Lambs lettuce

[Mary from Kansas]

Anyone use lambs lettuce as a variety in their tortoises diet?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Anyone use lambs lettuce as a variety in their tortoises diet?

Yep, i do.
It's fine and healthy as part of a varied diet and Tidgy loves it.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I should perhaps mention that wifey likes it too.
She fights Tidgy for it.

 

[saginawhxc]

I don't think I even know what lambs lettuce is.

 

[Villa La Tartaruga]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerianella_locusta

 

[Villa La Tartaruga]

http://www.growitalian.com/valeriana-verte-de-cambrai-140-6/

 

[saginawhxc]

Yeah. I had to look it up.

 

[Yvonne G]

A couple years ago I bought a seed packet on line for "various lettuces." Corn salad popped up all over my garden. I had no idea what it was, but was eventually able to find it online and found that it is edible. I harvested it along with the other greens, and none of my tortoises ate it.

 

[Mary from Kansas]

I'm going to grow some and try it. Hopefully Geronimo will like it. So far he is a fan of dandelions leaves, romaine lettuce ( which I want to replace the romaine with lambs lettuce ) and cactus. Those are his favorites. So far I'm lucky in that he will eat about anything I give him, but if one of those three are in the mix they get eaten up in a hurry.

 

[saginawhxc]

Now I want to track some down.