Ideal Bite

This was a good tip. I already know how bad a chemical lawn is. After I read several years ago that children who live in homes with chemically enhanced lawns have a higher rate of cancer I have refused to put ANYTHING but water and grass clippings on our lawn. My family and my neighbors think this is very wierd. With my own three kids and three dogs plus half the neighborhood playing on it and eating it- the lawn would not be picture perfect anyway but actually it stays pretty green even with nothing on it. I certainly sleep better knowing we don't have all those chemcials- However we have a well for lawn and garden and all the cr_p the neighbors are using is ending up in MY groundwater. Thanks for a great tip. My cat loves to eat grass!

My cat pukes any time she eats kitty grass. I'm not sure if this is because it doesn't agree with her or because, if I buy one of those little pots of it, she eats the entire thing in about 30 seconds...

Mine always eat the dirt too. I don't think they get the concept of chewing the grass and so they just tear the whole blade (down to the root) out, and with it comes the dirt. Anyone have an idea on how to keep it in the dish so my cats just eat the grass? I'm thinking maybe a net of some sort when I plant it. I do like the big tray of it, thats cool. But as long as they keep eating like pigs instead of cats, its going to have to stay on the back porch.

My ex used to have cats, one of whom loved kitty grass and plants. Eat and barf, eat and barf. It improved when I gave him a brewers yeast/garlic tablet though. I'm also a beleiver in a natural lawn. I tried using a reel mower last year. Unfortunately, there is a little too much yard, and I have a neighbor who is a beeyatch about "unmaintained" yards. I'm going to try to find an electric mower this year, something rechargeable, where, hopefully, I won't cut my foot off!

I can't offer the girls kitty grass. They mow it down like they've never munched such manna, and then they yack it all up. I'd rather offer up some leafy greens when I make them fresh food, for the green component they crave. So, we stick to catnip plants which I have to hide when I go to work, lest they 'love' them to death. If they were outdoor cats I'd worry about the grass they were eating and where they were eating it. Not all my neighbors maintain non-pesticided much less 'natural' when it comes to lawn upkeep.

For a natural fertilizer try Garden's Alive WOW Plus. A littel pricey but worth it's weight in gold. I have the greenest lawn on the block with the stuff and a little elbow grease pulling weeds with my Weed Hound (Home Depot)!