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After making such a delicious and simple meal with my garden-fresh summer squash, I decided the trek home would again be worth my while in order to get my hands on another great veggie: white eggplant. While both kinds are great when grown in your own backyard, the white eggplant variety produces many more individual eggplants--the above 5 are just a quarter of what is on the plant on any given day.
Summer Squash in the Garden In the garden It doesn't get more local than your own backyard. If you're lucky enough to have a garden (or in my case, have parents who do), you can have a garden to table dinner whenever your veggies are in season. This weekend, the yellow summer squash was the perfect size for picking.