Beginner Gardening: 2015 Grow-Along Challenge: Squash Wars - Roll Call!, 1 by Lily_love

Lily_love wrote:
The calabash, emcars, are more like zukes with tougher outer skin. They're more popular in oriental cuisine than here in the States. The fruit can be pick when young (the smaller one of the two picture above). The succulent inner fruit then can be cubed or diced for stir fry or soup making.

How do I use the Luffa? Just as Calabash, the young luffa can be sliced, diced, and cook when young. I have saved smooth skin luffa to very ripe, and make sponge out of the dried inside, in fact, I've some that I use in my kitchen for pots and pans scrubbing. I'll post some picture of the sponges tomorrow.

Luffa I don't think will cross pollinate with anything else in the family. I've different type of luffas in my garden; I think the seed company has mistakenly mixed the seeds of different species in the package that I bought.