March 11, 2010

#22 Grow Eggplants in a garden under the sea

There's a water shortage on Bequia right now, so we thought it would be the perfect time to try growing eggplants in a garden under the sea, cuz there's always plenty of water there.

After carefully planting and monitoring them, today they were finally ripe for picking... so we headed over to our underwater garden to get us some eggplants!


The eggplants were ready for picking


We sent out the scout dog to make sure they were ripe enough



And of course we used the standard method for sea-eggplant harvesting: child labor!



The dog then had to be harvested too, of course.


We ended up making a delicious fried sea-eggplant and mango meal. Mmmm. And we didn't even need to add salt.


Here's the video of the preparations, shot at the amazing abandoned Plantation House hotel, with a view on Port Elizabeth.

1 comment:

Me said...

how much does it cost to get some child/dog labor from Bequia? I need some help in the office... like growing aubergins behind the monitor of my computer=))