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Luffa cylindrica x10 seeds, known as loofah, vegetable sponge or running okra

Name: Luffa cylindrica x10 seeds, known as loofah, vegetable sponge or running okra
Brand: Fairy Flower Seeds
SKU: 00831
Price: 3.35 GBP
Availability: InStock

Store / Vegetable Seed

£3.35

In stock: 9 available

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Brand: Fairy Flower Seeds

The luffa sponge, also known as loofah, vegetable sponge or running okra is a quick-growing climbing plant producing fascinating fruits. Normally these rather resemble long, ridged cucumbers, slightly fatter at one end, and growing to 30 to 40 centimetres long, but these are the rarer smooth-skinned variety. Whilst the young fruits are edible, the mature ones can be boiled or dried to remove the flesh, revealing the intricate network of tough fibres that make it so useful in the bath! Grown up fences or trellis in a warm sheltered site or in a greenhouse they fruit in around 16 weeks from planting out

Climbing plant

Sowing the seeds
Sow at about the time of last frost, but can be started earlier as transplants, March - May, provided the seedlings are set out before becoming root-bound. Plants need rich soil full of organic matter. May need supporting. Supply abundant moisture and keep picking mature fruit.

Always use a good quality seed compost
Please note we pack the majority of our seeds by volume so the number of seeds indicated is only an approximation.
Seeds are packed into Glassine envelopes or zip-lock bags to keep them fresh
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