New enclosure

[voodoochild]

Always gave my torts the whole backyard but its a pain hunting for them on cold winter nights. So I'm building an enclosure. Just started digging up grass. Wanted to mulch it and plant a bunch of stuff so it just looks like a landscaped area. Any suggestions? Plants or anything?

 

[wellington]

RE: New encodure

Hostas mine lies to hide in them and they can eat them. They spread quickly too.

 

[Yvonne G]

What a pretty fence. I want one!!!

Rose of Sharon is always good. The flowers fall and the tortoises eat them, also the leaves are edible.

 

[voodoochild]

Thanks. Our HOA requires these fences.


Anybody have experience with tort ponds? I was going to make a shallow pond for them too.

 

[wellington]

I made a tort pond. A very small one. I dug a hole and put PVC pipe down it and then I put a bathroom sink stopper in it from homedepot. The stopper pushes down to hold the water, then I just pop it up to empty it. For the pond, I just poured cement in a shallow hole I had dug out.

 

[CtTortoiseMom]

What a pretty fence. I want one!!!

Rose of Sharon is always good. The flowers fall and the tortoises eat them, also the leaves are edible.

I was thinking the same thing, I love your privacy fence!! Check out this website I found for edible plants for Redford. It has a whole list....

http://redfoottortoise.com/edible_landscaping.htm

 

[voodoochild]

Oh so it's basically a cement pond with a drain? That's a pretty good idea. Maybe I'll try that. Maybe I could imbed rocks into it to make it look more natural.

 

[voodoochild]

Figured I'd post a little update.

 

[voodoochild]

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So I'm sorta done with the pond. I decided to make a wood frame instead of using rocks. The frame was only about 10 bucks and rocks in FL aren't real cheap. Pry switch to rocks eventually but what do you think?