Grow your own bath sponge! Luffa gourds are the familiar bath sponge. Growing your own will keep you entertained all growing season and are great fun for a long time after they are harvested. Peel ...

Shaped like an oversized apple, these hard-shelled gourds (Lagenaria siceraria) grow six to eight inches tall and four to six inches across. In India, young fruit is added to curries. The skin is ...

The gourd family is very popular during the summer season. From bottle gourds and bitter gourds, to cucumbers and Armenian cucumbers, gourds are often regarded as a bumper crop at this time of the ...

Kraft grows a luffa plant in her front yard in Knoxville. (Photo: Amy Smotherman Burgess) Rachel Kraft grows a luffa plant in her front yard. The gourd type plant are edible, if harvested early, or ...

Are you trying to grow sponge gourds and they never get big enough, before frost, to form the tough sponges inside? Sponge gourds (also called luffa, bottle gourds or dishrag gourds) require a fairly ...

It’s that time of year when visions of Halloween conjure up all kinds of ghoulish-looking gourds! While they are traditional decor at Halloween and Thanksgiving, gourds aren’t just for decoration.

A simple pork-tofu dish shows off the characteristics of nabera, or sponge gourd. Because it could be difficult for shoppers to track down this shop-with-no-name, Yoshimoto tried the more widely ...

Dear Jean: You are growing cucuzzi gourd, Lagenaria siceraria. They're pretty big, but very edible. This one is well over a 18 inches long, and will keep growing till it's three feet or more. At that ...

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