It always surprises me to see how young eggplants look. Nothing at all like how they look when ripe and ready to go!
I have never been very good at growing things. I have a small garden in my tiny back yard, where I grow various things. My pepper plants do just fine on their own, but the herbs have a lot of trouble. I have a large amount of mint growing, which always starts out amazing, then when the leaves get very large and mature, I will come out in the morning and every single leaf will have been eaten by bugs.
It seems like the bugs all come at once in the night then go away by morning.