9/8/24u – Late Summer and the bees keep coming – turning catnip flower buds into flavorful seed buds8/25/24u – Catnip flower buds – with honeybees – turning into big catnip seed buds8/10/24s – Tall catnip flower bud clusters transitioning into thick seed bud with monster sunflowers7/3/24f – These new, tiny, 3mm flowers are on the tip of some 5 foot tall kitty catnip plants6/12/24w – The same 2 year catnip bolting taller everyday – with flower buds only weeks away5/15/24w – 2 year catnip just about ready to bolt with tall flower buds soon – before summer3/31/24u – 2 year plant in our garden 3 enjoying and growing in some bright, spring, sunshine3/18/24m – 3 year old catnip plants popping through the leaf litter on a warm almost spring day3/18/24m – A closer look at 3 year old catnip plants protected from weeds by the leaf litter3/18/24m – 2 year plants are transplants where soil water evaporation is checked by the leaves12/18/23m – Typical second year Kitty Catnip plant being winterized with fresh leaf litter mulch11/26/23u – Sunrise over the Saddle Mountains on a Frosty Morn – 3 weeks to the Winter Solstice10/7/23 – Late season catnip flower and seed buds – in a light purple color9/5/23t – PROGRESS – From harvest to our 2 ounce package of vacuum sealed catnip seed buds8/14/23m – Kittycatnip seed bud clusters. These are ready for our dark room solar dryer7/18/23t – Transition into heavy and flavorful catnip seed buds7/18/23t – Big thick catnip flower buds…6/26/23m – Just out, new kittycatnip flower buds on 4 foot plus tall catnip plants.6/26/23m – Just out, new kittycatnip flower buds on 4 foot plus tall catnip plants.6/26/23m – Just out, new kittycatnip flower buds on 4 foot plus tall catnip plants.6/14/23t – A beautiful example of some tiny but typical catnip flower buds.6/11/23u – almost 3 feet tall – in full local noon light – compare this growth to the 2 previous posts6/11/23u – The first emergent buds of the season! About 2 weeks before the first catnip flowers!5/29/23u – 24 inches tall now and dominating this space in our mixed garden 35/9/23t – Getting taller and wider – these semi-wild plants will be 2 to 3 feet tall in about 4 weeks4/15/23s – Vibrant & Green – a new growing season starts with some 2nd year kitty catnip plants1/1/23u – Happy New Year from our catnip gardens 2 and 3 – with hoar frost and cold temps12/22/22 – Minus 20 Degrees Impacted much of the Yard, but Not our Catnip!9/5/22m – More honeybees on some thick, flavorful and mature catnip flower and seed buds9/5/22m – More honeybees on some thick, flavorful and mature catnip flower and seed buds9/5/22m – More honeybees on some thick, flavorful and mature catnip flower and seed buds8/28/22u – Flies, Bees and Butterflies on some thick, flavorful and mature catnip seed buds7/28/22r – 5 and 6 foot tall catnip plants just loaded with buzzing pollinators like this honeybee7/28/22r – 5 and 6 foot tall catnip plants just loaded with buzzing pollinators like this honeybee7/28/22r – 5 and 6 foot tall catnip plants just loaded with buzzing pollinators like this honeybee7/7/22r – First catnip flowers of the season, about a week later because of our cool weather6/29/22w – 3 weeks later and 3 feet tall with a flower bud about ready to pop6/29/22w – 3 feet tall now with a close up of a flower bud ready to pop bloom6/8/22w – Just about 2 feet tall already this Kittycatnip plant has about a dozen seed stalks forming5/15/22u – Our sample catnip plant in garden 3 is now developing it’s seasonal flower stalks4/24/22u – Almost 70 out – compare catnip to 2 weeks ago – almost twice as big4/5/22t – Kittycatnip growth from our 3 year old plants in garden 33/5/22u – Winter snow has finally retreated in garden 3 exposing new growth4/5/22t – Kittycatnip growth from our 3 year old plants in garden 312/26/21 – 3rd year plants along with a new scattering of a few thousand catnip seeds12/27/21 – 3rd year plants along with a new scattering of a few thousand catnip seeds10/17/21 – Some late season wild catnip seed buds… and a cool autumn sunrise9/18/21 – Big thick late season wild kittycatnip seed