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<blockquote data-quote="Tortoise Tom" data-source="post: 136886" data-attributes="member: 27883"><p>I have no way of knowing what the issue is there, but here is my take on "soil' as a substrate. Bought-in-a-bag soil from the hardware store or garden center is made from composted yard waste. It might be totally safe in one batch, and the next batch might be made with oleander and azalea clippings. No way to know. I know this because of the tortoises. I once bought some soil to use under some baby tortoises in an outdoor sunning cage. I wanted to grow lots of plants for them to graze on, so I used soil. Some of the soil had not completely composted and there were clearly jacaranda leaves in it. These are toxic if the tortoises eat it, and they are likely to eat it. Walk down the aisle at Home Depot and look at the tons upon tons of toxic yard chemicals that people are buying and spraying all over their yards and houses. These insecticides, fungicides, chemical fertilizers, and who knows what else, goes onto their yard, they mow it, throw the clippings in the bin, the bin gets picked up and taken to the companies that make the bought in a bag soil, and then it ends up on a shelf for us to buy. Or not. I choose not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tortoise Tom, post: 136886, member: 27883"] I have no way of knowing what the issue is there, but here is my take on "soil' as a substrate. Bought-in-a-bag soil from the hardware store or garden center is made from composted yard waste. It might be totally safe in one batch, and the next batch might be made with oleander and azalea clippings. No way to know. I know this because of the tortoises. I once bought some soil to use under some baby tortoises in an outdoor sunning cage. I wanted to grow lots of plants for them to graze on, so I used soil. Some of the soil had not completely composted and there were clearly jacaranda leaves in it. These are toxic if the tortoises eat it, and they are likely to eat it. Walk down the aisle at Home Depot and look at the tons upon tons of toxic yard chemicals that people are buying and spraying all over their yards and houses. These insecticides, fungicides, chemical fertilizers, and who knows what else, goes onto their yard, they mow it, throw the clippings in the bin, the bin gets picked up and taken to the companies that make the bought in a bag soil, and then it ends up on a shelf for us to buy. Or not. I choose not. [/QUOTE]
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