Why grow aubergines ? they are cheap to buy and taste shit? 

I've got a big vegetable patch... I'm gardening my way through the pandemic...

I know but grow stuff that is amazing to eat fresh or expensive... 

fresh peas are AMAZING for example. 

maybe fresh aubergines 

my peas are a disaster... I planted about 100 and have only about 20... nothing in the second sowing despite using a fresh pack... peas and beans aren't doing well here....

I'm doing a greenhouse sowing tomorrow with more expensive compost... fingers crossed...

my allotment is an acre so I'm not constrained with what to grow...

Ants are fucking up my apples.

on your original query, I had a complex hernia operation a few years back and my nads swelled up like aubergines. There was a lot of heat so I can confirm that this does create large ones.

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less disgustingly

- my broad beans are doing well this year.

- tomatoes in tubs of home compost are huge whereas the ones in the raised beds are smaller and struggling more. (same variety). . Onions in one bed are twice the size of the other, but one bed is heavy with compost and the other not because things like carrots aren't meant to be composted b because it makes them split and they like a weak sandy soil.Just shows what a decent compost delivers.

- lettuces doing well this year and courgettes too.  the autumn /winter brassicas like cabbage and cav. nero are quite advanced.

My cos lettuces in coke bottles are growing fast.. but the icebergs are like limp dishrags 

bok choy and wombok are thundering ahead and all my herbs are fab. Except for the thyme which just hasn’t really ever gotten going. 
 

I know nothing about aubergines of any kind and agree with whomever up there said they are disgusting. The only thing they are good for is baba ganoush. 

Aubergines are amazing and versatile, but need some humidity so greenhouse growing is best.

as you know Scylla... I like baba gannoush :)