Can I Use Potting Soil?

[90Matt]

I am making an outdoor enclosure for my Russian Tortoise. I am planning to grow some plants in it and I was wondering if its safe to use Miraclegrow potting soil as a substrate in her enclosure.

 

[jaizei]

Depends on what the potting soil consists of.

 

[Merrick]

Top soil with no additives like fertilizer is really good

 

[90Matt]

Ok

 

[90Matt]

It says it's made of sphagnum peat moss, coir, perlite, fertilizer, and a "wetting agent". Are Any of those ingredients harmful or bad?

 

[johnsonnboswell]

No perlite, no little white styrofoam pellets. No fertilzers or pellets of any kind. Sometimes top soil works.

Make your own compost. Start now & by next summer you'll have all you need. Garden waste, fallen leaves, kitchen waste, all good.

 

[90Matt]

Alright