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Kaye Kittrell | Late Bloomer Urban Organic Garden Show I always say I’m a late bloomer!! I love your loofa show I have three acres and I’m about to get busy
@@claireabailey Thank you, Claire! The outtakes were part of the form of my original show. I wanted to leave folks with a chuckle. I try to keep it real in my garden vlogs today also. You will see a humorous bit at the end of today's Blueberry Compote video.
Thank you, B B for watching! I'm trying loofa again this year for the purpose of eating it. We shall see if I succeed in getting to with all this June gloomy cool weather.
I would have never in a million years tought that this grew from a plant, why we learn something new everyday. Very interesting video thanks for posting
@@Latebloomershow oh my gosh! Do a seed giveaway! Unless of course you have plans for them or are selling them. This is my first time watching your channel and this is fascinating!
«Mom, I can’t exfoliate until my loofah has finished growing!» «Dear child, I will make you a body scrubber from all the onion nets I have been saving, that’ll do the job for now!» ☺️
My son and I raised those also and also made homemade soap and gave out soap and a Loofa to the girls in the family for Christmas. He was so proud to make something himself
Yes, indeed! There's nothing like homemade. I made another batch of my calendula, Sweet Annie, lavender skin balm yesterday. I gave two as gifts on Sunday, so I needed to make another batch. It's so easy and so good for the skin.
My childhood was in the Mideast, we had loofah plants all over our front yard. They were beautiful. We had loofah plants, black fig trees, a palm tree, pomegranate trees, orange and apple trees , castor seeds trees, olive trees and ziziphus spina (buckthorns). I do miss having big yard with good trees.
This is really wholesome. It made me feel like I was gardening with a grandma I never had. Thank you so much for your incredibly informative and calming content. Your kind spirit shines through your lovely garden!
What's wierd is my grandma and I never hardened together, she had some problems so she couldn't walk, but if I had known her earlier in life we would have, she was sorta a hedgwitch sort so you know she had one hell of a garden in her day, she transformed the neighbhood with her plants, they would pop up for miles arround and I actually lived a while from their house and could still see the descents of her sweet peas growing in my yard (they grew in rows for whatever reason, all of them in east to west rows) sorry tangent but long post short this video warmed me inside in a way that I haven't felt since she passed
Many called 'loofah' are man made and can be purchased for a lower cost. When a popular item really takes off, it's not uncommon for baby boomers to afix the name of the most popular brand to every item of the sort. For example, calling all vacuum cleaners 'hoovers'. Some might be loofah, but it'll usually be the dearer ones. :)
Can we just talk about how beautiful she is for a second! I mean she has such a beautiful natural beauty, and I love her hair how it's such a light blonde color. Very gorgeous lady!😊😊😊
and she is so wholesome, I mean look at my pfp and tell mr the last time you think I felt warm inside lmao but she warmed my cold shrivelled goth emt heart
Love you!!! You haven't tuned in to my livestream in a few, hope to hear from you soon! I will live vicariously through you. Thanks for the lovely comment. Happy Holidays!❤
Kaye Kittrell | Late Bloomer Urban Organic Garden Show : what was the appropriate required frostless days to grow the loofa plant? I live in northern Ontario Canada, I am sure it is wishful thinking, but I had to ask. Great video, I was sure this was a sea plant, we learn something new every day.
You are so right! I'm happy that YT recommended my video and I heard from you. I'm growing loofa again this year, this time to try some of the recipes for eating the young ones. I hope you find your way back to my channel!
Been growing this for years we cut it young and egg and batter it then fry it like okra. Has a nutty taste to it. As it ages the taste changes. Have had loofah from it as well.
Loufa seeds originally came from Syria ..and they were used for bathing thousands of years ,the French took lots of seeds for some fruits,veg.to grow and this is how it started in EUR.
I was looking for a comment like this because my grandmas would do this too back in the day lol. Whenever my parents visit Latakia, they bring back some loufas with them, I like them better than the factory made ones
I just saw this video and was blown away as I too thought loofa was some kind of seaweed and my birthday is feb11 too so I was about to write a comment and what you wrote here was in my mind @thyartissabarina what a coincidence♒️
I’m slowly learning new alternatives than just going out and buying new things. I’m really starting to gain an appreciation for making your own things and secondhand things This is beautiful and way to go showing how awesome earth can be! ❤️
Wonderful comment. I am in the same boat, learning how little we truly need, and how the earth truly provides for us in abundance. Making things to use in the home feels so fulfilling. Better than chasing a dollar for sure. All the best.
