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 ...

Try this sustainable alternative to store-bought sponges.Did you know your bathroom loofah might have grown from a plant? Unlike large plastic loofahs, natural luffas aren’t manmade at all—they’re ...

How to Grow Luffa. Because luffa gourds are left to mature and dry on the vine, they need a long growing season (nearly 200 frost-free days in a row). Gardeners north of Zone 8 can achieve this by ...

Fortunately, luffa farmer Deanne Coon was willing to offer both, which is how The Luffa Farm was born in 1998 after growing the plant as part of a friend’s biology class experiment and then ...

Many vegetable gardeners look for new crops or new varieties of crops they have experience growing to add to their garden. And this is the time of year when gardeners start to think about how they ...

Growing luffa, dipper and bottle gourds on a trellis will assure that these gourds will grow straight. Gourds should be fertilized with a complete fertilizer at planting and again when the vines ...

Did you know your bathroom loofah might have grown from a plant? Unlike large plastic loofahs, natural luffas aren’t manmade at all—they’re actually made from dried gourds.That’s also how ...