OUR FIRST LUFFA GOURD
A big thanks to @em3 for this one!
While I definitely planted these later than intended this year, it looks like we will still be getting a harvest! Thanks so much for the seeds @em3!
THE FIRST LUFFA GOURD IS GROWING
In the video above, I show off our first luffa gourd growing in the garden. I guess that at this stage, people actually eat these gourds and use them as a food source, but we will be going for the fully mature gourd and hoping to make our own luffas.
This trellis over the pathway between the raised beds is where I planted out luffa gourds. We had been hoping to try growing some of these for years now, and after receiving some seeds from @em3 we finally gave it a go. To grow your own, natural sponges or body scrubs is something that is right up our alley. We hope to incorporate some into our soap making as we learn that craft too, just like @beatitudes8 has done before.
With many more flowers growing on the vines, we hope for many more gourds this year. Perhaps we will even try eating a few. Have you ever grown luffa gourds? If so, how did they work out for you?
As always, I'm @papa-pepper and here's the proof:
proof-of-lufffa-gourd
Until next time…
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I planted some of these this past year also... but... I didn't pinch off the first blooms/flowers (which apparently are the male ones) and hence... mine did NOT bloom and develop into beautiful gourds.
I grew these so I could add them to my homemade soap recipes... NEXT YEAR I shall prevail with this one!
P.S.- plus you've given me some ideas about making my own trellis for the gourds... my luffa gourd vines grew up the shed (which is 10 feet tall) so they definitely need room to grow up.
@papa-pepper all I could think about when I saw this Post Title was the Movie Caddyshack......................
OH no! Not like that!!!!
They look wonderfully healthy plants and although I have never grown them they do grow wild here in Costs Rica so it’s possible to harvest a luffa on a hill walk which is rather nice - wild and free has to be my ultimate favourite - foraging for luffas haha whatever next! I hope you are blessed with a bumper crop with all those little peppers to wash down the more luffas the better - I hadnt thought of eating them while young and tender but I guess for sure we could - thanks for another wonderfullunch inspiring video
Wow! Foraging for wild luffas? That sounds like a great video idea, like a mini documentary or something. Way cool!
Looking fresh .
I can still remember when I found out that loofa was a gourde and not from some sort of sea creature. I was like "ah...ok."
I was 21.
I've always wanted to grow them since.
LOL - Nice GIF
Healthy plants, I like it.
They look very similar to what I call cucumber, don't no much about this plant, can you eat it.
At think point they are, but eventually the center becomes very fibrous like a tough sponge and people use them to scrub themselves in the bath or shower. You can eat them when they are small though.
That is quite interesting using a plant to scrub yourself, must be healthy.
Yes your right bro! Dried Cucumbers use as sponge for bathing merely use here in RP
I have never heard of luffa gourds before @papa-pepper. and as a chef you would have thought that I would have. they look like these sponges we get here in the uk for our bathroom. So I am guessing they taste a little like cucumber or pickles or something?
inlighten me if i am wrong, i'd like to know :D
Not sure what they taste like, but they do use them as bathroom sponges.
so they will be what we have. that is ace how it is a vegetable and a sponge lol. I might try it while in the bath :D
I have never tried eating them, only used them in soaps and as body scrubbers. I usually have plenty of these to go around...
Magic eight ball says outlook is good.