Wonderful! I only tried it in one dish. Should have done more but was so eager for the sponges. You can see we tried to find a young one, also tried in stores, but very hard to find here. ua-cam.com/video/1ModFf3Ed1c/v-deo.html
I remember that my grandma used to grow lots of loofas in Vietnam during summer. We loved eating them for the texture and fragrance, and if there were any loofas hidden under the leaf and became way too old to make food. We used them for sponges. Such a throwback to watch the video. Thanks for sharing.
The little boy is the cutest little cutie and is a true highlight of the video, he loved the cookie before he tried it because he has already tasted of your love for him , which is sweet and maternal 💞
You can slide them into 1/2 inch thick and stir fry with garlic and mushroom, add some oyster sauce, if not just some salt will work too. That’s how I eat my loofa. Growing up in Vietnam, back in the 90s people use loofa as sponges to wash dishes, I haven’t seen it for years but I’m happy that I found your video today, bring back good memory. I really enjoy your video. Thank you ;)
In Mexico they use a very scratchy type of loofa to scrub the dirt off you when you shower. I think some Americans have loofas but most are just plastic
I'm Sundanese from West Java, I grew up with this, We call it "Emes", my mum used to scrub me with this, we soak it and soap it then rubbing it to scrub my body, she still use it, I do it sometimes
My paternal grandma use to grow luffa in her backyard and I as a kid was so amazed with the sponge. I love your little help Zach. He is so adorable. Loved your video.
Well, you can also buy synthetic loofah. My grandfather used natural loofah but it had to be taken care and it also decomposes with time. We eat the plants as vegetables, so stopped making loofah.
Very true! And the body, especially nice on the feet. I sold a bunch of them at a handmade bazaar in 2017. Still have a dozen of them. Have not had any success getting loofa started since my first try. Please subscribe and tune in for my next livestream on Sunday morning, 3/17, at 10:00 AM PST if you can. I have a nice community that joins.
I love the smell of loofah flowers. It is one of the best when you have many plants the fragrance in the evening is nice. We eat them in soups and stir fry which is sweet and has a slight crunch. I have the ones with the ridges.
You are such a great storyteller. Not only are you giving us great gardening info, but your voice is so tender and soothing. I'm going to have to try some luffa in my garden.
I have a sinking suspicion that this video showed up form watching soap making videos, however I was pleasantly surprised seeing this on my dash! A very relaxing and welcoming atmosphere to your video 😊
I know. I miss out a lot, so busy making content and growing a garden, there is little time to cook. I'd love to try it again. I didn't succeed in getting vines last year. I hope you are enjoying my videos! Another workday video tomorrow!
We cook them in India as well. We make a variety of dishes based on which part of the country we are from. Also called ridge gourd, they’re very easy to digest and has a cooling effect.
My seedlings are leggy and can’t support the leaves. Can I sucker off the new leave and just keep the 2 bigger ones? My other seedlings droop over and died. Thank you for your consideration.
Why not directly buy the loofah seeds online? I recommend one bean for all of you, oil bean, in Chinese ,it is 东北油豆角. This is its image: images.app.goo.gl/Hk1Wj4s7ucm4RV576 . It is nearly 30cm long, 3cm wide . And very easy to get cooked. It is the best bean I met in my life. You can find its seed in alibaba website I think. Try this oil beans, they are super great beans.
I garden (vegetable) and I worked in a bathing goods store for years...I HAD NO CLUE WHERE LOOFA CAME FROM!Thank you so much for the informative video.
My wife planted 7 seeds last year. We got over 70 usable loofah sponges. This year we have plans to plant them under trees, and along fence lines. Bees love them so much! And... sponges! We'll try eating the small ones in stir fry this year. :) Peace and gardens.
Luffa gourd is perfectly edible when young. Also, you can cut open a branch and use a bottle to slowly collect juice coming out of the cut opening - it is probably the best facial toner you can have!
I had NO clue loofas were grown like this! 🌈🌠 the more ya know.. I’m obsessed with gardening. I started with propagating arrowheads. I’ve moved onto flowers and now I’m trying peppers and melons. I cannot wait to try this. Thank you!
