Planting Catnip

I grow it and my cat loves it. It was purchased with about 5 or 6 other herbs and before it was planted it sat on our back deck where our cat would knock it down and go crazy in it.
 

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So funny. I had 3 cats over the years and I grew catnip and none of them liked the stuff.

I read somewhere that there are a small percentage of cats that don't care for it.

But mine do!

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I wouldn't dare grow it outdoors, all the cats in the neighborhood would move into my back yard. I buy my cats the dry kind and they all love it. They do get aggressive and territorial around the catnip.
 
My cats used to love it. Even the dog, watching them bite it would try, but it didn't work for her.

I did find that, like most of the mint family it was somewhat invasive.

Some friends gave me a few plants some years ago and they grew fine for several years. I had a fence around them so the cats couldn't get to them and destroy them, but they died eventually.

They were under a black walnut so maybe that's why (some plants are okay under them, some are not) although they did fine for several years.
 
A bunch of spaced-out cats! I could never grow it. I tried transplanting growing plants and they died. Seeds never germinated. BTW - I remember reading or hearing a while back that 30% of cats do not react to catnip.
 
My cats used to love it. Even the dog, watching them bite it would try, but it didn't work for her.

I did find that, like most of the mint family it was somewhat invasive.
That's ANOTHER reason why I didn't grow it, besides being invaded by all the cats in my subdivision. And I really wanted to grow mint, love the smell.
 


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