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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Ruth n Jersey said:
So funny. I had 3 cats over the years and I grew catnip and none of them liked the stuff.
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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.
 
RadishRose said:
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.
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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.
 
RadishRose said:
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.
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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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