The species-appropriate care of cat grass includes regular pruning. You may be reluctant to trim the grass yourself if you want your pet to use it as a dietary supplement. However, you can be sure that with a pruning you will encourage new sprouting and can hardly do anything wrong - especially not if you heed the following tips.
A pruning prevents the grass from becoming woody
Why does cat grass need to be cut?
- You can no longer feed flowering cat grass to your cat.
- In the course of flowering, the stalks become lignified and sharp-edged. Your cat could then injure itself.
- If the culms become too long, the tips of the shoots turn an unsightly brown.
- A pruning promotes new growth.
cutting cat grass
The style is crucial
How much and how often you cut your cat grass depends largely on the type of grass. Cat grass comes in two different varieties:
- as sweet grass (barley, oats, bamboo and wheat)
- as sour grass (cyprus grass)
The native cereal varieties grow quickly and therefore have to be cut quite often. However, indoor bamboo grows more slowly. He usually does not recover very well from a hard pruning. You have to be patient for a long time until the stalks have reached their old length. In addition, it loses its beautiful growth habit by pruning.
time
Cat grass is cut regardless of the season. It is crucial that you shorten it before flowering. In addition, a pruning should always take place when the stalks become too long and hang limp.
Cut back how much?
With the exception of the room bamboo, you are welcome to shorten the cat grass to a few centimeters above the floor. New shoots will soon form. In most cases, the radical pruning leads to even stronger culms.