The best place to get luffa seeds is your own garden, once you grow your first crop of luffa gourds. But if you’re new to ...

Growing your own saves money, time, and wasted resources. Gardener shares little-known produce item you can effortlessly grow ...

You’ve probably had or used a loofah sponge in your life, whether in the bath or for cleaning around the house. But did you know it was made from a vegetable? While much of the marketing of ...

You Can Grow Your Own Loofah Sponges—Here’s What to Do with Them. Sophia Beams. January 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM. ... Remove the seeds by shaking them out of the top or bottom of the squash.

Loofah plants can grow up to 30 feet high, so once you’re ready to plant outside, you’ll need something sturdy for the plant vines to grasp onto, like a chain link fence.

Today, the five-acre farm is planted with about 1,000 luffa plants, all grown in greenhouses. All the luffas at the farm are grown from heirloom seeds. The farm saves seeds from the best crop of each ...

The loofah fruit can be eaten, but only in its earlier stages of life, when it is young, tender and about 4 inches long. What the loofah lacks in long-lasting edible tenderness, it makes up for in ...

Luffa seeds can take a few weeks to germinate so this method works well as you know your seeds have sprouted before planting, she says. Plant seeds 1 inch deep in rich soil.

Grow your own bath sponge! Luffa gourds are the familiar bath sponge. Growing your own will keep you entertained all growing season and are great fun for a long time after they are harvested.

Virginia Home Grown. Clippings: Specialty Gardens. Clip: Season 23 Episode 8 | 26m 46s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Learn how to grow tea trees and luffa plants! Peggy Singlemann visits Mark ...

Editor’s note: Luffa plants will be sold at the VCMGA Spring Plant Sale on April 2. Last September at Rockport’s Hummingbird Celebration, my friend Janet pointed to a huge vine with long ...

Q. Two years ago my daughter planted some loofah/luffa seeds. Before you know it they were all over the yard, the pear tree, and headed over the roof of the house before the frost got to it. She ma… ...