

Not only can you eat them, but you can harvest them older, brown and those dried out gourds are perfect exfoliating sponges! You do have to clean them in a slightly-sanitized solution, so it's clean and won't break down in the shower.

Zucchini's are sometimes hard to grow here in humid South Florida, so this is the perfect solution! Later in the summer, you'll see them start to flower and fruit all over! You can harvest young, green fruits and it makes an amazing zucchini alternative dish!! Such a good texture and really easy to prepare. In spring, I'll watch them quickly climb a tree or a huge fence line. It is an annual so it'll only go for a year or so, then you'll want to seed another one the following season since it grows and produces so well!ĭuring the end of Feb / March each year, we plant seeds from our harvest from last year. We plant probably 30,000 to 40,000 trees per year.Loofah is a gourd that grows as a vine.


Our cut-your-own-tree (u-cut) area is 120 acres, which includes two hazelnut orchards and some pasture, and we also offer fresh-cut trees if people don't want to cut down a tree. It's not just harvesting or planting them and letting them grow you've got fertilizing and trimming, plus the planting time alone. I don't know where they get that idea from, but it takes much longer - six to 10 years for harvest size - so you're spending a lot of time and money before you ever sell your product. We still have people who think a tree is planted one year, and then the next year, it's ready to harvest. Then, we have to make sure they're in the ground right and standing up straight - if we don't, that's when you get the curved trunk. There's a lot that goes into growing a Christmas tree: prepping the ground, fertilizing, raking, cultivating, and going through with your crew to put in the seedlings.
