Feeding and Nutrition :: Garden options?

[sleepygrl79]

We have a little garden (no pesticides used) in our mini back yard and I was wondering what stuff I could feed Molly McButterPants?

I read that tomatoes were ok on occasion but what about the beautiful green leafs that grown on the plant? I love the smell of them...

Same with cucumber leaves (we have lemon cucumbers growing)?

I also have some herbs growing such as basil, lavender, rosemary, and mint to name a few...

Anyone think any of this stuff is ok to add to a nice summer diet? (for the record I have not fed "him" any of these I thought I'd ask first)

[Starchick]

Be very careful about feeding the leaves of plants, many plants with edible fruit have toxic leaves and seeds. Potato plants, for instance, which are in the same family as tomatoes, so I wouldn't risk it.

Basil is fine, many turtles love it. I've also heard of feeding cilantro. I'm not sure about any of the others.

[sleepygrl79]

Thanks Starchick...I was just wondering..I want to make his diet as colorful as possible.

I had heard the same thing about Basil..and of course "he" loves it...I think unless I hear otherwise that'll be the only thing "he" gets out of our garden..
the rest will be for us

[megcornell]

On an unrelated note, I love your turtle's name. It's the perfect mix of a Harry Potter/ McDonald's name.

[Starchick]

OMG hehehe I didn't even notice the name! That's a great name!

[adam85491]

I have a garden too..however, two things didn't work for the 2nd time in a row (cheap seeds!!) but the romaine lettuce did and so did plenty of radishes. I feed them leaves of radish once in a while and they really like the fresh lettuce..however, I had to plant more so the only thing up now is like ten corn stalks, a few pepper plants, and a few tomato plants which I don't think would be a good idea to feed them...I'de love to say it's organic, but we used plant food (little green balls you put in the dirt) so I made sure to rinse a lot before feeding. Good luck with the garden, though.

[marisa]

Molly McButterpants?? I like it---classy name.

If you want to feed leaves, concentrate on the leafy green ones that are normally eaten (red and green-leaf lettuce, romaine, collards, chicory, dandelions, for example). The leaves of basil are fine, though; my RES grew up on them. I'd stay away from the other herbs you mentioned.

I have a little garden of tomatoes, lettuce (green and red-leaf varieties), cucumbers and basil. I do give an occasional slice of tomato (not the soft part where the seeds are, but closer to the skin) to my turtles. My turts hate cucumbers, though, so they're going to me all mine.

[grey goose]

Molly McButterpants, cousin of Spongebob....you know...Squarepants.
I didn't know you could offer Basil! I've been growing some for a friend of mine in my "lower forty".

[sleepygrl79]

Thanks for everyone's great input. Daily I'm learning!

I'm so glad people like the name of my little turt! When I tell people in person or on the phone I always get a laugh! It's actually a line out of King of Queens that my mate and I coined..(we use it for when we are being fatties or eat too much) Kinda fitting for our new "child" *lol*