the wacky wombat weblog

A follow up on my previous mobile-ramblings: I didn’t know that every time I load a webpage on my cellphone via WAP connection, the images are getting loaded too even though they are not displayed on my cellphone screen. So yeah, so smart of me, happily using WAP and blogging away without paragraphing tool, without noticing all the $$$ zipping away at high speed. Oh well, that’s the end of that. :p

anyways, today, I’m here to bring everyone a fun fact for the day:

Did you know, that a loofah (or luffa/loofa — yeah that shower sponge thingy), is a vegetable?

Yup. I always thought all sorts of sponges came from the sea (I probably got that from watching Spongebob haha). Turns out, they actually have green skin, and grow on vines, like bittergourds and all that.

Somebody’s actually grown the luffa plant and harvested it as shower sponge. (read it here)
And Wikipedia tells me that the plant is actually Chinese Okra, and it grows well in warm temperatures.

Which gives me an idea: I want to plant my own loofah!! hahaha. It’d be so cool, if I had a house, and crawling vines of luffa plant that ends up becoming my shower sponge!

Ok, so besides the obvious problems of finding the seeds to start planting with, and also the obvious lack of garden space, there’s also the fact that I am no green fingers to deal with. I once bought a potted plant, coz I thought it looked so cute, sitting atop a lil’ shelf in Ikea. But being the forgetful and bad gardener that I am, it died. Either from basking too much in the hot sun, or from drowning on the occasions when I remember to water. Till now I still don’t have a good idea of its cause of death.

So, yeah, maybe I’ll spare this little loofah plant, and ask my mom to grow it hahaha. She’ll be happy to add another plant to the jungle-that-is-really-a-garden at home in PJ. Then I can get the seeds, and tips to being a good gardener from her next time. But of course, to be a gardener, I gotta find meself a garden first. :p So I guess it’s back to buying my loofahs from Body Shop.