buds9/3/21 – Early morning wild catnip loaded with more mature seed buds than anything else8/22/21 – An orange belted bumblebee graces some large wild catnip seed bud clusters8/22/21 – A grasshopper graces some large wild catnip seed bud clusters7/31/21 – A loaded catnip flower cluster with a honeybee pollinating and lapping up nectar7/18/21 – Huge mature catnip plant with heavy seed buds… almost ready to harvest!7/18/21 – Peak summer catnip flowers and bees in our garden 27/5/21 – Near the peak of summer, there are more and more Kitty Catnip flowers every day6/23/21 – First catnip flowers of the season, about 10 days early6/23/21 – First catnip flowers of the season, about 10 days early6/12/21 – End of a stem that will begin to pop a cluster of catnip flowers in about 2 weeks6/12/21 – Garden 2 – about 28 inches tall – getting irrigated with Cascade Mountain water6/13/21 – Powdered Kitty Catnip5/23/21 – 5 year wild kittycatnip plants are now 26 inches tall5/23/21 – Second year catnip growing in our garden 25/2/21 – Starting to grow up! Flowers by the 4th of July4/15/21 – This catnip garden patch is about three times bigger than last month – growing fast3/14/21 – New catnip growth on these 5 year old plants – just in time for spring2/23/21 – Gret Flippy Chewy Time for Cats1/7/21 – My Girl Loves It1/10/21 – Catnip plants are halfway between last season’s frost bitten leaves and new growth12/22/20 – Solstice sunrise on top of Saddle Mountain here at Nip Henge12/09/20 – New Nip Sticks with Bands – Longer, fatter and stuffed with more than 2 ounces of catnip11/29/20 – New Nip Sticks – Longer, fatter and stuffed with more than 2 ounces of catnip10/25/20 – Catnip seed buds just harvested – last of the season – on to the dryer9/20/20 – Comparing catnip flower buds with seed buds9/20/20 – Comparing catnip flower buds with seed buds9/4/20 – A honeybee pollinating a flower on a thick cluster of wild catnip flower buds8/8/20 – Wild catnip from one huge second year plant containing thousands of flower buds8/1/20 – Wild catnip bursting with flower buds and buzzing with all sorts of bees7/20/20 – Catnip Flower buds are buzzing with bees and almost ready for harvest7/12/20 – Catnip Flower buds soon to be transitioning into seed buds – then harvest time6/27/20 – The first catnip flowers of the season in our garden 4!6/14/20 – Garden 4 – foot tall Kitty Catnip plants growing up fast in garden 46/14/20 – Garden 4 – 3 foot tall Kitty Catnip plants – getting more sun – growing up fast in garden 45/25/20 – Garden 4 – Chunks of 40 yr old Mt Saint Helens Ash – Deposited in 1980 & Undisturbed4/27/20 – Garden 2 – Little nippers growing from seeds planted in December – 3 feet this summer4/12/20 – Garden 4 – These second year Kitty Catnip plants are popping through the leaf litter3/01/20 – Garden 4 – Cool spring day with some Kitty Catnip plants poking through some leaf litter2/10/20 – Garden 4 – Snow’s retreated for now, showing some fresh spring like growth this afternoon5/10/20 – Garden 4 – More growth – compare this to the same place last month12/18/19 – Garden 3 covered in new snow – the catnip seeds will be getting a fresh start next spring 12/18/19 – Garden 3 was recently exposed and plowed before freezing temperatures & snow11/26/19 – Among all of the frost lately this late blooming catnip plant decided sprout flowers.10/20/19 – Sunrise – across our neighbor’s farm with new fallen snow on the Umtanum ridge10/4/19 – A resident house finch is enjoying summer’s last green catnip seed buds9/16/19 – Flower bud clusters transitioned into flavorful catnip seed bud clusters9/7/19 – Brand new spider web and a healthy spider on some wild catnip8/29/19 – Momma Kitty playing with her Kitty Catnip Nip Stick8/19/19 – Buds from the left: just harvested – dried – sifted and sorted ready for packaging8/11/19 – A bumblebee ?visiting some of our Kitty Catnip in our garden 5 this morning8/11/19 – A bumblebee ? visiting some wild catnip plants8/4/19 – A bumblebee posing on some wild catnip flower buds this afternoon7/28/19 – Our favorite wild catnip patch – getting some early