QUESTION: I'm trying to grow luffa gourds for the sponges, but the flowers keep falling off without making fruit. -- W. H.

The time for harvesting luffa sponges tends to come from late fall onwards and there are a few tell-tale signs they are ready to pick. The signs to look for include the color and weight of the fruits.

An annual, subtropical vine in the Cucurbitaceae family, luffa is a lush plant with large leaves, buttery yellow flowers, and fruit that looks like giant, 2-foot-long cucumbers. The young, edible ...

Luffa grown in the U.S., like the ones from The Luffa Farm, don’t have to be treated with anything since they’re not imported from overseas. They just get a quick rinse before they’re sold.

Like most squashes, the luffa is a vine with three-lobed leaves 7.5 to 20 centimeters across – though some squashes have leaf’s twice this size. The flowers are bright yellow. Oblong or cylindrical, ...

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According Selbak, the piece integrated luffa's breathable quality, while bringing natural materials into a home. "The plant fibres are durable and biodegradable, allowing both air and light to ...

LEXINGTON, S.C. — Did you know luffa, that scrubber you use in the shower, is a vegetable? Turns out you can grow it here in South Carolina, and you can even eat it when it's 4 - 6 inches long ...

So Lara, that, to me, is the smallest luffa I've ever seen. >>It is. It's edible at this size, but that's not what we really want. If we're here to process luffa into sponges, then we had to wait ...

Harvesting luffa fruits. By June, yellow flowers and some tiny fruit will likely have begun to appear. These will develop into larger green fruits by August - ours were about 20 centimetres long. The ...