A little plant class, Luffa or Loofah 101

What's a Luffa?

Natural sponge that grows as a gourd looking fruit on green vines. Once fully grown and dried you can harvest and clean off skin and dump out the many seeds and you have a sponge.

You can see how the bottom of the gourd has a cap that pops off once driven and the seeds fall out naturally.

Can be an invasive plant but no worries here in the desert. Just quit watering and itll die off. My first harvest are small but grew about 12 and half a lot more seeds now.

Great for body scrub as well as pots and pans. Naturally grown sponge with hemp soaps and shampoos to stay clean while keeping the environment clean.

Everyone that comes to the ranch gets their own new sponge 😉