That's fantastic! I'm excited for you. Please let me know how your gardening goes. There is lots to learn from my playlists. I hope you check them out. ❣💗
In the Phillipines we call luffa as patola it is known as a vegetable in our country, we usually eat this veggie and sometimes we use to stir fry it with other veggies or make a soup together with other veggies
Oh, I know and wish I had some of that right now! Thank for watching! I hope you subscribed and are enjoying my videos! Another workday video tomorrow!
WAIT A MINUTE!!!! Lol...Using loofahs all my life and had absolutely no idea that they grew on vines... Or that they "grew" at all... Wow. I love learning new things! Thank you so much for sharing.
Growing up we had these growing everywhere in our front yard. Veins back memories. We had figs, pomegranates, olives, palm tree and these loofa plants.
My wife is Chinese and our six loofah plants have provided many meals for her this summer. This was my first year to grow loofah, and we have about eight of the giant ones still on the vine. I didn`t have a clue how to go from the gourd to the scrubber, so your video has been great to show me how to do so. Will go out today and shake a few of the more mature ones to see if they rattle. Thanks!
In India Tamil Nadu we call it as peerkangai ridge gaurd we cook and eat it yummy recipes...My grandma use the sponge for dishwashing scrub and also for bathing.. Sorry for my English
Your English is very good! I'm growing them again this year for the purpose of eating them. So many have left mouthwatering descriptions of how they eat it. I can't wait.
so glad i was recommended this video...kaye, you have a very warm presence and i loved learning about loofah from you! excited to watch your other videos ☺️
Chines wisteria is invasive. If you still want to try wisteria I would go for the less invasive species. PS. We had a wisteria and it was the most beautiful bush you could think of but it was too close to the well and we cut it down two or three years ago, we are still cutting sprouts from where it was.
In my Indian household, we only use this as a loofa. Even my great grandfathers used them. And the fruit is delicious to eat as well. My favourite is to have them fried in chickpea flour batter. Yum yum. 😋
I love cook loufa soup with peeled shrimps chopped, amaranth leaves chopped and some leaves of hot pepper ... Good smelt and good taste , we eat soup with rice.... Flowers can add to soup or stir fry with peeled shrimps , too .
OH MY!! That sounds wonderful!! I wish you could come and cook that for me. My friend Jacq and I tried to cook it when she was visiting but the loofas were too far along: ua-cam.com/video/1ModFf3Ed1c/v-deo.html
"leaves of hot pepper"? Do you mean that you can also cook the leaves of the hot pepper plant? I never knew that. What a great piece of information. THANKS.
Thank you for adding bloopers at the end. It was nice to see more of your personality shine through as I learned to grow loofah with you. Thanks for the video. My seeds are on the way.
Wonderful! Everything changed on YT in 2016 when I made this video, and now I don't have the time to add bloopers and put all the extras in each video trying to upload several a week. Back then, I did two a month! Hope you visit my channel again here in Tennessee.
Dear goodness... This is amazing. First learning that this was a plant. And then learning you can cook, then eat bath sponges before they become bath sponges. You've earned a sub thanks to this vid.
I moved to Puerto Rico 26 years ago and there was life growing wild up the hill from my house. One of my husband's uncle bought it to me and I used it as gifts for my family at Christmas. I haven't seen it anymore but would love to try it again. Thank you for sharing.
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Loofah is also can be eaten by boiling young one very sweet and delicious... Please try it once
Kaye Kittrell | Late Bloomer Urban Organic Garden Show I love the outtakes.
Wooow👌👌😍👏👌👍💚i want to grow my own
Kaye Kittrell | Late Bloomer Urban Organic Garden Show I always say I’m a late bloomer!! I love your loofa show I have three acres and I’m about to get busy
Do you sell the loofa seeds?
No idea how I ended up here, and I've never really watched content like this. But I'm damn interested.
The outtakes at the end are the best. Keeping it real.
B B
Same!
B B BIG FACTS
@@claireabailey Thank you, Claire! The outtakes were part of the form of my original show. I wanted to leave folks with a chuckle. I try to keep it real in my garden vlogs today also. You will see a humorous bit at the end of today's Blueberry Compote video.
Thank you, B B for watching! I'm trying loofa again this year for the purpose of eating it. We shall see if I succeed in getting to with all this June gloomy cool weather.
I would have never in a million years tought that this grew from a plant, why we learn something new everyday. Very interesting video thanks for posting
I felt the same amazement! Thanks for watching and please tune in to my livestream on Sunday at 10AM PST and join the conversation!
