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Do they like it? Mine love a soak as well. This is a great place for advice btw. Second to none for me.
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As Jonathan says the plants in the wild in their natural range seem to work but they are different to here as is the soil and the climate and the water etc. Their natural range is increasingly being taken over by farmers and torts sit in the fields and chomp on their crops so in 50 or 100 years we might know if that has had any adverse health effects on them |
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I found one of my old posts, it was actually the outer part of the pumpkin seed so it may well spread a little into the plant
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Very interesting stuff, Alan. Thank you for finding that thread. Pumpkin, Cucumber, Courgette, Butternut squash, are all from the same family aren't they which is why I grow the flowers from all of above and feed, they adore them. Whether they all have that worming thing in them is for us to think about and hope for. It will be interesting to see.
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Is Ed still thinking about it do we know? CB
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These are all fruits and should not be fed to meds or horsfields. But the odd bit and I mean the odd bit once ore twice a season is not going to hurt. I dont feed any fruit to my tortoises, but if they find a dropped blackberry or the like I am not going to panic:0)
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That is YOUR choice and not the tortoises. All tortoises find and consume fruit in the wild when it is in season... and I don't know any tortoise range that does not have fruit bearing plants.
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But there not going to find a bowl of strawberries in the wild, and in the med, there's not many fruit bushes about, and the berries they do find are probably lower in sugar than many fruits we have in our fruit bowls at home, like strawberries .
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The natural way. I dont feed fruit:0)
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