Really nice!
My torts love petunias... but I wouldn't plant that kind ![Stick Out Tongue :p :p](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
ba ha hahahaReally nice!My torts love petunias... but I wouldn't plant that kind
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Awesome! I don't have either right now. I think hens and chicks are so cool looking that I've been wanting to try them. It's great to hear your tortoises like Hostas!!! I have so much shade that's practically begging for me to plant them full of hostas. I'm thrilled to know these are tort-tasty. Thanks!My torts really enjoy my hostas and hens and chicks as well. Both are fairly easy to grow.
Thanks so much, leigti!!I really appreciate this thread. It gives us people without green thumbs a fighting chance to raise some nice tortoise food and make our yards look good too.
This is what they look like today View attachment 117297 But in a couple months they will start showing new growth. Our growing season is to short to get ripe bananas but the trees do fine and get big and tall. I now have banana trees in several areas and even the ones without any winter protection have survived and multiplied for several winters. When I first tried growing these I would dig them up and store them in the garage over winter, I started trying different ways to store them over winter, like digging them up and stacking them against the house and covering with mulch, dig and store in the turtle pen that I covered with poly. One year I had some pop up in an area where I thought I had removed all the trees so I could plant some opuntia, I missed some root pieces and they still grow through the cactus. By me accidentally leaving some roots there and them coming back without me doing anything to protect them from the cold winter temps made me realize that they really are cold hardy, So now I don't do anything for winter, just clean and cut the trunks back in early spring. There are other things growing in this mess, colocasia, mulberry tree, cannas, hibiscus, some opuntia that has been taken over by the trees as they spread out, and always have some volunteer tomato plants.
Yes they can, they prefer the young trees and will eat them right down to the ground sometimes. The elephant ear plants can be eaten by some species of tortoises, mostly forest dwelling ones. My red footed, yellow footed, mee, mep and impressed all eat colocasia and alocasia plants.I don't offer it to the others though. I wish I had them shooting up here, we are having a never ending winter...Can you feed the leaves of your banana trees to your torts? I have elephant ears and banana trees shooting up everywhere each spring, I know the elephant ear is not edible but what about the banana trees?
Yes they can, they prefer the young trees and will eat them right down to the ground sometimes. The elephant ear plants can be eaten by some species of tortoises, mostly forest dwelling ones. My red footed, yellow footed, mee, mep and impressed all eat colocasia and alocasia plants.I don't offer it to the others though. I wish I had them shooting up here, we are having a never ending winter...
BEAUTIFUL!!!Yeah for banana trees. Here's a pix of mine this past Summer. Plenty of leaves for our Sully! I plan to bring it back outside very soon, it's been sleeping in our garage all Winter long.
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This is what they look like today View attachment 117297 But in a couple months they will start showing new growth. Our growing season is to short to get ripe bananas but the trees do fine and get big and tall. I now have banana trees in several areas and even the ones without any winter protection have survived and multiplied for several winters. When I first tried growing these I would dig them up and store them in the garage over winter, I started trying different ways to store them over winter, like digging them up and stacking them against the house and covering with mulch, dig and store in the turtle pen that I covered with poly. One year I had some pop up in an area where I thought I had removed all the trees so I could plant some opuntia, I missed some root pieces and they still grow through the cactus. By me accidentally leaving some roots there and them coming back without me doing anything to protect them from the cold winter temps made me realize that they really are cold hardy, So now I don't do anything for winter, just clean and cut the trunks back in early spring. There are other things growing in this mess, colocasia, mulberry tree, cannas, hibiscus, some opuntia that has been taken over by the trees as they spread out, and always have some volunteer tomato plants.