They taste sooooo good too!
Its a staple food for many asian countrirs
My parents grow them every summer. ^_^ and they taste good!
@@Latebloomershow oh my gosh! Do a seed giveaway! Unless of course you have plans for them or are selling them. This is my first time watching your channel and this is fascinating!
This is the most wholesome thing I've seen all day
Me and the boys watching late bloomers
Thank you!!
I agree
Stay away from the bad news
@@reccocon3442wdym?
*“Mum I can’t have a shower until my loofah finishes growing and is ready to harvest”*
LOL!
Hahah, so true and funny!
Yeah and this is why I don't got seeds yet I'm still waiting for my son to bring me some 😂😂😂😂😂
«Mom, I can’t exfoliate until my loofah has finished growing!» «Dear child, I will make you a body scrubber from all the onion nets I have been saving, that’ll do the job for now!» ☺️
We need to protect this woman at all costs.
What a enlightening yet random thing to show up in my feed!
I'm grateful is getting some of my content out there. Thank you for watching!!
Same, i really did thought the came from the sea
I was today years old when i found out that luffa's come from a plant
Wonderful! I'm glad I was the one to enlighten you! Please come back to my channel for more "edutainment." 💗❤
@@Latebloomershow you enlightened me also! This just popped up in my recommendations and I'm not disappointed. Take care, god bless.
What are luffas? I don't know how I got here
Me too! You have four months on me, lol
Me too! I was positive that it came from the sea to the point of being obnoxious about it, lol!!
My son and I raised those also and also made homemade soap and gave out soap and a Loofa to the girls in the family for Christmas. He was so proud to make something himself
Yes, indeed! There's nothing like homemade. I made another batch of my calendula, Sweet Annie, lavender skin balm yesterday. I gave two as gifts on Sunday, so I needed to make another batch. It's so easy and so good for the skin.
You can also combine the two: make loofa soap.
So the guys don’t take showers? 😂
Do you sell the seeds and where is a good place to buy these and can I come them indoors
My childhood was in the Mideast, we had loofah plants all over our front yard. They were beautiful. We had loofah plants, black fig trees, a palm tree, pomegranate trees, orange and apple trees , castor seeds trees, olive trees and ziziphus spina (buckthorns). I do miss having big yard with good trees.
💖I'm a late bloomer,not as big as yours .Im helping my friend with loofa and we are learning from your video !! Thanks!!
This is really wholesome. It made me feel like I was gardening with a grandma I never had. Thank you so much for your incredibly informative and calming content. Your kind spirit shines through your lovely garden!
Thank you, Sarah, you are very kind to say so. Best wishes to you. - Kaye
What's wierd is my grandma and I never hardened together, she had some problems so she couldn't walk, but if I had known her earlier in life we would have, she was sorta a hedgwitch sort so you know she had one hell of a garden in her day, she transformed the neighbhood with her plants, they would pop up for miles arround and I actually lived a while from their house and could still see the descents of her sweet peas growing in my yard (they grew in rows for whatever reason, all of them in east to west rows) sorry tangent but long post short this video warmed me inside in a way that I haven't felt since she passed
Learned something new today! I always just assumed they were man made bath items! 🤦🏽♀️ Interesting video 😊👍🏽
Thank for watching! I hope you subscribed and are enjoying my videos! Another workday video tomorrow!
Me too!
Valindsia Cenales Girl me too 😂
Many called 'loofah' are man made and can be purchased for a lower cost. When a popular item really takes off, it's not uncommon for baby boomers to afix the name of the most popular brand to every item of the sort. For example, calling all vacuum cleaners 'hoovers'. Some might be loofah, but it'll usually be the dearer ones. :)
Ivy Aquila very popular when I was a kid in the Caribbean especially for scrubbing and cleaning pots pans and wooden floors.
Can we just talk about how beautiful she is for a second! I mean she has such a beautiful natural beauty, and I love her hair how it's such a light blonde color. Very gorgeous lady!😊😊😊
and she is so wholesome, I mean look at my pfp and tell mr the last time you think I felt warm inside lmao but she warmed my cold shrivelled goth emt heart
NO.... BEAUTY ISN'T SKIN DEEP OR A PRACTICED SPEECH ITS ACTION.
