Plant showcase: “Catnip.” In my youth...I would buy my cats dried catnip at the ...

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... store and give it to them and it always amazed me a plant could make cats get so frisky and playful when they smelled it and ate it. Well, fast forward to...now and we have it growing outside in the food forest for ol’ Frank the cat. He loves it!!!! You can see him in the background eyeing his stash down. Many uses for humans too but our old cat frank has enjoyed this colony of catnip for many years now. He eats it and rolls in it. It’s an extremely hardy and easy plant to grow and has adapted to different areas in our food forest. If you have a cat, grow them their own stash of chronic catnip! lol cheers and have fun growing!! I’ll post a link below of our favorite place to scoop herb seeds like catnip. Thanks for tuning in. A new dtube video tour coming tomorrow. -Jake and the Raw Utah family

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"Strictly Medicinal Seeds"...is where we scooped out catnip seeds.

"(Catmint) Short-lived herbaceous perennial. Native to Europe. Downy, light green foliage with dense, white-green flowering racemes. Traditional usage (TWM): Sedative, aromatic, narcotic to cats. Flowers to 5 feet. Plant prefers full sun and dryish, fast-draining soils. If you ever want to get rid of catnip, just overwater it and it will go away. Or, bruise the leaves a little and the neighborhood cats will probably love it to death. Meanwhile most of us like it alot and will lightly scarify the seeds and sow in spring. Use a flat in the greenhouse or scatter on a prepared bed in the garden. Slow, low, and spotty germ is normal with this seed that is naturally loaded with germination inhibiting compounds. But that won’t slow it down permanently–the seed will eventually come up, either in a place where you planted it, or (almost magically) somewhere else, where worm, or crow, or stickyfooted butterfly deposited it. Space plants 2 feet apart"

https://strictlymedicinalseeds.com/product/catnip-official-nepeta-cataria-seeds-organic/

Haha... ".. eyeing his stash down". You're funny. 🤣

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lol...it makes life fun!!!!!!! :)

Oh wow! Frank The Cat has it made! There is a Morris looking feral cat that comes around here- we are close to Downtown Richmond, VA and there are feral cats at every other block no joke! We trapped 7 of them and nhad them all fixed and are now our outside feral cats. I am scared to plant this catnip as I think it would attract more cats here and we don't want that LOL!! However, when we move in the future I will definitely have like 2 acres or so for them and will for sure plant it for them! This is a great idea! So cool what you have at your Garden/Farms!

morning clove!!! :) that's so cool you took it upon yourselves...to take care to those cats. geez...sounds like an outbreak of cats near downtown richmond. must be tons of birds....nobody sees anymore lol!!!! thanks for your kinds words clove...and all you do for steem monsters...and this blockchain!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i can see you 2 acres......now! a sea of green! hey..and thanks for the resteem!!! :)

Beautiful and extraordinary plants with a myriad of uses for health.

Anyway, Seha likes shooting techniques, it's beautiful.
Everything looks green in the hands of experts. :))

Hopefully your day will always be green, brother.

oh wow...sister seha!!!!!!!! :)))) you're back!!!! i've been thinking about you and hoping you're well. thank you!!!!!! i've missed your posts and comments!!!!! much aloha from our whole family to you!!! green days...my sister!!! :) spring has arrived!

Something for everyone in the family on that forest brother! Keep it going!

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gotta have a plant that each member of the family enjoys in the food forest ;) cheers brother....more on the way!

Wow ... that plant is very liked by your cat. Maybe by kissing the plant can increase its appetite. I also like cats, Jake ... cats and plants are harmonious nature and make me happy.

cats, plants and nature.....oh yessss! they flow!!! harmonious indeed my sister! thank you!! :) they make me very happy too!

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