Growing Bottle Gourds, Luffa Sponges, and Cucumbers on a Tower Garden

Hi guys, this is Mathias with Agrotonomy Tower Farms and today I'm going to show you my craziest tower, at least the craziest we've had in 2020. And 2020 has been a crazy year, so for a crazy year, a crazy tower. Today we are at Ibiza Farm where everything started, but I'm here today to show you the craziest tower. It's a cucurbit tower and when I say a cucurbit tower, it's because we are growing beautiful cucumbers on it, but also look all the way on top over there. These are luffa sponges and the luffa sponge does not come from the sea. It's like a cucumber, same family, but the star of this tower, in my opinion, are these beautiful gourds, bottle gourds, called calabash gourds. The calabash gourd comes from everywhere. In fact, it comes from Asia. They have that in South America. They have it in Africa. Some countries eat it in India or in Ivory Coast, for example, but most of everyone growing these beautiful gourds are growing it as containers, food containers, or as bottles just to put water. That's why they're also called bottle gourds. Harvesting a luffa sponge. Check this out. What is so interesting about luffa sponges is not the exfoliant part, which I personally don't use, but yeah, it's the fact that it's all soft. It's all soft. It's just soft like a sponge. Contrary to its cousin, the cucumber, which is firm, hard. Now let's harvest a gourd. That's the best. Look at the perfect shape. It weighs a lot. Look at this. No wonder that they used it as a container and as a bottle. Let's imagine this is filled. You get the picture, right? This is my calabash gourd tower. No, really, a cucurbit tower. The craziest this year. All from the same family, from the cucurbit family. The cucumber, the luffa sponge, the calabash gourd. Although they look so, so, so different, each one has its own crazy shape, flavor, or function. They grow in the same way. They are just really prolific vines that give you abundant, bounty for harvest. I just love to grow them.