Can you believe you can grow luffas in your own home garden? I always thought the sponges came from the ocean, but they are actually gourds! Check out how to grow them yourself!
Plant your luffa seeds as early as possible. Luffas take a long time to grow and a lot of space. You need a sturdy trellis. We used our chain link fencing. Luffas don’t care if you have good soil or not, so plant away. For more detail about growing luffas and a link to how to get luffa seeds, click here to go to the blog.
Let the plants grow as long as you can indoors and then get them in the ground after the last danger of frost. For us in Oklahoma, that’s around April 15.
Care for the seedlings as they grow. Plant them outside when danger of frost is passed.
Baby luffas start forming on the vine. They are edible at this stage. They kind of taste like okra. The plants are beautiful as well as the flowers.
Luffas will grow to around a foot or more in length. Harvest them when they begin to turn yellow.
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