Comments on: Catnip, anyone? http://www.beerorkid.com/2007/08/20/catnip-anyone/ A bunch of useless crap Lincoln Ne Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:58:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: jake rhymes with cake http://www.beerorkid.com/2007/08/20/catnip-anyone/#comment-15153 jake rhymes with cake Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:35:46 +0000 http://www.beerorkid.com/2007/08/20/catnip-anyone/#comment-15153 found out my cats really really really hate peppermint. as i have a plant growing on my belcony. i thought they might like it because catnip is in the same family. NOPE! it burns they're little eyes, and they squish up their faces and bat at it with their paws. they hate it. absolutely hate it. LOL! i'll just start putting in places i don't want them to go. lol. found out my cats really really really hate peppermint. as i have a plant growing on my belcony. i thought they might like it because catnip is in the same family. NOPE! it burns they’re little eyes, and they squish up their faces and bat at it with their paws. they hate it. absolutely hate it. LOL!

i’ll just start putting in places i don’t want them to go. lol.

]]> By: jake rhymes with cake http://www.beerorkid.com/2007/08/20/catnip-anyone/#comment-15151 jake rhymes with cake Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:32:08 +0000 http://www.beerorkid.com/2007/08/20/catnip-anyone/#comment-15151 nope, that's definitely not catnip. but yes, it does look like mint. they're in the same family actually. and there's also catmint or <i>Nepeta faassenii</i> which most cats don't like, yet some strange cats love it over catnip or <i>Nepeta cataria</i>. Catmint has larger leaves and beautiful "blue-bonnet" type flowers, it's very "minty." Catnip has smaller leaves, and it's flowers are kind of ugly and blah-white... it has a very pungent scent that ALL cats love. it's very intoxicating to cats ... which is why i need to find some. my cats need a little "fix" at night before i want to go to bed. at first cats acts crazy after "hitting" the 'nip; but then they pass out and sleep (which is a good thing for me at night!) LOL! nope, that’s definitely not catnip.

but yes, it does look like mint. they’re in the same family actually. and there’s also catmint or Nepeta faassenii which most cats don’t like, yet some strange cats love it over catnip or Nepeta cataria.

Catmint has larger leaves and beautiful “blue-bonnet” type flowers, it’s very “minty.” Catnip has smaller leaves, and it’s flowers are kind of ugly and blah-white… it has a very pungent scent that ALL cats love. it’s very intoxicating to cats … which is why i need to find some.

my cats need a little “fix” at night before i want to go to bed. at first cats acts crazy after “hitting” the ‘nip; but then they pass out and sleep (which is a good thing for me at night!) LOL!

]]> By: beerorkid http://www.beerorkid.com/2007/08/20/catnip-anyone/#comment-15135 beerorkid Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:39:52 +0000 http://www.beerorkid.com/2007/08/20/catnip-anyone/#comment-15135 guess it was not catnip I saw out there. <a href="http://www.beerorchid.com/pix/d/379-1/IMG_0308.JPG" rel="nofollow">purple flower</a> guess it was not catnip I saw out there.
purple flower

]]> By: beerorkid http://www.beerorkid.com/2007/08/20/catnip-anyone/#comment-15133 beerorkid Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:37:11 +0000 http://www.beerorkid.com/2007/08/20/catnip-anyone/#comment-15133 hmmmmmm...... It looks so much like mint. I know I have seen it out in wilderness in the fall. Even taken pics of it in the fall or spring cuz the flowers were so purdy. I think I saw some on the NW corner of 13th and K. I was waiting to get picked up for lunch and saw it looked like mint. Rubbed the leaves and smelled. Did not smell like anything. hmmmmmm……

It looks so much like mint. I know I have seen it out in wilderness in the fall. Even taken pics of it in the fall or spring cuz the flowers were so purdy.

I think I saw some on the NW corner of 13th and K. I was waiting to get picked up for lunch and saw it looked like mint. Rubbed the leaves and smelled. Did not smell like anything.

]]> By: beerorkid http://www.beerorkid.com/2007/08/20/catnip-anyone/#comment-15129 beerorkid Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:33:03 +0000 http://www.beerorkid.com/2007/08/20/catnip-anyone/#comment-15129 my buddy is growing some hops. 3 diff varieties. just started them this year so he has none to share rhizome wise. But he will use them all for his homebrew for sure. Never seen catnip before. my buddy is growing some hops. 3 diff varieties. just started them this year so he has none to share rhizome wise. But he will use them all for his homebrew for sure.

Never seen catnip before.

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