Luffa gourds, also spelt as loofahs, are a versatile vegetable that you can grow in your kitchen garden. These gourds belong to the same family as cucumbers and can get quite big if provided ...

Luffa gourds are grown predominantly to be natural and sustainable sponges, however, the young fruits can also be harvested ...

Gourd is the common name for a group of vining plants in the cucurbit family, which includes other plants such as squashes, ...

Lagenaria gourds produce white flowers that bloom at night. The resulting fruits are light green at maturity and turn to tan or brown as they dry. Luffa gourds produce yellow flowers that bloom ...

Nubbly, bubbly, and slightly homely, some gourds aren’t good to eat but make perfect seasonal decorations for autumn ...

so allow them space to spread or use a trellis to allow gourd plants to grow vertically. Growing luffa, dipper and bottle gourds on a trellis will assure that these gourds will grow straight.

Season the broth with salt, MSG, chicken powder, and chicken stock to your liking. The tomato broth is now complete. Pour the simmered tomato broth into another pot. Add the prepared shrimp paste ...

One bite is all it takes to get hooked on soup dumplings.  Within two bites, a delicate bundle of tender meat and piping-hot broth will explode in your mouth — and on Oct. 6, hundreds of dumpling ...

Vegetable prices are skyrocketing across Dhaka, with ripe tomatoes now priced as high as Tk 280 per kg, while most other ...

Natural loofah sponges actually come from the fruits of vine-growing Luffa plants. These plants are part of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) making them relatives of watermelons, cucumbers and ...

Kamloops gardener Naomi Spendiff planted watermelon seeds this year of an unusual variety, a melon called orangeglo. The ...

Yet our Minister of the Interior just visited the island with a group of officials, and they had a nice lunch, including chicken, loofah gourds, bitter melons, etc., all locally raised or grown ...