El Paso Hobby Gardening: Honey, that Tomatillo is Egglplant

Eggplant

I've been away from my blog for a few weeks now. Why my husband came into town for two weeks for the first week I was super busy cleaning the house and filling the refrigerator with food he likes. Then of course the send weeks he's in town. This week I have no more vacation so I'm forced to sit in front of the computer instead of enjoying his company because of work. I gave him a tour of the garden when he got here and saw if he could identify some of the plants I had in the garden. One of them was what I called Eggplant. He said it was tomatillo. But not recognizing what the eggplant looks like he just accepted what I told him.

A few days later we were out shopping at Costco. They had a wonderful variety of vegetables and herb plants for sale. One of the most impressive was the lavender with its purple flowers. They also had chives, tomato plants, cilantro, rosemary and other stuff. Then I spotted one plant that looked like one of the unknown mystery plants that I have which I planted from seed. Something I forgot to label and could not figure out what it was after all. Well that mystery plant looked a lot like the eggplant at the store. And I had an "OOOhhhhh" moment (light bulb). My mystery plant is eggplant. That means I had accidentally labeled some tomatillos as eggplant. No wonder it seemed that I hadn't planted any purple tomatillo. I had planted more because of that and now I have a lot of purple tomatillo plants. So yes my husband was right. That was tomatillo.