Hi! I'm a newbie, and I'm working here in Philadelphia planning a raised veggie bed, to grow tomatoes, squash, etc. for our family and an insane iguana. Is this stuff safe? It works great with houseplants and flowers, since I am one of those who forgets to water, so I would love to use if, but I don't want to poison anyone.
By the way, my user name was copied from our iguana.. All the other names we call him were taken, and he's truly earned the name of "Nutcase".
Is "Soil Moist" safe to use with vegetables?
As far as I understand they are nontoxic and safe for food crops. But I don't know on their safety for an iguana. Maybe you could call the company and ask.
Here's an artical writen a while back.
(http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/1092/)
To be safe, why not use a natural moisturizing agent, like peat moss or coconut coir. Using a pot with a reservoir works, and a self watering pot is better still.
No matter how safe the pot is to your iguana, I am pretty sure your plants are not safe from your iguana. I seem to remember various threads about iguanas wiping out seedlings for lunch.
Hi.guys. This is Nutcase in Penna. First of all, thanks for all the info. I have been using Soil Moist with my veggies for the last few years, and for my houseplants forever, but I heard a rumor that it might be harmful, to use on veggies,so I didn't this year .. However, either our resident groundhog or lots of bunnies are chewing up my plants, so they may not make it through a drought. I ordered a groundhog/bunny repellant, and hope it works.Anybody use anything that worked?
Now, about my iguana. The first three iguanas I owned were wonderful, my last one was incredibly good. Siegfried never did a bad thing in his life, but he died at 12 years and six feet long.Heartbroken, I bought Murphy, AKA as The Nutcase. As a baby, he was anorexic, bipolar (he would either not move for a week or attack us,) catatonic, sneaky, anti female (he still prefers my husband),, paranoid, and a victim of ADD, which I don't remember the meaning of, but it means "bad on purpose".
When he put him in a bigger cage, he seemed to quiet down...then he hit mating season, and realized that he an Alpha male iguana.. Not only has he turned orange , but he lunges at us, mouth agape, then loses his balance and falls with quite a loud thud to the bottom of his cage.I don't know why he hasn't broken every bone in his body, or his 6 ft. Plexiglass cage.This can happen 20 times a day, especially when I walk by. But at least he's eating now, and is quite large.He seems a little less crazy the last few days, so maybe he will calm down.
I don't ever take him outside, or let him get out of his cage, so I don't have to worry about what he will do to my plants.
Thanks for the info and God Bless. The Nutcase Owner
I use 2' high 3' wide, 6' long wooden frames with cedar slat floors, covered with hardware cloth for the bottom and sides. The top is covered with deer netting, sometimes to a height of 6' feet or more, and held in place with garden-velcro and clothes pins. I euphemistically call these armored enclosures "planters". I put my pots (and plants) inside. This effectively stops birds, deer, squirrels, groundhogs, chipmunks and bunnies. In fact, my main tomato planter has a family of bunnies living underneath it, and they never touch my stuff. It is long lasting, non-polluting and eco-friendly. :))
Ed
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