PET FOOD
Words & photos Claire Bickle
Gardening isn’t only about growing our own food and making things look pretty. There are other dimensions to explore when designing and choosing your planting palette. What about selecting plants that benefit your pets and even local wildlife?
For me, this happens automatically. Growing edibles for our guinea pig team and, of course, our poultry flock reduces the feed bill and gives our pets their much-needed vitamin and mineral requirements via greens, herbs and vegetables.
You can also create habitat and food sources for local wildlife, including insects.
So which plants for what animal?
FELINE FRIENDS
Cat grass or pet grass helps cats with digestion and removal of fur balls and gives them a great range of vitamins and minerals in their diets. Plants such as catnip, catmint and cat thyme are amusement plants for your cats as they
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