Toni Kenyon
My Bucket Compost Method
I've written before about composting in small spaces, but my bucket compost method is one that I come back to often. I love it because...
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Toni Kenyon
- May 31, 2022
- 1 min
Worm Tea for your Herbs & Garden
Is it worm tea or leachate? Frankly, I don't care and the debate can rage around me. I've been putting the liquid that comes out of my...
Toni Kenyon
- Dec 27, 2021
- 1 min
The Urban Forest Garden - November 2021
This video was filmed in November in my 518 sqm suburban forest garden! The herbs were sprouting again from their winter sleep and...
Toni Kenyon
- Jul 25, 2021
- 4 min
Garden Seed Storage Solutions
A glossy, colourful seed catalogue found its way to my mail box the other day. This is a dangerous time of the year for me. Soon my inbox...
Toni Kenyon
- Jul 11, 2021
- 7 min
Why you should have backyard chickens
What comes first, the chicken or the egg? In my situation, it was definitely the chicken. On the anniversary of ‘the gals’ (as they have...
Toni Kenyon
- Jun 13, 2021
- 7 min
Why We Chose Our Hoop House
Glass House vs Hoop House We deliberated for such a long time, but in the end we decided to go with a Hoop House for our Auckland urban...
Toni Kenyon
- May 29, 2021
- 3 min
Composting Solutions for Small Gardens
How can I compost in a small garden? Contrary to what a lot of you may believe from looking at the photographs of my garden, I don't...
Toni Kenyon
- Apr 27, 2021
- 4 min
Herbs You Can Happily Plant Together
Like most of us, Herbs like to hang out in groups. You'll have better results in your Herb garden if you group your herb plants based on...
Toni Kenyon
- Feb 22, 2021
- 4 min
9 Best Tips for Easy Compost
Compost is the main-stay of the no-dig garden. I could have headlined this post "All the dirt on the dirt!" Without a good layer of...
Toni Kenyon
- Feb 19, 2021
- 4 min
The beginners guide to no-dig vegetable gardening
Why did I choose no-dig gardening for my small urban plot? Mainly because we had no top soil and a scraped bare patch of land to begin...
Toni Kenyon
- Feb 16, 2021
- 5 min
My Top 5 no-dig garden mentors
How many of these amazing people do you know? These are the people who have influenced the way that I garden, they have changed my life...
Toni Kenyon
- Feb 11, 2021
- 4 min
Who LifeLoveandLettuce.com is for
Do you want to eat healthy, home grown food, but you just don't think it's as easy as everyone says it is? I got tired of looking around...
Toni Kenyon
- Feb 9, 2021
- 3 min
5 Things I Want To Help You With
My blog exists to help people who live on a small piece of land grow plenty of healthy food right in their own back yard. 1. Empower you...
Toni Kenyon
- Feb 8, 2021
- 2 min
February in a backyard food forest
We've been harvesting peaches like mad people over the last week. Over 12 kg stewed and now in the freezer! We stewed 4kgs of plums as...
Toni Kenyon
- Jan 19, 2021
- 3 min
How do I turn my lawn into garden?
I’m a great believer in growing food, not lawns. It’s incredible the amount of resources that go into keeping a blanket of green growing...
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