Harvesting catnip: Our cats’ favourite day of the year.
One of the tasks on my weekend list of garden chores was to harvest the catnip that was doing its best to go to seed in the back yard. This was one of the things I actually got done, and now there are about a dozen large bunches of the stuff drying in my laundry room. Suddenly the cats are very interested in the laundry room…
They were also very interested in the plants I cut back on Monday morning.
Rudy stuck around the vegetable patch, where the majority of the catnip plants grow.
Farley stayed close to the deck, where I was bunching and tying the bundles for hanging.
Even the neighbourhood cats wanted in on the action!
All the cats want to party in our yard…
I can’t blame them for making your house Party Central.
I planted some catmint in a small container this year, and though my kitty has enjoyed the occasional nibble, I didn’t thin the plants out and they’re only a foot high or so, and won’t bloom, I’m sure. I am going to dry some of the leaves just the same. 
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Nancy was it catNIP or catMINT you planted? I have a bit of both and it’s definitely catnip, Nepeta cataria, that they really go for!
That is why I can not have these plants in my garden! All neighborhood cats will be here!
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[...] bigger than when I planted them in the ground back in late May. My most successful crop has been catnip, for crying out loud. And the broccoli? The broccoli harvest was probably the most pathetic of all [...]
those are the sweetest kitties! Makes me miss my sweet little old lady cat, Snowball…she smelled so good. Dang. She died last January, and is buried under my orange tree.
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@Jeannie I know how you feel…we have two other cats buried in our yard and I think about them all the time, too. xo
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