NessiesNoob
New Member
I have a couple of young Sulcatas and being new to the Sulcata, I check everything I feed them against online resources to make sure it is okay. My yard is probably 50-60% garden and 99.8% organic ( I give a slow-release, balanced fertilizer in March to help my yard wake up, though I didn't this year). A lot of what I grow is native to Florida and I have found a number of them on lists (Coreopsis, Beebalm, Salvias, etc). But there's quite a bit in my yard that I can't find on lists.
Enter the Royal Court Tasters.
An awesome (to me) benefit of living in Florida is a few times a year I get one of three gopher tortoises visiting my yard. They will stomp in and usually beeline toward a specific plant. Sometimes its the coreopsis, sometimes its gopher apple, sometimes it's just the St. Augustine grass. Once the most mature of the three came to take care of a dog dropping I had missed before going back to her den. This has me thinking and I want to bounce this idea off of more experienced Sulcata keepers, if the gopher tortoises are eating a plant in my yard, then it is probably safe for the Sulcata as well?
Enter the Royal Court Tasters.
An awesome (to me) benefit of living in Florida is a few times a year I get one of three gopher tortoises visiting my yard. They will stomp in and usually beeline toward a specific plant. Sometimes its the coreopsis, sometimes its gopher apple, sometimes it's just the St. Augustine grass. Once the most mature of the three came to take care of a dog dropping I had missed before going back to her den. This has me thinking and I want to bounce this idea off of more experienced Sulcata keepers, if the gopher tortoises are eating a plant in my yard, then it is probably safe for the Sulcata as well?