Prepping your yards?

[lismar79]

You do some of you prep your yards for your torts & how do you maintain them & keep bad weeds out? Do you do walk through & spot weed??? I do this now but my enclosure space is 20x20 so its not too hard.

I am pre-planning Harper's (11 month old sulcata) future out door enclosure for next summer in a space that has great light & good grass. I do however have a lot of "bad" weeds..... hence the reason for my rambling.

 

[wellington]

If I know it's bad, I will try to get rid of it. I don't otherwise do a lot of searching. I learned on here way back when I joined that most torts won't eat what is bad for them anyway. If you notice a bad plant and he eats it, get rid of it. If he leaves it along, so would I or at least not kill myself trying to get rid of it. Just cut the weed down when you mow the lawn.

 

[lismar79]

I worry because we took about 30 oak trees out two years ago and now I have a good amount of mushrooms and I caught my russian eating one. Also have a lot of creeping charlie mixed in the grass.

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

Creeping charlie is fine. Mt torts devour that stuff. I just weed it out if I spot something I don;t in there growing.

 

[lismar79]

Creeping charlie is fine. Mt torts devour that stuff. I just weed it out if I spot something I don;t in there growing.

This kind is toxic
http://m.thetortoisetable.org.uk/m/plants_19.asp?st=true&mode=main&catID=413

 

[Yellow Turtle01]

This kind is toxic
http://m.thetortoisetable.org.uk/m/plants_19.asp?st=true&mode=main&catID=413

Ohhhh... I have a different kind

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I agree. My torts seem to know the good and the bad. It's interesting to watch them go through the yard and select a special leaf or two out of the millions.