Catmint

Species: Catmint
Latin name: Nepeta Cataria
Other usual name: Catnip - Cataire
Variety: Catmint
Family: Lamiacées
Origin: Europe

There is a difference between catmint and the gramineous cat grass : Catmint (what we sell to you here), also called nepeta cataria is a hardy perennial which you find in a wild state in the rocky zones. Plant has gray green leaves with small white flowers releasing a mint odor. These catmint seeds are the true plant which you will sow in your garden and your cat will come to eat the leaves and rubbing on it. Do not confuse with cat grass which in general is graminaceous kind, corn or barley that you sow in a pot in the house for your cat.

Seed sowing: All the year
Collect Catmint: -
Height: The catmint reaches on average 20 with 30cm
Exposure: Sunny

Sowing instructions: Sow directly in place on a sandy soil, clear up after the first true leaves apear approximately every 20-30 cm between the seedlings, you can sow seeds in a large pot, sow denser than in soil and water regularly.

Sowing distance: 20-30 cm in all directions
Minimum seed sowing temperature: 18 °C
Seed germination: 10 days
Nutritional value: -

Net weight of seeds: 1 gr = +/- 1500 seeds

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.