Well Marilyn...you oughta look in the mirror
Marilyn Monroe it’s because she uses her loofas to wash
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this woman is so unbelievably pure!! i wish more people were like her. Not many people have the amount of patience as her!
That luffa is perfect for soup 😍😍
every girl needs a friend like zachary....he just adores you
I love him, too, but they are moving away soon. 😓
Kaye Kittrell | Late Bloomer Urban Organic Garden Show : what was the appropriate required frostless days to grow the loofa plant? I live in northern Ontario Canada, I am sure it is wishful thinking, but I had to ask. Great video, I was sure this was a sea plant, we learn something new every day.
Today, this video was randomly recommended to me. And now, I randomly know that loofas are grown from plants. This is a nutty world i'm living in.
ChocoNanaKens right
You are so right! I'm happy that YT recommended my video and I heard from you. I'm growing loofa again this year, this time to try some of the recipes for eating the young ones. I hope you find your way back to my channel!
The poor wisteria, it was beautiful
I know, it was heartbreaking, but that can really move a wall.
I agree
I have a Purple Snail I named Wisteria :)
I hope she kept a piece to regrow
Wisteria is extremely invasive and can do absolutely massive damage to other plant life.
Been growing this for years we cut it young and egg and batter it then fry it like okra. Has a nutty taste to it. As it ages the taste changes. Have had loofah from it as well.
Yummmm! Worth a try!
Kaye you are awesome thank you for this video I just recently moved and I’m ready to start my garden. I want to grow luffa for soap
Your friend Zachary is so cute!
I know, and I just learned they are probably moving this summer. 😓
Thanks for watching!
Loufa seeds originally came from Syria ..and they were used for bathing thousands of years ,the French took lots of seeds for some fruits,veg.to grow and this is how it started in EUR.
Very interesting!! I didn't know. Thanks for watching! Please subscribe!
iraq too! :’)
I was looking for a comment like this because my grandmas would do this too back in the day lol. Whenever my parents visit Latakia, they bring back some loufas with them, I like them better than the factory made ones
spoopy socks aren’t loofas you buy also plants?
@@luna-dk1cb omg I live in lattakia and my grandma adores them lol
Today I was 24 years old when I learned:
¿¿¿¿LOOFA A IS PLANT¿¿¿¿¿
P.S. February 11th is my birthday so this loofa is an Aquarius🦋
We're birthday twins!!
thyartissabrina that’s cute
I just saw this video and was blown away as I too thought loofa was some kind of seaweed and my birthday is feb11 too so I was about to write a comment and what you wrote here was in my mind @thyartissabarina what a coincidence♒️
God I’m born a day after you
My birthday is Feb 2!
Nice work with the little buddy. People so often forget those beautiful moments that can be spent with little children.
Awwww Zachary is so adorable!!!!
I’m slowly learning new alternatives than just going out and buying new things. I’m really starting to gain an appreciation for making your own things and secondhand things
This is beautiful and way to go showing how awesome earth can be! ❤️
Wonderful comment. I am in the same boat, learning how little we truly need, and how the earth truly provides for us in abundance. Making things to use in the home feels so fulfilling. Better than chasing a dollar for sure. All the best.
Here in the Philippines, we cook young loofah (patola) with ground pork and misua noodles. Good source of fiber.
Wonderful! I only tried it in one dish. Should have done more but was so eager for the sponges. You can see we tried to find a young one, also tried in stores, but very hard to find here. ua-cam.com/video/1ModFf3Ed1c/v-deo.html
Here in India too
Patola? Astig
We in India as well grow it. and eat it.. we call it jhinga.
You eat it?!,Well I thought,it's used for only beauty purposes.
I remember that my grandma used to grow lots of loofas in Vietnam during summer. We loved eating them for the texture and fragrance, and if there were any loofas hidden under the leaf and became way too old to make food. We used them for sponges. Such a throwback to watch the video. Thanks for sharing.
I'm happy to trigger a good memory for you! Hopefully you can continue the family tradition!
The little boy is the cutest little cutie and is a true highlight of the video, he loved the cookie before he tried it because he has already tasted of your love for him , which is sweet and maternal 💞
Thank you for having captions on this video!
