I was not the plant killer
Yesterday it was sunny and beautiful, and I went to the market to buy groceries and a few herbs. Basil is not available yet, but they had cilantro and oregano and catnip! And others too, of course, but those were the three I ended up buying.
Matilda was — unusually — uninterested in the catnip plant. I held her at it, and nothing. Eventually I pulled off two leaves, and she ate those. Okay, I thought, catnip plant wasn’t an ideal choice, and I put it in the box with lots of other herbs. During the night Matilda started meowing weirdly, and when I looked she was at the back porch, meowing at a (non-stray, but new-to-me) black cat who was sitting on my pillows and my downstairs neighbour’s cat who was again sitting on the top of the door. I went outside and shooed them away. No making my cat crazy!
This morning when I went onto my back porch, I noticed that my herbs had been totally trampled, and hey, where’s the catnip?
There are now a few little baby shoots left, so the plant is still alive. The back porch is the sunny area, but it’s also not possible to keep cats from getting onto it. It will apparently be safe inside, but then it’s not as sunny. It could go on my front balcony, but my front balcony faces north. On the other hand, the seeds I planted there are growing ok, it seems, so far.
May 25th, 2006 at 9:55 am
hanging basket?
May 25th, 2006 at 10:42 am
They could — and, apparently, would — jump onto it. (Not that I have a place to hang it from, but even if I did, it would be impossible to place it somewhere a cat couldn’t get to it.)
May 25th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
Do you cook with catnip? Is that even something that is doable. Like, can you make rosemary catnip chicken or some such keen-ness?
May 25th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
I guess you could use it, it’s a mint. Tea?