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I understand that you should never feed torts grass or weeds from a lawn that has been sprayed with chemicals to control weeds.

4 months ago I put in a new lawn from scratch. I brought in new dirt and sprayed it with grass feed granuals before I seeded it. That's the extent of chemical treatment that it has ever received. After all this time, with daily waterings, I'd imagine that the chemical feed I added has been pretty deluded. The grass has come in well.

My question is this: since nothing has ever been sprayed on the new grass (and subsequent weeds), am I correct in assuming that it's ok to let the torts roam the grass and eat what they want?

To clarify: it's only the bare DIRT that was treated with plant food (not weed poison)

Any and all vegetation is clean and always has been.

It sounds as though you should be fine. For what it is worth, I used to spray down my tortoise yards with Miracle Grow in the evening and put the tortoises back into them the next day. It never hurt any of my animals. What you have done sounds even less risky to me.