Veg Showcase Luffa (loofah)

[Kasalia]

Kasalia submitted a new Showcase Item:

Luffa (loofah)

Luffas mainly grown for the dry product, although can be eaten while small.

Look like large cucumbers when growing, and when mature turn a brown colour skin, in fact you would think they were rotting.

Skin is peeled back and dried, whereby you then shake a multitude of seeds out.

Can be bleached if they are too brown on the inside, but normally cream coloured.

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[OskarDoLittle]

Hmmmm, go figure...I always wondered what loofahs were!?

 

[Letsgokate]

Interesting, I use to use them a lot as a kid, always wondered how they grew.

 

[Liz&Marty]

Hmmmm, go figure...I always wondered what loofahs were!?

I thought they were some weird plant harvested from the sea... We definitely will try to grow some.

But Can they survive the Canadian winter?

 

[Mark]

Nice one @Kasalia - really good showcase item to review. Thanks for sharing

 

[Wanda]

I’m intrigued, I too thought they were some type of sea sponge. I use them sliced as a soap holder/dryer in the soap dish. When I need to scrub my hands it’s there ready to go. Edible you say? I’ll have to plant some when I get a support frame set up. I’m pretty jealous of Marc’s gourd tunnel and would like to build one of my own. I need to sort out a site for it first.