What do you use to wash up with?

[nettie]

I have cloths that I reuse to wipe surfaces, and use a metal scourer on my pans and usually use those spongy things with a rough side on them for the other stuff, but get through loads of them, so was wondering if there was a reusuable alternative?

Mainly I use those white stockinette cloths for washing up & surfaces, which can be boiled/bleached/machine washed. I use a clean one every day. Get the better-quality ones which don't fall apart too quickly.

I also use a brush which came from Lakeland. It's billed as a 'professional' washing-up brush but is brilliant value because it has lasted ages, months.

If you have a conservatory or sunny greenhouse you can grow luffas and use them as pan scourers!
Grow angled luffas not smooth ones as the smooth ones are bigger but don't do so well in Britain.

lol - never heard that one before! Could use them in the bath, too.

Thanks, just got an allotment, so when we've got greenhouse sorted out I'll have a try at growing some.Would I buy them as seeds,seedlings or plants?

From seed - make sure you get luffa acutangula (I think I have the spelling right), not luffa cylindrica. Chiltern seeds sell them, probably some other places too. Soak them for 24 hrs in warm water & germinate them in the airing cupboard or somewhere warm, but otherwise its just like growing a very climbing cucumber. They've got lovely flowers too which I think are moth pollinated, they open in the evening.

DH!

Thanks Takver, sounds interesting, never heard of them before, but will give it a go when we've got the greenhouse sorted.