Aaron Newton over at Groovy Green has an excellent article about growing your own luffa sponge. Regardless of whether you spell it “luffa” or “loofah” — I’m of the latter persuasion — you probably didn’t know that they’re actually a vegetable akin to a zucchini (or courgette for my British and Kiwi friends). And I’ll bet you really didn’t know that to get the luffa “sponge”, you have to “milk” the seeds and flesh out of it, leaving the sponge-like fibrous material we all know and love as our favourite exfoliant.
Given he says that they require a long growing season of frost-free weather, I have to wonder if they’d do well in Hawaii. Growing them here is one thing, getting seeds through Agriculture is another…
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