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@rumblebee.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 3:32 PM

Invite elegant and classic Rosa Bianca to your garden next year. Watch her blow your mind 🤯! #gardening #vegetables #heirloomvegetables 🌱 #zone5bgardening

Photo of healthy, no-worse-for-the-wear, heirloom Rosa Bianca eggplant. There is visible flea beetle leaf damage yet recovery and vigorous new growth is evident. Multiple young fruit are visible.

Rosa Bianca continues to be a crowd pleaser for bees visiting new flowers. When harvesting, it's either duck the bees during the day or frantically flail at mosquitoes later on.

In this photo, flea beetle damage and heat stress are evident. However, the plant shows remarkable resilience. Larger fruit is seen along with newly forming fruit. Leafy growth continues.

Opinion:
Rosa Bianca, in my Zone 5b, erratic, unpredictable, sometimes damaging weather, contines to thrive. For me, it out performs 'standard' Black Beauty in every way. I'm surprised each time I make my way back to her corner, small raised bed and see at least 3 or 4 more eggplants ready to go, with more on the vine. I just have 5 plants. I think she's a bit of a show off.

She is a beauty!

@rumblebee.bsky.social Sep 6, 2026, 2:25 PM

Yesterday's picking. Today's processing. #gardening 🌱 #heirloomtomatoes #heirloomvegetables #cannimg

Colorful haul of various heirloom tomatoes - Mortgage Lifter, Black Krim, Opalka, Abraham Lincoln, Arkansas Traveler, Boxcar Willie, Giant Crimson; Rosa Bianca and Black Beauty eggplants; Melrose, Sweet Banana, Big Jim peppers.

Tomatoes waitimg to be made into my gramma's chili sauce condiment, sweet and savory. More cowboy candy or some pickled peppers. The eggplant? Thick slices, breaded, air fried golden and crispy, with choice of dippin' sauces.

Partially seen are a couple blue buckets sharing the kitchen table with their haul.