I thought I'd update this since it's still on the first page. These were not, in fact, happy little eggplant babies. They are Chinese Lanterns, and they're INVASIVE. I got some free year before last, with some tomato plants. I planted them, they didn't do anything, I forgot about them. Then last year, at the end of the year, my sister pulled out one of these from her garden bed (I happily shared my "eggplants" with her), and it had the papery little lantern thing. Then I remembered planting them. I still didn't know they were invasive until this year, when a third of my garden bed and 1/4 of hers was these stupid things.
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