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 ...

A. If seed isn't available at your local garden center, order luffa from Park Seed, 1 Parkton Ave., Greenwood, S.C. 29649; 800-845-3369; www.parkseed.com. Also called Chinese okra, vegetable sponge ...

MCCANDLESS, Pa. — To most Americans, a luffa is a sponge. But to Wei Fei Chen, it’s a wonder gourd that’s fun to grow and good to eat. “You can saute or steam it with tofu, shrimp, chicken. Sometimes ...

I was invited to attend the Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello as a member of the press this past weekend and despite the sweltering heat, I managed to learn a thing or twenty. As I walked ...

Deanne Coon’s career started with a couple of mystery seeds. The then-hobby farmer, growing on the Central Coast of California, planted the seeds with a friend, curious to see what they would bloom ...