You can slide them into 1/2 inch thick and stir fry with garlic and mushroom, add some oyster sauce, if not just some salt will work too. That’s how I eat my loofa. Growing up in Vietnam, back in the 90s people use loofa as sponges to wash dishes, I haven’t seen it for years but I’m happy that I found your video today, bring back good memory. I really enjoy your video. Thank you ;)
I'm glad I gave you a good memory! Thanks for the great comment. Happy gardening!
in brazil people use it as a sponge to shower, it's very common
Yes, I use it as a sponge to wash dishes. So much better than a store bought sponge that was manufactured!
I wash my body with them!!
In Mexico they use a very scratchy type of loofa to scrub the dirt off you when you shower. I think some Americans have loofas but most are just plastic
I'm Sundanese from West Java, I grew up with this, We call it "Emes", my mum used to scrub me with this, we soak it and soap it then rubbing it to scrub my body, she still use it, I do it sometimes
It is normal to use this in some part of Nigeria
I’m sudanese as well and surprised to see many cultures use this
How is your skin today? :):)
Woahhh di indo ada yaa?
In Guyana, we call them nenwa
My paternal grandma use to grow luffa in her backyard and I as a kid was so amazed with the sponge. I love your little help Zach. He is so adorable. Loved your video.
in the northeast 🇮🇳 when These plants completely threaded dried up, we peel the dried cover and use the sponge as bathing brush.
Love the added touch with the kid helping out with him munching on a homemade cookie!
I am stunned! I always thought that they came from the sea! Thanks so much for educating me.
You are welcome! As I said, so did I! I haven't been so successful growing it since this first time. Thanks for watching!
😂
I was today years old when I realized.....
*loofah is a plant*
Well, you can also buy synthetic loofah. My grandfather used natural loofah but it had to be taken care and it also decomposes with time. We eat the plants as vegetables, so stopped making loofah.
*I KNOW, RIGHT??*
"These tops are ready to just come off"
I bottom cackled
Um, ok. haha, thanks for watching!
M Pascua SCREAMINGGGGGG
Omg HAHA
😭😭😭😭😭
Mahogany Rose that Suge remix 🔥 🙌🏾
Never in a million years i would have thought that this comes from a plant. Loved the calm narrative too
Most surprising part of my day right here!
That lil boy is soon cute! And this lady is precious
Omg those cookies looked good! Also the little boy Zachary was cute!
Yes! I love him. He's lived next door now for almost nine years, but they are moving away soon. 😓Thanks for watching!
The bloopers at the end 😂😂. Your sense of humor was a good start to the day.
Loofa make GREAT scrubbers for dishes!!!
Very true! And the body, especially nice on the feet. I sold a bunch of them at a handmade bazaar in 2017. Still have a dozen of them. Have not had any success getting loofa started since my first try. Please subscribe and tune in for my next livestream on Sunday morning, 3/17, at 10:00 AM PST if you can. I have a nice community that joins.
We use it to scrub our body too. It's excellent to get rid of dead cells from elbow, knee and soles of feet using this.
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This is perfect. I'm on vacation this week which means gardening 24/7. Thanks youtube for recommending this 👌👌
I miss my mom watching this.😃
how informative & INCREDIBLY therapeutic!!
thanks for uploading
❤💋
this was so wholesome it warmed my heart
I love the smell of loofah flowers. It is one of the best when you have many plants the fragrance in the evening is nice. We eat them in soups and stir fry which is sweet and has a slight crunch. I have the ones with the ridges.
I would love your recipe! I am growing them again this year as I didn't eat many that year.
Nobody:
UA-cam: how bout some loofa sis
I know, right? But, I'm glad you watched. ❤
@@Latebloomershow do you have any seeds to sell?
You are such a great storyteller. Not only are you giving us great gardening info, but your voice is so tender and soothing. I'm going to have to try some luffa in my garden.
Congratulations Kaye. It's a great video. I really loved it!!! 👏👍
I have a sinking suspicion that this video showed up form watching soap making videos, however I was pleasantly surprised seeing this on my dash! A very relaxing and welcoming atmosphere to your video 😊
I didn't watch any soap or plant videos, but here i am
Now I will never complain about the price of Loofa sponges😂💓💓💓 Wow! What a great #funfact
You're missing something by not using the babies for food.. in Colombia we stuff them and make them delicious..
I know. I miss out a lot, so busy making content and growing a garden, there is little time to cook. I'd love to try it again. I didn't succeed in getting vines last year. I hope you are enjoying my videos! Another workday video tomorrow!
Carol Lopez pleeeease drop a recipe 😍😍
YES! RECIPE< PLEASE!
