Knitting a vegetable garden

So, my son loves his vegetables... always has! His favorite baby food was "squacolli" a combination of butternut squash and broccoli. He's recently developed an obsession with eggplants - thanks to his pal Curious George. In an episode (Seed Trouble), George plants a rooftop garden with tomatoes, peppers, corn, eggplants, watermelon and cucumbers.

After watching that episode, my son begged his for an eggplant - which he got. It was a monster of an eggplant! I thought it was an umbrella when Owen showed me the bag. He wanted to eat it, and did take a bite of the raw eggplant - not too tasty. So I fixed him Eggplant Parmesan - which he refused to eat. When I asked him why he didn't want it, he told me I killed and cooked the eggplant. *sigh*

For the next few days, he continued to ask for the eggplant, even going to the fridge to get an egg so he could plant it and get an eggplant. I think he got that from George as well, but it does sort of make sense... Finally I gave in and knitted him his very own eggplant - one that I couldn't kill and cook!!  Next up will be corn, followed by pepper...