morning rays7/28/19 – Thick wild catnip seed buds – full of flavor!7/21/19 – Wild catnip flowers greeting the early morning sun7/21/19 – A close up of some catnip flower buds transitioning into seed buds7/14/19 – Huge patch of wild catnip this morning hiding in a small clearing of brush willows7/13/19 – One of 4 species of bumblebees that pollinate this wild catnip7/13/19 – A honeybee just getting started on these wild catnip flowers7/7/19 – Flowers in our garden 2 with catnip flowers and pollinated seed buds7/6/19 – Flower Power! Just picked and ready to dry6/30/19 – First of the season catnip flower buds in garden 2 – soon to be Kitty Catnip seed buds6/30/19 – Some wild catnip flower buds just blooming in the morning sunlight6/30/19 – 15 week old Kitty Catnip plants in our garden 5 measuring over 2 feet tall6/23/19 – 14 week old catnip and our stray poppy – providing a colorful contrast to our green catnip6/23/19 – These 3 foot tall plants in our garden 2 should be sprouting flowers around next weekend 6/16/19 – Flower bud time! Garden 2 with 2 year old Kitty Catnip plants with emerging flower buds6/16/19 – 13 week old Kitty Catnip in garden 5 and reaching for the sky- almost a foot tall 6/09/19 – 3 year old Kitty Catnip plants measuring over 4 feet tall – monster flowers in a month6/09/19 – 12 week old Kitty Catnip in garden 5 measuring around 8 inches and growing tall – fast6/02/19 – Garden 5 late in the afternoon – with our 11 week old nippers up to 5 inches so far6/02/19 – Hot and intense sun on our 3 year old catnip – growing about an inch every other day5/26/19 – Wild catnip – a member of the mint family has 3 to 4 inch leaves about an inch wide. 5/26/19 – Our 10 week old catnip is covering most of the ground. Compare with previous images.5/19/19 – Most of the ground is covered by our 9 week old catnip plants in garden 5.5/19/19 – Third year plants are more than 28 inches (70 cm) tall – 8 inches taller in just two weeks.5/12/19 – Week 8 and our little nippers are growing out quickly covering most of the ground5/12/19 – The results of the warm hot days recently and recent irrigation – compare to other weeks5/5/19 – Week 7 and our little 5th graders are growing fast with more than half the ground covered5/5/19 – BRAND NEW! The Kitty Catnip Nip Stick available at Amazon5/5/19 – Even in partial shade our third year Kitty Catnip plants are almost 20 inches tall5/5/19 – Using this rock for comparison you can follow the growth progress of our Kitty Catnip4/28/19 – Our 4th graders are in their 6th week in garden 5 waiting for our first irrigation tomorrow4/28/19 – Our 3rd year catnip plants now measure about 15 inches tall4/21/19 – Week 4 with shows our second graders – the leaves are just emerging from the cotyledons4/21/19 – Our 3 year plants are over a foot tall already – Compare this to 2 weeks ago.4/14/19 – Healthy and robust 2nd year catnip plants growing fast – aided by rich garden compost4/14/19 – Week 4 with shows our second graders – the leaves are just emerging from the cotyledons4/7/19 – Kitty catnip first graders are 3 weeks old in garden 53/31/19 – Little Nippers Kindergarten. 2 week old kittycatnip- enjoying the warm sunny weather.3/17/19 –Snow is melting fast over kittycatnip gardens 2 and 5 – with temps in the 50s.3/17/19 – This little green on St Patty’s day are the season’s first nipper – ready to resume growth.3/10/19 – Our gardens are enveloped in hoarfrost and frigid temps. Spring is coming though!3/1/19 – Cold and grey with snow measuring over a foot in our catnip gardens. No nippers yet.2/18/19 – A late winter afternoon showing last year’s growth in garden 3 surrounded by snow.2/6/19 – 6 more inches of snow and polar vortex temperatures against a mid-winter setting sun.1/20/19 – 30 days from the solstice and we have gained an hour of sunlight – spring is coming12/31/18 – Last day of the year and the sun is rising behind Saddle Mountain12/10/18 – The start of a long winter’s nap here in garden 5 with gardens 6 and 7 in the background 11/24/18 – These little nippers in garden 5 are getting a head start on the 2019 