On 19/04/2013 08:05, Jake wrote:
On Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:49:36 +0000, Nehemiah
wrote:
Hi,
Can anyone, very simply, please direct me as to how I would go about
growing this?
I've pretty much never grown anything...However I would like to liven
the garden up for our cat - which is unfortunately mostly concrete
meaning most of this would need to be in pots or planters - and would
also maybe like to also add something like valerian or lavender.
What exactly do I need? I'm thinking of buying this wishing well planter
which I think probably has about an 40-50cm diameter, would I be able to
grow catmint/grass in something like that or is it would it be too big?
I seem to only see it in little pots...
Tx
You're talking about two different plants. Catmint (nepeta, sometimes
called catnip) is a flowering plant that cats seem to love rolling in.
I grow a few plants which, although perennial, need to be replaced
each year as resident cat curls up on them in the sun and smothers
them. But it's really a ground plant.
Cat grass is grown indoors. Search for "cat grass" at Amazon. It's
used as a digestive aid, in my case as an alternative to resident cat
destroying my miscanthus. You generally buy it as a little tub which
seems to be filled with nothing but vermiculite. Add water and place
the tub somewhere warm and light but out of direct sunlight. A week
later and you have 6" tall grass. Then put the tub somewhere on the
floor and if your cat's anything like mine, you soon have an empty tub
and a floor covered in vermiculite 
Only thing to remember is that your cat may not like one or both
plants. Cats are like that!
Cheers, Jake
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Urgling from the East end of Swansea Bay where the
showers of April have arrived!
Some cats go wild around cat mint others just ignore it I remember
selling a very large plant in a 9 inch pot to a lady, the next week she
was back wanting to know if I had another as her cat had destroyed the
first.
My cat would just walk past, no reaction.
As for cat grass, it's something to help their digestion, a form of
wheat mostly.
For the best buy try
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/60g-WHEATG...e#ht_644wt_722
just grow a potful a week.