• How To Grow Catnip Seeds

    Date: 2010.03.02 | Category: how to grow cat nip seeds | Tags: ,,,,,,,,


    Catnip is a favored asset when it comes to pleasing your cat, or even simply entertaining yourself. If you are unaware catnip is a mint related plant which has a strong appeal to cats, cats will hungrily eat, consume, and roll allover the plant. Catnip is much like the happy drug for cats. Problem is the plant can be rather expensive purchasing from pet stores being cats will consume catnip so quickly. This article will help you understand how you can easily grow it yourself.

    First thing you need is some seeds to start growing your plant, you can find catnip seeds at any online pet products store, gardening store, and sometimes miscellaneous other stores. Before you seek out to purchase seeds you may want to make sure you do not already have some in your yard already. Catnip is a highly invasive plant which multiplies quickly and once it begins spreading it can be hard to control.

    Whether you are planning to plant your plant either outdoors or indoors to successfully and properly grow catnip you need to be sure your plant can get what it needs to grow. If you live in an area which does not get sunny often it would be best to plant your plant and grow it indoors. Catnip needs a lot of sunlight and moisture in the soil to grow efficiently.

    Fertilizer just like with any other plant should be supplemented into the soil of your plant at least 2 to 3 times a year if you would like your plant to meet the optimum development potential which it could reach.

    Once you have successfully planted your plant seeds and you are getting your first stems with leaves, pinch and prune these leaves down so that the stems multiply into more stems leading to a much thicker plant. This will double to triple the amount of harvest you achieve from your plant.

    To protect your plant from other threats such as cats (Yes cats will work hard usually to eat the plant before it is even fully grown.) if your plant is outdoors use a fence or wire cage to prevent neighbors cats from eating your plant while you are indoors, if your plant is indoors consider keeping your plant at a high elevation or in a room which your cat will not be able to access.

    During off seasons you should consider harvesting and keeping some of the plant to the side being the plant may get buried in snow or die due to harsh weather, but may return in the springtime although typically this is a yearlong plant in the right conditions. It can either be stored by drying or freezing in air tight containers such as plastic bags like zip lock.

    Remember although if you do grow the plant in your yard outdoors you risk not only spreading a plant invasion throughout your garden, but also attracting all the neighbor’s cats into your yard. Some other animals I have personally experienced being attracted to this type of plant are possums, skunks, and the occasional oddball raccoon.