growing season11/4/18 – Sunday morning with ground fog and low sun shining on last summer’s golden, wild, catnip 10/30/18 – Organic grass and weed killer – the new garden 5 has had a mulch cover since mid-August10/30/18 – Now exposed and planted the new catnip seeds will be first out of the gate next spring10/21/18 – Sunrise along a fence line and some wild catnip10/21/18 – Some frosty – late season – wild catnip buds and flowers10/14/18 – And with no hard frost on the horizon – the honeybees are still making visits10/14/18 – Late season and flavorful kittycatnip buds and flowers10/07/18 – Big – Fat – Autumn – Wild – Catnip – Buds are the largest and most flavorful of the season9/30/18 – Ms. Honeybee spent the night camping on these wild Kitty Catnip flowers 9/23/18 – Sunrise, Cows, Barn and Wild Catnip.9/15/18 – Purple late season wild catnip flowers growing amongst reeds and cattails.9/12/18 – A late summer honey bee visiting some Kitty Catnip flowers and buds 8/31/18 – Fall purple catnip flowers means purple buds rich in flavor 8/31/18 – Kitty Catnip garden 3 “The Moths and the Bees”8/31/18 – A newly transformed moth sunning herself in the morning sun8/7/18 – Little nippers getting started for the 2020 harvest8/5/18 – Fresh cut Kitty Catnip buds ready for the drier7/22/18 – Sunrise on Sunday morning with some wild fence line catnip 7/17/18 – Even the bees find this giant 7/17/18 – Monster wild Kitty Catnip at almost 8 feet tall 7/5/18 – A heathy stalk of rich Kitty Catnip flowers and soon to be buds7/5/18 – Almost all have sprouted some Kitty Catnip flowers 7/4/18 – Catnip amongst a patch of Feverfew daisies 7/3/18 – A few more days yet and the flowers are near maximum6/28/18 – A few more days and even more flowers6/25/18 – 2 days later and more flowers6/23/18 – The first catnip flowers on some wild catnip6/20/18 – Just about ready for flowers 6/8/18 – With a little bit of weeding catnip dominates 6/8/18 – More than 2 foot tall6/8/18 – Even taller over there6/3/18 – Healthy green and full5/28/18 – Full sun and lots of green5/6/18 – Almost covers the ground 5/6/18 – Even bigger3/24/18 – A week later and twice as big3/15/18 – Just Getting Started11/14/17 – One last flower cluster of the season before the hard frost tomorrow11/6/17 – First snowfall and the end of the season – time for packaging!10/26/17 – Frosty sunrise and Mount Rainer – Hard frost coming!10/25/17 – A half pound pile of Kitty Catnip Buds10/8/17 – Product tester “Brown Cat” snoozing after imbibing on some wild catnip10/1/17 – Wild catnip along a rustic fence line – with lots of buds9/11/17 – Last of the summer buds and bees!9/11/17 – Late season buds – the tastiest!9/11/17 – Last of the summer buds and bees!9/11/17 – Last of the summer buds and bees!9/11/17 – Late season buds – the tastiest!9/11/17 – Last of the summer buds and bees!8/5/17 – Sorted stems, leaves and seeds – most products chop this into their catnip7/30/17 – Dried flower buds ready for the sorting machines7/23/17 – Fresh cut flower buds on the stems – ready for the drier7/16/17 – Large bud clusters – best of the season7/16/17 – Garden 3 and 5 filling up with flowers and bees7/9/17 – Garden 3 and 5 – bloom time7/1/17 – They are all ready to bloom6/23/17 – First Kitty Catnip flowers of the season!6/18/17 – Almost 4 feet and about ready to flower6/18/17 – Almost 4 feet and about ready to flower6/8/17 – 3 more weeks and twice as big6/8/17 – And ready to bloom5/21/17 – More Kitty Catnip growing like a weed5/14/17 – Growing like a monster – 2 feet tall5/4/17 – 2 more weeks and bigger yet and with little nippers nearby4/14/17 – Twelve days later and twice as big4/2/17 – More sun then more green kitty catnip3/23/17 – Grow baby grow3/13/17 – Last of the snow – let the growing begin3/8/17 – Longer days and more thawing and more growth3/8/17 – Longer days and more thawing and more growth3/1/17 – Some green that survived the winter, almost 100 days 3/1/17 – March first and a real thaw is underway2/15/17 – Alas, more snow instead1/29/17 – A little thaw in hopes of an early spring1/9/17 – Happy New Year and more snow
