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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

How to Grow Luffa Gourds

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

One of Kevin’s favorite crops to grow is the luffa…although not without struggles! Regine shares some choice tips on growing luffa you may not have heard before. Connect With Regine Norman: Regine Norman is the founder of Asian Garden 2 Table, where she introduces Asian vegetables to people, sells seeds, and provides growing and cooking tips. Asian Garden 2 Table YouTube Instagram Facebook Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You all know that loofah gourds are a crop that I have been obsessed with for I would

0:18.7

say maybe three years or so and if you've watched our YouTube channel you know that I've

0:23.2

had my share of failures with them whether that be someone one time just ripped it out

0:28.2

of the soil because I was in a front yard garden they just took it out so that was

0:32.1

heartbreaking but other times just mistakes growing and so I'm really happy

0:36.2

regime to have you back on regime from Asian Garden to table because I

0:40.5

suspect you have a better idea on how to grow loofah gourds than I do being

0:45.4

that this is what you talk about and teach so you know maybe I can share some of

0:48.9

my problems that I've had but I'm curious you know what are your techniques

0:52.7

for growing loofah that have worked well for you yeah loofah is actually in

1:02.0

all the vegetable that grow there I wouldn't say they're difficult to grow I

1:08.4

would say they medium difficulty I would say medium difficulty first of all you

1:15.1

need to be you need to choose the right season because loofah is warm to

1:20.5

hot weather vegetable you cannot grow loofah if it's the temperature is lower

1:26.8

than 50 degree you need to wait for the weather warm enough to grow loofah

1:34.1

it's very important to choose the right season for some area like in the in the

1:40.2

north you probably have very short warm weather season so you need to if you

1:46.2

want to start the seed early you need to have a green house or even indoor and

1:51.9

have some good lighting because a lot of people start seeing indoor they never

1:56.0

they don't have good lighting so they plan they don't grow healthy so you need

2:00.2

to have warm weather warm temperature in order to start loofah seed and would

2:06.8

you say Regina for those in because this is a question I get a lot that you're

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