Beginner Gardening: Gourds: When is a luffa ready to be harvested?, 1 by roadrunner

roadrunner wrote:
Dave & Morph....the harvesting of my louffa was forced on me...I went out one evening and saw that all the vines were totally stripped bare...grasshoppers I would guess...so I decided to bring 3 of them in...and get the rest in the next morning.

Here is how 4 of them looked the next morning!!! I have peeled the outter coat off of the ones that were bitten, they are drying fine. I think Javalinas got them. Jo