I was out back, checking up on my catnip plants and it was amazing!
Look at how overgrown it has gotten! A catnip harvest was long overdue.
Some of the catnip was in full bloom — a lovely time to harvest it. Some of it was past the flowering stage. Some shoots were still young. It was kind of a mess… but I didn’t care! I just wanted to whiff.
But it was time to get to work and supervise my human as she cut back the catnip. It’s a very important job, and I needed to make sure she didn’t mess it up.
Plus her hand smelled heavenly when she was finished.
So I had a taste… I mean, how could I resist?
Look at all the catnip we harvested! My human actually read up on how to dry it so she could do it in a way that would best preserve the potent oils. So now the bunches are tied together and hanging in a dark corner of the half bath in the enclosed patio. And there’s still enough nip in the planter if I want to have it fresh!
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Ours looked much the same, but to our horror – the man-person threw the trimmings into the COMPOST PILE! Grrrr….
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Hi Summer. Oh My Catness thanks fur bringing some of your fresh nip to my birthday pawty. I really was delightful and even more so was your company. Thank Mew!
Oh my mouses, Summer. I am SOOOOO jealous. As you know, my peep is a total failure on the nip-growin’ front. As if the two (formerly three) half-dead grown-up plants weren’t bad enough, the babies she started are disappearin’, one by one. I’m pretty sure Tobias is to blame for that. Her paws are small enough to fit through the netting and every day, there are fewer babies left than there were the day before. MOUSES!
Fresh homegrown ‘nip? SCORE!!!!
Wow, that’s quite a harvest.
One of our previous kitties liked to lay in the catnip bushes.
Woohoo! That’s quite the nip harvest, Summer! You, Boodie and Binga are going to have quite the stockpile!
That is a great harvest, Summer! Ours are big like that and the flowers are SWARMING with bees. In fact, TBT says he needs to cut a couple plants short cuz they are flopping all over the path from the deck and he dares not disturb so many bees at once. We just ignore them without problems, but then we are down at ground level.
OMC! Look at all that nip! You guys are gonna have one big nip party!!
Whoa@! You did a fine job supervising the harvest and what a bumper crop you had this year.
What an amazing harvest, Summer. Mom doesn’t know what happened to our nip. It was healthy and beautiful one day and dead the next! We are not happy campers. Guess there is always next year! XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
It’s a wonder you haven’t called every cat in the neighborhood to your yard!
We get some, but not as many as you would think!
That is quite a harvest! That is great that you will have a stash dried plus still have fresh.
That is a great crop of nip. You all are going to have a wonderful winter.
WOW!!! That’s a miracle! Isn’t this the first year she didn’t destroy the harvest? 😉
Wow ! That’s a lot of catnip ! Home grown catnip is the best, fresh or dried. Purrs
Love the photos!
Wow, that is a lot of catnip. Bet it will be so good when it is dried out.
Oh wow! That catnip looks amazing! We wish our humans could grow us some like that!
We’re so jealous!! all that fresh nip. Did you get to roll in it ?
Wait, that never occurred to me! 🙁
Wow! Talk about the motherlode! That is quite amazing, Summer!
Purrs,
The Chans
WOW. Wish I could be there to smell the fresh nip. Fresh catnip and freshly dried catnip is the best.
Summer. . . what a lucky girl you are!! What a harvest!! My 12 adopted/rescued kitties are so jealous!! I don’t have a yard (I live in an apartment), and the kitties never let one grow long enough to do anything with it!! Enjoy and have a blessed, pawsome day!! We love you!! ♥♥♥
Wow….that’s quite a haul
I love watching the love between you and your Mom, Summer. Even when the whiff of catnip was a teeny tiny part of it 🙂
Mmmmmmm….. we can practically smell that catnip through the internet. Enjoy!
Holy cow, what a bounty! We think there’s going to be a party at your house tonight, Summer!
Amazing harvest!!! Mom always deads ours 🙁
The Florida Furkids
How amazing! This truly is a great day for nipping and then napping followed by grazing. We are so impressed with the harvest this year. Looks so beautiful and yummy. Your mom is the best. We gotta get on our mom to plant some too. Have a super Caturday! Did Binga and Boodie get some too? Purrs
Awesome!!!
Catnip and harvest are two words I love in the same sentence.
Hugs madi your bfff
WOW! It looks like harvest day was filled with fun pretty Summer!
That is impressive! I bet it smells nice to humans as well with all the flowers.
Wow! What a haul! Are you girls going to have a nip party?
WOW!
That’s a lot of nip 🙂
You kitties will be happy forever 😉
MOL!
Purrs Georgia and Julie,
Treasure and JJ
Summer! WHAT a HAUL! Mom here should get busy again and plant some. She has been lazy. I hope it would;t bring any gentlemencat callers though. I get pretty pi$$ed at that!
Wow! What a catastic harvest! You, Binga, and Boodie will enjoy it all winter.
Wow what a lot of catnip we bet it smells wonderful but hope it doesn’t send you all stir crazy!