Make Your Cat Happy By Learn How to Grow Catnip Plants

Growing Catnip Plant you are choosing an easy to care for perennial that will make your cat happy. The catnip plant needs average soil, lots of sun and a moderate amount of water. Catnip seeds are easy to grow indoors or outdoors, catnip seedlings can also be found at pet supply stores and at nursery and garden centers in the spring. Catnip Plants can also be purchased online any time of the year. This article will teach you how to grow catnip plant and make your cat happy.


Instructions

   1. Choose a site in your yard or garden to plant your catnip plant or start your catnip seeds, the site should have Full sun to partial shade, adequate soil and receive moderate rainfall. Enjoying more than 6 or more hours per day is a full sun garden.

   2. Understand watering needs of Catnip Plants. Keep the soil moist continuously. Water at the rate of one inch a week during the first year until the catnip plants are well established. Once established, catnip plants are drought tolerant.

   3. Protect the catnip seeds and catnip plants from neighborhood cats by placing a wire guard over the catnip seeds or catnip seedlings, cats will be drawn to the catnip and roll around with abandon. Rolling on the catnip plants repeatedly kills the plant. Protecting the base of the plant with a wire guard will keep the plant alive while the branches of the catnip plant will grow through and the cats can roll on the ends of the branches.

   4. Consider planting the caatnip plant in a place where it cannot spread unchecked. This means a strip of land between a driveway and walkway, in a container garden or other physical boundary.

   5. Prune the plant after blooming and bring the catnip seed pods inside the house to dry. After drying, keep them in a glass jar to give to your cat to make them happy. Put crushed catnip leaves in their water dish. Give them springs of the catnip plant to play with, your cat will be happy with more catnip in their lives.