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Plans for the spring
So it's the new year, so thought it time to be thinking about our out door enclosures. I update my tortoise garden every spring, it's my favourite kind of gardening, and this year is no exception. As I'm getting a new fence and wall, I gained a little more space at ground level, so that means more planting . I've got the usual plants , like lavender, thyme, grasses, etc, but I want some taller plants/ flowers for the back of the flower bed, against the fence. I did think of echinacea, but apparently the slugs like them, and obviously I can'tut down slug pellets. Any ideas for taller flowers , that will make it look pretty as well as being appropriate for the torts, will be very welcome.
And let's here your plans for the summer.
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I was considering implementing some way of restricting Jerry's access to feeder plants, this year.
I love to see him self sufficient and he really does thrive being outside 24/7 from May to September. However, during this time he has access to green, succulent leaves all the time. This simply wouldn't happen in the wild....and Jerry definitely does not regulate his feeding!! Not sure what to do yet, or how this can be achieved. I guess some sort of barrier/fence. Suggestions are welcome.
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What you have to do is, let him feed on what is growing, then leave him without food for a couple of weeks. Grow some weeds in trays and then put them in every now and again so he has something to eat now and again. My tortoises graze on grass when there are not a lot of weeds growing or they have eaten them. I also feed them just flowers when they are in season. The nearest to nature I can get:0)
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Thanks Sandy, I like the idea of hollyhocks, I've got one growing in a pot, I will definitely put that in the torts planted area. And I will look up Honesty, I've forgotten what it looks like. I'm going to put in some Sea holly cos it looks pretty. I did plant some campanulas last year and they ate the lot , before they had chance to flower !
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You could try Russian Vine to grow up the fence as although they shouldn't have too much they can only reach it so far. Also maybe honeysuckle.
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Lol it sounds lush, may be you do need to put up a little fence of some sort. Could you build an add on bit to the enclosure , so he can't eat all the time.
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