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. Peel ...

Q: I grew a loofah plant in my garden this year. Before the first frost I picked them, all are a good size and they are still green. Should I let them turn brown before I attempt to peel them? — Jack ...

LoofahGrow.com provides gardeners and eco-conscious consumers with guides on growing, harvesting, and using natural loofah sponges as sustainable alternatives to synthetic products. LoofahGrow.com has ...

Before the first frost touches your garden with its icy fingers, harvest gourds and prepare them for their use as birdhouses, decorations, sponges, or whatever else is in store for this useful fruit.

Every year, the Art in the Park show in Julia Davis Park has some vendors selling large gourds, beautifully decorated as if they were clay pots. Some of us try to grow our own gourds, but find the ...

MCCANDLESS, Pa. — To most Americans, a luffa is a sponge. But to Wei Fei Chen, it’s a wonder gourd that’s fun to grow and good to eat. “You can saute or steam it with tofu, shrimp, chicken. Sometimes ...

Gourds are just plain fun–fun to grow and fun to look at. Growing into forms that resemble basketballs, caveman’s clubs, spoons, penguins, bottles, bananas, swans and apples, the fruit of these ...

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 ...