New and really need advice

Hello guys, im new to this forum and i needs some help.

Basically, i have a tortoise and i want to feed my tort the best weeds available. To do this i need to know the nutrional values of the weeds. I thought seeing as this is a gardening forum, you may be able to help. Below is a list of good healthy weeds/plants that my tortoise can eat. I have already done alot of research and found out about other such as dandelions, chicory, watercress and endive but i really need to find more.

Hawk Beards
Nipplewort
Sow thistle
Plaintain
Mallow
Bittercress
Shepards purse
Clover
Common Vetch
Sainfoin
Bindweed
Honeysuckle
Nettle
Campunaula (sp)
Rose petals
Nasturtium
Pansy
Chrysanthemum

Would anyone here know how to get the following information, either a link or maybe you know what it is.

Protein:
Fibre:
Calcium:
Phospherous:
Iron:
Sodium:
Vitimin B6:
Vitimin C:
Vitimin E:
Vitimin K:

This is the main information i need, and as i said before, i only ask as you are gardeners (more so than me) and i hope you will have alot more knowledge than me.

Thanks

 

Hi.

I see Bindweed in your list. The very name sends shudders down my spine. Once you've got that in, you've got no chance of having a garden with much else in it, and it will upset your neighbours too. You can't control the stuff.

Also, I'm sure Tortoises have different metabolisms to us, but bindweed seeds are mildly narcotic and hallucinagenic, although to be fair it might be difficult to tell if a toroise is away with the fairies

 

Thanks for the replies, and thnaks for deleting the other posts.

I was on tht tlady site, it gives the names of the weeds/plants that are suitable, but i was looking to find the nutrional/mineral content ,hence why i asked on here.

Time for more googling me thinks.

 

Hi, thanks for the link. No that is not what i was looking for, thanks for trying though. I have decided to grow my own weeds, well at least try. i have been trying to but for the life of me i cant grow anything. I have tried outside, i have tried indoors, they grow a little bit then die, does anuyone here know how to?

 

If you dig it, they will come.

Funnily enough, Dandelions don't grow on my land, despite them growing everywhere else, so perhaps they are more fussy than we think. Perhaps they only grow where they're not wanted (in fact the definition of a weed is just a plant that grows where you don't want it).

You won't get much to grow at this time of year. You'll get stuff to germinate, but there isn't enough sunlight for them yet, so they will grow tall and weak and then just collapse and die.

Nasturtium is in your list, this is about the easiest thing in the world to grow. Just poke the seeds into the ground and wait. They thrive in poor soil where other plants may struggle.

If you really want to grow Dandelions or other weeds, just wait until a neighbour is doing a spot of weeding and ask them for the roots they pull up and spread them on your garden, giving them a light covering of soil or compost.

What about sowing a wildflower meadow? You can buy native seed mixes online or in some nurseries.

I know nothing about Tortoises other than that they can't run very fast and when they grow old it is hard to tell if they are still alive or not, so I don't know what they can and can't eat or whether they have an instinctive knowledge of what is edible and what isn't, but if you look at the various wildflower meadow mixes on sale, they generally tell you what's in them.

 

Hi, thanks for your informative reply. I have another list of things tht they can eat, all flowers and plants so can you let me know if they easy to grow and what i will have to do. I have never gardened before.

Abutilon

Antirrhinum (Snapdragon)

Bell Flower

Campanula

Cranesbill Geranium

Day Lily

Geranium (Small and large hardy perennials)

Marigold

Musk Mallow

Pansy

Ice Plant

Hibiscus

Abutilon

Rose (Shrubs)

I dont plan on growing all these, just a small few that are easy to grow and will need absolute minimal effort. Hope you all can help with your gardening expertise.

Thanks