picked clean

it seems that weeding out the covering foliage on th eggplants didn't do them any favors...the three large fruits (?) that were there earlier in the week are gone...i did a quick, unscientific inventory and found nineteen stems that were left after fruits had been bitten ( torn?) off....the plants are still stubbornly flowering ( like the squash in my back yard ) but with the official advent of autumn i am not sanguine about any significant production this season...the tomatoes and peppers are doing fine however, and the potatoes are waiting to be dug...the long shot is the iuncg at about 8:30 this morning.