Almost 10 years ago I was return a mail boat of “ loofah ” come . I planted them and ended up with hard - ridged loofahs that were almost completely out of the question to clean house for exercise as leech / scrubbers .
The netting was good at heart … but getting the skins off ? No summons worked . I tried boiling water system , permit them decompose , dry , wait until they were dry on the vine , picking them early , scraping with a knife … nothing work .
I did some more enquiry and observe that my “ loofahs ” were n’t loofa . I was in reality growing slant gourds .
This is an easy mistake . Both are loofahs … but only one is honest for parazoan - making . If you ’re growing angle gourd for sponges , you ’ll be quite frustrated .
I think I hadLuffa aegyptiaca … whereas I hadLuffa acutangula .
After get them once in Tennessee and once in Florida , I gave up .
The thing is , slant gourd do n’t give up as easy as I do . I threw some old ones in the compost pile in my food forest … and lookie here :
They ’re growing themselves !
Since slant calabash are very persistent despite the heat and humidness , I decided to try the young fruits and see if they were tasty . The aroma has put me off in the yesteryear : they have this rank green odor when the fruit and foliage are conk out – yet to my surprisal , the cooked young fruit are delectable and sweet … though they really do look strange .
They remind me of the Hindenburg .
The flavor : slant gourds taste like the best of a zucchini mixed with a cucumber . Very good !
They ’re really good sauteed , incidentally .
Since I have n’t done well with either zucchini or Cucumis sativus during Florida ’s summer , I consider that growing angle calabash will dally a big part in my future gardening plans . Since I ’ve had them ego - cum more than once , it may just be that I can disperse the ejaculate here and there and let them find their own way in the food for thought forest . That ’s what they ’re doing this year , so why not ?
Now that I ’ve taste them and detect them delicious , angle gourds now get the fleeceable light to ramble as far as they ’d like .
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