she cant eat whole carrots, they're too big and hard for her to bite thru. but she enjoys carrots. and now the grocery store by me carries little bags of julienned carrots, which are perfect for her (and easy to add to various meals i make)
my aloe plants have lots of babies, so i pull them out and stick them in their own pot for a year. i always need fresh aloe. its good for burns!
then after a year i stick them in in the tortoise enclosure
the tortoise eats and crawls all over them
my mother aloe plants, the oldest ones i currently have. not the original one tho, that one fell over. it was growing sideways and tipped the pot over. and since i have had plenty of healthy exuberant aloe babies over the years, no sense in keeping an uncooperative one.
this years babies. they're a duller color because they were out in the greenhouse getting much much stronger sun. they greened up within days of being brought indoors for the winter.
aloe is the only houseplant i can keep alive. i'm a great OUTDOOR gardener. indoors i tend to forget and neglect and kill off houseplants. aloe thrives on neglect. only remember to water it once a month? thats fine! its happy! i can succeed with my spring seedlings because its only just two months, and its daily planting, tending, and repotting. every day there is something more to plant or pot or water or do SOMETHING to. its a constant. not like houseplants which are too easily forgotten. and after only two months, then all the seedlings go outdoors and everything is as it should be.
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