Grow your own washing-up scrubs
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AMATEUR Gardening readers are being asked to follow the National Trust’s example and grow their own washing up sponges!
The team at the Trust’s Knightshayes estate in Devon have harvested their first crop of loofahs, which staff and volunteers are using to wash up in the property’s kitchen.
Compost them after use
The loofahs are much more environmentally sound than plastic pan scourers and can be added to the compost heap when they wear out.
Kitchen garden supervisor Bev Todd said: “Many people think loofahs are sea sponges but they’re actually, a vine in the cucumber family.
