Grocery shopping for the torts...

[rkelleh]

Got so excited today when I decided to check out Savemart for tort grocery shopping. They have a plethora of organic greens and such a variety including dandelion greens. Am pleased I can offer them a better variety while I am waiting on seeds to arrive and start the tort garden. I am so excited that I had to post this...lol. I think people here are the only ones who would understand the excitement.

And to add, I absolutely hate shopping and am the online guru at it. I am now excited to actually go to the grocery store...who knew that torts would motivate me.

 

[lismar79]

Lol! I was excited when I found dandelion greens too.

 

[Donna/Turbo]

Wow, I was excited to find prickly pear. I can't image finding dandelion greens. Are they the same as all the weeds in my yard or are they different? I bought clover seeds a couple of weeks ago and they all started sprouting today. I never thought it would be so exciting growing weeds.

 

[lismar79]

Wow, I was excited to find prickly pear. I can't image finding dandelion greens. Are they the same as all the weeds in my yard or are they different? I bought clover seeds a couple of weeks ago and they all started sprouting today. I never thought it would be so exciting growing weeds.

Same without the yummy flower though

 

[rkelleh]

I cannot wait to get my seeds in and never thought I would ever start a garden with them. My husband just laughs at me now because I am the opposite with the weeds and am grocery shopping at 1 store for the torts and another for us. It has become exciting more and more with the torts because it also links a hobby of gardening into the picture.

 

[Heather H]

I just did produce shopping. Washed everything . Had them on paper towels. My son grabbed a dandelion leaf. Munched on it and wanted more. Lol.

 

[smarch]

I experienced the same excitement when I discovered dandelion greens at our grocery store... and immense disappointment when I realized in the winter here Prickly Pear stops coming to stores...

 

[smarch]

Wow, I was excited to find prickly pear. I can't image finding dandelion greens. Are they the same as all the weeds in my yard or are they different? I bought clover seeds a couple of weeks ago and they all started sprouting today. I never thought it would be so exciting growing weeds.

basically the same but much larger... assuming you mow your yard ever... but even the ones in our field aren't as big as the ones in the store

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Isn't it great to get excited about such things.
i was walking past a school yesterday with 2 hijabed Moroccan ladies, when, much to their embarrassment, I let out a cry of triumph and rushed into the school garden to avail myself of a carrier bag full of dandelion greens, buds and flowers. The school kids stared in amazement, though some helped me pick some succulent morsels and I had to inform them they were for my Fakroona batoussa ( fat tortoise girl).
Only people on this site will understand this.

 

[Grandpa Turtle 144]

I experienced the same excitement when I discovered dandelion greens at our grocery store... and immense disappointment when I realized in the winter here Prickly Pear stops coming to stores...

Don't buy the pads grow them . Wait til you go to the store get talking about the greens , and torts and then out of the blue someone says OH yes my Anunt has a tort and you start talking about the TFO and you get them to join !

 

[smarch]

Don't buy the pads grow them . Wait til you go to the store get talking about the greens , and torts and then out of the blue someone says OH yes my Anunt has a tort and you start talking about the TFO and you get them to join !

I wish I could grow them... actually I have a large cactus slowly growing that is questionably prickly pear but no idea what it is. Kinda hard to keep them happy through MA winters.
People think i'm healthy when I have a bunch of greens and a chocolate bar... I tell them the greens are for my tortoise and they laugh when I say the chocolate is all I have although I do share Kale, that stuffs yummy!

 

[Grandpa Turtle 144]

I wish I could grow them... actually I have a large cactus slowly growing that is questionably prickly pear but no idea what it is. Kinda hard to keep them happy through MA winters.
People think i'm healthy when I have a bunch of greens and a chocolate bar... I tell them the greens are for my tortoise and they laugh when I say the chocolate is all I have although I do share Kale, that stuffs yummy!

Cactus grows great in the north in the house . Cactus like hot dry heat and in the winter with your heat on you have warm dry heat

 

[Lyn W]

You are so lucky in the USA with the variety of tortoise-friendly organic foods you have access to. If I asked my supermarket for dandelion greens they would probably call security and escort me out of the store. Can't find anywhere that stocks anything like that.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

You are so lucky in the USA with the variety of tortoise-friendly organic foods you have access to. If I asked my supermarket for dandelion greens they would probably call security and escort me out of the store. Can't find anywhere that stocks anything like that.

yeah, here in Morocco the same, we can't even buy bags of spring greens or mixed lettuce.
On the other hand, stuffs expensive in The USA, or so I understand. Here an ordinary lettuce will cost 20 cents of US money and red lettuce and more exotic varieties only 50cents. Cuttlefish bone only 50cents also, or find on the beach. Mostly though the stuff I feed comes from the countryside or parks and is free. Supermarkets mainly sell yogurts and biscuits here.

 

[Prairie Mom]

You are so lucky in the USA with the variety of tortoise-friendly organic foods you have access to. If I asked my supermarket for dandelion greens they would probably call security and escort me out of the store. Can't find anywhere that stocks anything like that.

It's not like that everywhere in the US. There is nothing like that where I live.

 

[Donna/Turbo]

Cactus grows great in the north in the house . Cactus like hot dry heat and in the winter with your heat on you have warm dry heat View attachment 122293

Wow Your Cactus are amazing!! Mine is not doing so well.

 

[Grandpa Turtle 144]

Wow Your Cactus are amazing!! Mine is not doing so well.View attachment 122311

Your cactus was just planted too deep . Take the top pad off let it dry for a week and then throught it on the ground and do nothing Ina week or two it will root .

 

[HLogic]

Same without the yummy flower though

I'll bet if you plant a few you'll find they are chickory not dandelions.

 

[smarch]

Your cactus was just planted too deep . Take the top pad off let it dry for a week and then throught it on the ground and do nothing Ina week or two it will root .

Sorry OP for briefly hijacking this thread.

Are there cactuses that look similar to prickly pear? I was given a pad of a cactus by a coworker who was given a pad years ago from a friend in/around AZ but no one seams to know what it is, and I wouldn't want to use it as tort food if it could be something else.
It looks very similar to the pictures posted here... although mine was an idiot and grew 4 pads straight on top of each other and toppled in half...

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Sorry OP for briefly hijacking this thread.

Are there cactuses that look similar to prickly pear? I was given a pad of a cactus by a coworker who was given a pad years ago from a friend in/around AZ but no one seams to know what it is, and I wouldn't want to use it as tort food if it could be something else.
It looks very similar to the pictures posted here... although mine was an idiot and grew 4 pads straight on top of each other and toppled in half...

Yeah, cactuses are really not very bright are they? Stupid, illogical spiky things!