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I have several weeds/plants growing in my yard and would like to know if anyone knows what these are and if they are ok for my baby Sulcatas to eat:

I'm not that fabulous at IDing plants but here are a few website URLs that may help you:

http://envhort.ucdavis.edu/ce/king/PoisPlant/Tox-COM.htm

http://envhort.ucdavis.edu/ce/king/PoisPlant/SAFE-COM.htm

http://www.turtlestuff.com/ingredients.html

http://www.weedalert.com/cgi-bin/weedalerts.cgi?region=so

http://www.enature.com

I bought Peterson's Field Guides to Poisonous Plants, 1 for Medicinal Plants & 1 for Wildflowers for my region of the country. Those books were a huge help to me when we first got our sulcata. I did find 4 poisonous plants in my yard & pulled them up. You might want to buy at least the one on poisonous plants for your own peace of mind.
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PHRatz

Thank you for that info. I have found a lot already on edible plants and have 5 of them growing in my yard. Since they are just babies, they will have a good variety for now and will not be outside to eat whatever they want for right now. Next as you suggested is to find out the poisonous ones and the book may be the way to go.

Thanks again

I had 4 O'clocks in my flower garden & found out they're poisonous so I dug up what I could then I set bricks on top of those I couldn't dig up so they died eventually.
I don't have a flower garden any more. Almost all the bulb flowers are poisonous, I had finally gotten the huge bag of bulbs I'd planted to grow then I had to dig them all up lol.

Now that I finally am rid of all those, I'd like to try growing edible flowers but I don't have place to grow them at the moment, I need to block an area off so I can cultivate them away from her. We planted spineless cactus for her & had to fence it off so that she won't destroy it all.

As for the poisonous weeds, we had 3 different types of spurge and silverleaf nightshades in the yard, if it hadn't been for that field guide I wouldn't have known which weed is which.
I had to dig all that up but because they're native weeds, they still blow into the lawn & grow so I still have to yank them up when I see them.

On the other hand we began using organic fertilizer, & I now water the dandelions so they will grow. After all those years of trying to rid the lawn of dandelions, lol!
Lots of things had to change when we put a sulcata in the yard but she's worth it.
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PHRatz

That's probably what I'll have to do also. There are so many different weeds & wildflowers in our yard. Maybe what I should do is get a list of poisonous ones and look them up to see what they look like. I know what you mean about the dandelions though, for years it was a battle to keep them from growing, now I need them

>> There are so many different weeds & wildflowers in our yard.
I know how that goes.

For years we've had renters on one side of us, nobody on the other side, nobody behind or in front meaning nobody mowed or planted a lawn so the weeds that blew in then grew in our lawn have done so in massive amounts.
Today there are more people here with lawns who do mow but still every year we find something growing that we've never seen before. It's sometimes confusting to say the least trying to determine which weeds have to be pulled up & which ones are ok to stay.
If I hadn't had something to look at, it would've been a lot harder.
I have found that no, it's not true that a captive bred pet tortoise always knows which weeds are ok to eat & which aren't.
SO that's life with tortoises.
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PHRatz