We cook them in India as well. We make a variety of dishes based on which part of the country we are from. Also called ridge gourd, they’re very easy to digest and has a cooling effect.
In America if my mom said ok we’re having loofa for dinner I would litterally think she was kidding! That’s cool!
I grew loofahs one year and gave them to everyone as gifts. It's about time I did it again.
It's 2 AM and I found this video by accident and I watched it to the end because it is really interesting. Nice.
I LOVE USING MY LOOFA, IT MAKES BEAUTIFUL SKIN, THANK YOU FOR SHARING, THAT WAS NICE, MANY PRAYERS/BLESSINGS!
Thanks, Gale!! Blessings to you as well!
You seem like a sweet humble person! Thank you for this! I wanna start growing my own to reduce plastic!
I finally got two loofah plants a couple of weeks ago! I was looking so long for one here in Norway and a nice man gave me two. Soooo so excited❤️
That's fantastic! I hope it goes well. Please keep me posted!
My seedlings are leggy and can’t support the leaves. Can I sucker off the new leave and just keep the 2 bigger ones? My other seedlings droop over and died. Thank you for your consideration.
Why not directly buy the loofah seeds online? I recommend one bean for all of you, oil bean, in Chinese ,it is 东北油豆角. This is its image: images.app.goo.gl/Hk1Wj4s7ucm4RV576 . It is nearly 30cm long, 3cm wide . And very easy to get cooked. It is the best bean I met in my life. You can find its seed in alibaba website I think. Try this oil beans, they are super great beans.
I garden (vegetable) and I worked in a bathing goods store for years...I HAD NO CLUE WHERE LOOFA CAME FROM!Thank you so much for the informative video.
My wife planted 7 seeds last year. We got over 70 usable loofah sponges.
This year we have plans to plant them under trees, and along fence lines.
Bees love them so much! And... sponges!
We'll try eating the small ones in stir fry this year. :)
Peace and gardens.
My mother in law has loofa in the farm. Since I started using loofa to bath I din't spend money buying other kind of sponge. Loofa is the best.
Luffa gourd is perfectly edible when young. Also, you can cut open a branch and use a bottle to slowly collect juice coming out of the cut opening - it is probably the best facial toner you can have!
Oh my goodness! What an amazing fact! I will try that this year in my new homestead! Lots of room to grow luffa!
Thank you for the seeds, they just arrived. I will plant them soon. Let you know.
I loved playing in the neighbors garden and shelling peas when I was little. Lucky little boy. Plus cookies.
My grandmother grow these also! It’s a blast from the past to see them again. She also grew spagetti, they are so fun to pick
I had NO clue loofas were grown like this! 🌈🌠 the more ya know.. I’m obsessed with gardening. I started with propagating arrowheads. I’ve moved onto flowers and now I’m trying peppers and melons. I cannot wait to try this. Thank you!
That's fantastic! I'm excited for you. Please let me know how your gardening goes. There is lots to learn from my playlists. I hope you check them out. ❣💗
That's awesome, what's an arrowhead?
I decided to buy Loofah seeds right after watching this, thanks!
Update: they germinated only this week, they took forever ahah
In the Phillipines we call luffa as patola it is known as a vegetable in our country, we usually eat this veggie and sometimes we use to stir fry it with other veggies or make a soup together with other veggies
Oh, I know and wish I had some of that right now! Thank for watching! I hope you subscribed and are enjoying my videos! Another workday video tomorrow!
What does it taste like?
Cooked it has the texture of a melon, but with a not-sweet cucumber kind of taste. I think they use a lot of tasty spices and oils to make it yummy.
In Poland you can call alcoholics and vulgar people patola XD
@@LGJiG it's taste good. However, the smaller the tastier.
WAIT A MINUTE!!!! Lol...Using loofahs all my life and had absolutely no idea that they grew on vines... Or that they "grew" at all... Wow. I love learning new things! Thank you so much for sharing.
Growing up we had these growing everywhere in our front yard. Veins back memories. We had figs, pomegranates, olives, palm tree and these loofa plants.
Every common plant in India my village, all most I am using this for my bath , last 30yrs! It's good and organic, cheap!
I always knew it was natural but never saw it in its vine. Thank you for sharing.
8:45 “...I used to think luffa came from the ocean.” [Kaye bluescreens] 😂
Had no idea! How cool.
