Mom picked a big bag of flowers whose every part is a treasure from the field, and gave the extras to the neighbors

It's early autumn now, and the melons and vegetables in the field have been mostly eaten. Today Mom went to the field to pull up the withered vegetable vines and dig and loosen the soil. When she came back, she had picked a big bag of luffa flowers, saying she would bring them home to make steamed buns.

Some folks may have only eaten luffa, but never luffa flowers. Actually, I ate quite a lot of luffa flowers when I was little. Freshly picked luffa flowers can be used in soup, stir-fried, or mixed into flour to make steamed buns, and they taste extremely delicious.

Luffa flowers are a really good thing, one could say every part is a treasure. Luffa flowers have the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying, and for lung-heat cough, sore and swollen throat, and the like, they can have a pretty good therapeutic effect. We can also simmer luffa flowers into a paste and apply it directly to the injured area, which can also have a good astringent effect. They are a very cheap natural Chinese herbal medicine.

As we all know, luffa flowers belong to the Cucurbitaceae family, and they bloom in summer. At this time there are many flowers starting to open on the stems, usually opening in the morning and withering at night, after which they open in successive waves, continuing all the way into autumn.

Luffa flowers are generally harvested in summer. To get luffa flowers, you can grow luffa in pots, and then you can have both. Growing luffa is unlike other plants: it especially loves moisture, and because its leaves are large and its transpiration is high, its water demand is also quite large, so during the growing period it still needs a sufficient water supply. When grown in pots, the soil moisture should stay moist, with humidity at 50%-70%.

Luffa is a warmth-loving, heat-tolerant vegetable; it tolerates high temperatures relatively well and loves light. During the growing period it needs plenty of sunlight. The stronger the light, the better it grows, and this also helps it bloom. More flowers means more luffa squash, and both the luffa and the luffa flowers can be picked and eaten.