Grow, Harvest & Cook Angled Luffa

With hubby's help, I am now more encouraged to grow more edibles, especially those that grow on vines. One day while at the plant nursery, I picked up a packet of angled luffa seeds. Hubby has prepared the place and the overhead lines for me to grow some climbing vegetables.

Angled Luffa vines growing out of a big pot.

Flower buds of the Luffa plants.

The plants have been flowering but whenever I check on them in the morning, the yellow flowers have dropped off from the plants.

Angled Luffa vines in front (on the right) and the white bitter melon vines further back (left).

One late evening, hubby called me out to the garden to see these Angled Luffa flowers. This picture was taken with the flash light.

If we happened to check on the plants in the early morning, the flowers are still intact and have not dropped off.

Pretty yellow Angled Luffa flowers.

This is the first Angled Luffa fruit hanging from the vine.

Happy to see lots of yellow flowers on the vines and the bees are busy going from flowers to flowers.

Hubby happily counting the numbers of angled luffa on the vines.

Here is another one.

Two more lower down.

This was found hiding behind the leaves.

The first Angled Luffa harvested from my garden. This is my first experience and I better it earlier to prevent it from growing too old.

When I cooked it, it turned out to be very tender and about the right time to be harvested. I cooked the Angled Luffa with garlic, ginger slices, prawns, chicken breast slices, century egg and salted egg.

I also fried a plate of rice vermicelli with chicken breast slices, beansprouts, julienned carrots, etc. Hubby and I had these 2 dishes for dinner that evening.

Harvested from my garden: long green okra, red okras and angled luffa. The 2 short and fat okras were given by a friend. She also gave me a few seeds and now I am waiting for the seeds to sprout.

Many say that God will never help us. Prove them wrong, O Lord,

by letting the light of your face shine down upon us.

Yes, the gladness you have given me is far greater than their joys

at harvest time as they gaze at their bountiful crops.

(Psalm 4:6-7, The Living Bible-TLB)