My wife is Chinese and our six loofah plants have provided many meals for her this summer. This was my first year to grow loofah, and we have about eight of the giant ones still on the vine. I didn`t have a clue how to go from the gourd to the scrubber, so your video has been great to show me how to do so. Will go out today and shake a few of the more mature ones to see if they rattle. Thanks!
In India Tamil Nadu we call it as peerkangai ridge gaurd we cook and eat it yummy recipes...My grandma use the sponge for dishwashing scrub and also for bathing..
Sorry for my English
Your English is very good! I'm growing them again this year for the purpose of eating them. So many have left mouthwatering descriptions of how they eat it. I can't wait.
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my sis cleaned her tushi with it and then made me eat it as a prank 🤮
so glad i was recommended this video...kaye, you have a very warm presence and i loved learning about loofah from you! excited to watch your other videos ☺️
Fantastic! I'm so glad I inspired you and thank you for the kind comment! Keep in touch! 💗
Wisteria is really pretty, I have always wanted to litter my future house with them, now I know to be more careful in the future. 🤨
It can move walls, yeah. Thanks so much for watching and commenting! ❤ You're awesome!
Chines wisteria is invasive. If you still want to try wisteria I would go for the less invasive species.
PS. We had a wisteria and it was the most beautiful bush you could think of but it was too close to the well and we cut it down two or three years ago, we are still cutting sprouts from where it was.
Wow a free sponge now i don't need to buy one but i need to get the seeds :(
This is the purest and best video on youtube 10/10
I love that you're including such young ones! Teaching the next generation!
I am totally mind blown right now, thanks for sharing!
I got to know that these things are sold through comments. In our country we've been doing this for years and grow on our own.😁
Why is this wholesome lady in my recommendations 😂
I received my first package of seeds and am very excited to try growing these! Thanks for the great video!
This woman has the purest energy
"This is the stage where you can cook and eat them, **chuckles** "
" *but I didn't.* "
In my Indian household, we only use this as a loofa. Even my great grandfathers used them. And the fruit is delicious to eat as well. My favourite is to have them fried in chickpea flour batter. Yum yum. 😋
Mouli Banerjee same.... it is very tasty when we make it as kootu
I love cook loufa soup with peeled shrimps chopped, amaranth leaves chopped and some leaves of hot pepper ... Good smelt and good taste , we eat soup with rice.... Flowers can add to soup or stir fry with peeled shrimps , too .
OH MY!! That sounds wonderful!! I wish you could come and cook that for me. My friend Jacq and I tried to cook it when she was visiting but the loofas were too far along: ua-cam.com/video/1ModFf3Ed1c/v-deo.html
"leaves of hot pepper"? Do you mean that you can also cook the leaves of the hot pepper plant? I never knew that. What a great piece of information. THANKS.
Thank you for adding bloopers at the end. It was nice to see more of your personality shine through as I learned to grow loofah with you. Thanks for the video. My seeds are on the way.
Wonderful! Everything changed on YT in 2016 when I made this video, and now I don't have the time to add bloopers and put all the extras in each video trying to upload several a week. Back then, I did two a month! Hope you visit my channel again here in Tennessee.
Dear goodness... This is amazing. First learning that this was a plant. And then learning you can cook, then eat bath sponges before they become bath sponges. You've earned a sub thanks to this vid.
She’s sooo beautiful wow
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A video I didn’t know I wanted but a video I needed ☺️
This was so wholesome thank you
Edit:I loved the bloopers
I used those all my life, my mother is from Honduras and that's what they use for bathing😊
Right! Thanks for watching!!
I grew up in Tegucigalpa!
I'm from El Salvador and used them the same way,,,,, for bathing !
Same :) I used to find it so cool and curious
I enjoyed this video so much. Her voice is soothing, like a children's book.
I dont watch stuff like this normally but the amount of intrest this sparked is amazing
I’m so happy you randomly popped into my front page. I enjoyed you and this video!!
Wow That's amazing! All those loofahs from just 13 little seeds! wonderful! I can't wait to try growing these as well.. :) Great Video!
Loved the video and the bloopers. Thank you for sharing. I’ll have to try this here in Arizona.
I moved to Puerto Rico 26 years ago and there was life growing wild up the hill from my house. One of my husband's uncle bought it to me and I used it as gifts for my family at Christmas. I haven't seen it anymore but would love to try it again. Thank you for sharing.