Editor’s note: Luffa plants will be sold at the VCMGA Spring Plant Sale on April 2. Last September at Rockport’s Hummingbird Celebration, my friend Janet pointed to a huge vine with long ...

There’s a remarkable vine that can provide you with a shady trellis, showy flowers, tasty fruit, and perfect bath sponges … and can be grown as a cash crop to boot! The plant–which is a native of the ...

Ridge gourd, also known as Luffa acutangula or angled luffa, is a vegetable commonly found in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. It is a member of the gourd family and is closely related to cucumber, ...

SEX habit in plants is known to be controlled by genetic factors, although subject to environmental iluctuations. Poole and Grimball1, working on the inheritance of certain new sex forms in Cucumis ...

What started off as a way to replace plastic in the showers — by getting rid of the ‘bath loofah’ with a natural product opened my eyes to the existence of yet another bio-wonder with immense ...