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It’s a good week to be a tortoise: plenty of weeds on the walk to the farmers market, then some interesting things there. They were selling fresh alfalfa at one stand, which I haven’t seen in years. Alfalfa is fed to livestock; humans usually only see the sprouts? What is a human supposed to do...

Time for an annual bump, as she came out of her fridge Friday. Given she was eating five minutes after her first soak (girl, what!), the handful of weeds I had on hand didn’t last the day. It was too windy to enjoy the idea of a field expedition the next day so we drove to the farmers market...

Dang it, no, it’s too skinny for me to tell! It’s definitely a brassica, the four-petaled yellow flower shows it. Is it a cress? A scruffy wallflower? Something else altogether? I don’t know! One way or another, it’s safe.

How cool, I have never seen this plant up close. Is it good for your tortoise, I don’t know, but it’s good for bugs and bees and probably the soil. I’d leave it unless it was taking over the yard, crowding out something you know they like. There is no obvious reason to think it’s harmful and I...

They are all fine as part of a varied diet. Agave is not a fun plant to take care of and I don’t know many folks who grow celeriac but if you want to, go for it! Your tortoise will not eat all of these, but that doesn’t mean they are “bad.” Just not a favorite.

I don’t see anything troublesome. I’m not familiar with redbud but it’s in the legume family, which generally isn’t problematic. I don’t do trees—we have so few in this scrubby climate—but a quick search here shows plenty of members feeding maple leaves successfully. You probably already know...

Not straight down, at least not I’d feel good about. Can you get a side view? You might have to move some of that other stuff out of the way.

They’re all fine, although if you have space with things already growing I’d identify them first, you’ve probably got a bunch of stuff growing already. If I were to plant any of these it would be the alyssum. Supposedly a native food for them and very easy to grow. My Russian really enjoyed it...

Agree on the mizuna.

Why not give it a couple of weeks inside and see what you get? Or split it half and half with trying to replant. What’s the worst that can happen? Maybe you get a few small but delicious plants.

Warnings about oxalates are out of date, ignore them. I’m not sure if you have only sunflowers at this point. For sunflowers, some sprouts are fine. Not a ton, as they are higher in plant protein than some other plants. All animals need protein! But tortoises don’t need a ton. He may not like...

One is kale, with the yellow flower.

Tortoises: they do what they want, when they want.

AI is crowdsourced, it’s no better than the opinions of a bunch of people or bots who are just repeating what they’ve read. Maybe they know something useful, often they don’t. This particular group of people doesn’t know anything, radish is fine as part of a varied diet. Those warnings are...

Because it tastes good. That’s it.