It'll soon be time to get some catnip plants on the go and if you are at all green fingered, I recommend growing your own catnip for kitty.
Catnip, or Nepeta Cataria to give it it's proper name, grows as happily and readily as mint herb (being part of the same family). Fred just loves home-grown catnip. Once the plant is mature and starting to harden off, I usually cut back the growth and leave it somewhere to dry out. He loves the smell of the bruised plant and loves the dried out stuff even more, which is usually so plentiful it keeps him going through the winter. The only word of warning I have is that as a cat's sense of smell is umpti-times greater than ours, all the cats in the neighbourhood will smell your catnip plants and follow the scent to your garden like the Bisto kid! Worth it to treat your cat though!
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