Homegrown Plants For Piggies.

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Is it easy to grow and store plants that piggies can eat? Mine eat only a few select veggies and would like more variety. Only things ive gotten them to eat so far is red and green leaf letruce, romaine lettuce, carrots, and celery and few pieces of cantaloupe. Ive tried bell pepper cucumber didn't touch it. What plants and such can I grow and store?
 
I grow my own herbs and tomatoes that they really enjoy. Herbs are easy and fresh veg is always better!

Gia xoxo
 
Chard is super easy and a favourite of the pigs, plantain too! There are loads, all types of herbs, lettuces, kale, strawberries and apple trees... The world is your metaphorical oyster! :))
 
I grow lettuce, carrots, potatoes (not for the pigs), peas in a pod, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, kale, flat and curley parsley, chick weed and dandilions, although I admit that last one grows itself! I also have a variety of fruit and berry bushes :)
 
I hardly buy any veg just now as I give them loads of hand cut grass (don't use lawnmower clippings), strawberry leaves, dandelion leaves, plantain, sticky willy (didn't like it), leaves from berry bushes, leaves from the cauliflower and broccoli I'm growing. Not all at once, I mix it up every day. It's fun to try things out. I always make sure I know exactly what a plant is and then look up either on here or Google some other sites to check it's safe. If in any doubt - don't. Happy munching for your piggies x
 
We grew loads of plants for our rabbits and guinea pigs, and I'm a very much plant it and let it grow kinda gardener! We had lettuce, carrots, herbs, chard, tomatoes, beans, courgettes, broccoli and loads more.. and then the rabbits found the vegetable patch and they all disappeared :)). The chard has survived 2 winters now and is still going strong as they have decided they no longer like it!

I'm buying some seeds from 'Shelled Warriors' online to grow grasses and wild plants for them to eat more of and to lower food bill costs.
 
The cat got all mine, laid on all my parsley. It's recovering now but I can't use it in case it's been peed all over. Next year I shall put up a polythene green house & use that.
 
I grow herbs outdoors for my pigs, l use large black buckets , l make holes in the bottom and fill them with peat based compost!
If you want a quick fix then instead of sowing seeds , you can buy herbs already growing in small pots from supermarkets
Take them outf there small pots and re pot the herb's in the large buckets
It's realy supprizing how quickly they spread
 
sarah298 said:
I'm buying some seeds from 'Shelled Warriors' online to grow grasses and wild plants for them to eat more of and to lower food bill costs.
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Thank you for this! For a long time i have wanted to sow fast growing, tall grasses for the piggies but have only been able to find them available in large quantities, ie enough to sow a paddock. The only seed in small quantities available has been for patching up lawns and therefore is slow growing dwarf rye grass. I would never have thought to look on a tortoise site:)
 
I have a veg patch containing cauli, cabbage, carrots, beetroot and green beans, dandylions, milk thistle and grass. In the greenhouse I have parsley, corriander, tomatoes and cucumber. On the kitchen window ledge I have corriander and parsley, on the patio I have large pots containing fine green beans and carrots. Wilko's do a range of seeds for container growing which are easy to grow and it's easier to control slugs and snails, I loose a lot of veg in the veg patch to slugs and snails. :hb: The resident hedgehogs can't eat them fast enough.
 
I've just bought seeds online from Galen's Garden. Orchard grass, Timothy and a meadow mix which includes grasses, clover,plantain and a whole bunch or other herbs and plants safe for guinea pigs. You can choose size, I bought the smallest. It's all starting to poke through the soil now!
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Thank you for this! For a long time i have wanted to sow fast growing, tall grasses for the piggies but have only been able to find them available in large quantities, ie enough to sow a paddock. The only seed in small quantities available has been for patching up lawns and therefore is slow growing dwarf rye grass. I would never have thought to look on a tortoise site:)
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ive not got a big enough garden,but i go to the woods and go for a walk,pick forage for my piggies,give some leafy greens in the mix,eg kale,spring greens,broccoli,sovoy cabbage.bell peppers
 
Pound Shilling & Pig said:
Thank you for this! For a long time i have wanted to sow fast growing, tall grasses for the piggies but have only been able to find them available in large quantities, ie enough to sow a paddock. The only seed in small quantities available has been for patching up lawns and therefore is slow growing dwarf rye grass. I would never have thought to look on a tortoise site:)
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For a small meadow area, you want to buy from Naturesscape :) They tell you the sowing rate, you measure your area, do the maths for how much or little you need and input the amount. The minimum buy is 100g - more than I explicitly needed for my tiny front garden, but was the best value for money. Plus with the leftovers from the first sowing, I went back over a year later to fill in the gaps. They do different mixes depending on your soil type, so that you have the best species for your growing conditions too.
100% Grass Mixtures | Naturescape
 
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