Toni Kenyon
How to feed your herbs in pots
Keeping anything alive in a pot has its issues. Fortunately, herbs are a hardy bunch and usually thrive in a pot. They're often described...
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Toni Kenyon
- May 7, 2022
- 3 min
How to prune & harvest your herbs
Today we're looking at the best ways to prune and harvest your herbs to keep them in tip-top-shape and keep them producing. We'll also...
Toni Kenyon
- Apr 25, 2022
- 2 min
What's the difference between an Annual, Biennial or Perennial herb?
It's my belief that a lot of people think that they're killing their herbs when, in actual fact, they don't understand the life cycle of...
Toni Kenyon
- Apr 11, 2022
- 3 min
Best tips for watering your herb planter
How much water do my herbs need? It's a question that I get asked and one that can be answered in so many ways. Oftentimes we don't talk...
Toni Kenyon
- Mar 26, 2022
- 1 min
6 Week Weed Wisdom Challenge
Have you joined our 6 week challenge yet? Herbs have been referred to as 'weeds' from the dawn of time. Why weeds? Well, because weeds...
Toni Kenyon
- Mar 6, 2022
- 3 min
Plant your own Mini-Herb Garden
There's nothing like having an abundance of fresh herbs that you've grown yourself to add to your cooking. Unfortunately, many people...
Toni Kenyon
- Nov 27, 2021
- 3 min
How to make Lemon Balm Syrup
Join me as I wander the garden admiring its spring growth. We'll check in on the bees and the ever-present chickens always make...
Toni Kenyon
- Oct 10, 2021
- 2 min
Basil - Medicinal Uses
Most people know Basil for its culinary uses, or at most for putting pots of Basil on the kitchen window sill to repel flies. Where is...
Toni Kenyon
- Sep 26, 2021
- 1 min
Growing, Drying & Processing Nasturtium from my Home Herb Garden
Welcome to my 518 sqm urban garden! I grow herbs, fruit and vegetables in a suburban backyard in New Zealand. The chickens and the bees...
Toni Kenyon
- Aug 15, 2021
- 3 min
Garden Herbs for Health: Rosemary
While most people associate Rosemary with a good Sunday night roast dinner, I like to think about how this aromatic plant to help me with...
Toni Kenyon
- Aug 1, 2021
- 5 min
Making Your Own Seasoning Combinations from Herbs
There's nothing I love more than throwing a handful of fresh herbs into my cooking. It's almost an evening meditation for me, pottering...
Toni Kenyon
- Jul 18, 2021
- 3 min
Herbal Tea - My Midday Meditation
Someone asked me recently what I put in my herbal tea and I thought it was an interesting question, because I don't really think about...
Toni Kenyon
- May 18, 2021
- 3 min
Herbs for Winter Wellness
It's the time of the year when I turn my mind to what I need to be 'brewing' to keep me well over the coming cooler months. There are so...
Toni Kenyon
- May 3, 2021
- 2 min
Herb Garden Maintenance for Autumn
There's no doubt that an affordable, easy and great way to enhance the flavour of your foods is to have your own herb garden at your...
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
- Apr 20, 2021
- 3 min
5 Mistakes Beginners make when Growing Herbs
Growing from seed As much as I love growing herbs from seed, sometimes they don't love me. Starting any kind of plant in the garden from...
Toni Kenyon
- Apr 7, 2021
- 4 min
8 Herbs to Grow in your Kitchen*
You all know that I believe the best place to grow herbs is out in the garden but if that's not an option for you, we've also covered off...
Toni Kenyon
- Apr 2, 2021
- 4 min
8 Tips for Growing Herbs Indoors
You all know that my preference for growing herbs is outside in my kitchen garden. But if you haven't got the space, or the climate is...
Toni Kenyon
- Mar 27, 2021
- 6 min
How to start a Kitchen Herb Garden
One of the things I was determined I was going to have when we built our new home (nearly 7 years ago now) was a kitchen herb garden....
Toni Kenyon
- Mar 21, 2021
- 4 min
Herb Garden Care & Maintenance
I've banged on a length about how easy herbs are to grow and how forgiving they are, but they still need a few vital things to keep them...
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