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Maybe my brain is soggy from the weather, or perhaps I got a touch of heat sickness last week in a steamy wave. Whatever the cause, I finally gave in: I let Jack the Demon Cat write his first story ever.
stop catnip from self-sowing around: jack's pro tips
By Jack
My Mother keeps spouting some crap about how my catnip is really called Nepeta cataria. See the words "pet" and "cat" in there? -- I'm telling you, she talks in word puzzles, though she's no Will Shortz. She blathers on that it's "a perennial that self-sows" (what?). She says you can "start it from seed yourself pretty easily indoors." Nonsense! Catnip is best grown this way:
Make like a chicken, and sit on it. Catnip requires daily periods of incubation, as I'm demonstrating above, and when treated this way will not require any other pinching, and will not spread around. I am a cat, so I should know. My other Master Catnip Gardener tips.
fledging, when young birds dare to leave the nest
Are you ready to fly? That's the biggest question in early summer, when many young birds (including the barn owls, above) are leaving the nest. But how do they know when to make the leap? Ellen Blackstone of the popular BirdNote public-radio show is our guide again as we look skyward in this latest installment in our collaborative series.
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