Recent articles by Penny Woodward
How to dry herbs
Summer's a great time to dry herbs. It's also the time when most of them should be harvested. Here's how to do it.
How to grow chemical-free strawberries
Strawberries are high on the list of chemically contaminated foods that we buy at a supermarket, so here's a refresher on how to grow your own strawberries organically.
Strawberry growing success
Discover the secret to growing full-flavoured and productive strawberries – whether in beds, baskets or pots.
Unusual herbs to grow now
Sweet cecily and summer savory are just two flavourful culinary herbs you can easily grow in your own garden.
Herbs for spring
Spring is a great time to plant most herbs, put them in a sunny position and well-drained soil so that when the soil warms up they'll surge ahead.
Gillyflowers, pinks, picotees
These are all names for old-fashioned Dianthus species, which add a lovely splash of colour to any garden.
Growing tomatoes from seed
There are many ways of growing tomatoes from seed, but here is one of the simplest and most common, using punnets or seedling trays.
Welsh onions
Tough, versatile and useful, with a mild sweet onion flavour. Welsh onions tick all the vegie growing boxes.
Snails begone!
Peas appear to be a favourite of snails and slugs in vegie patches, here's a simple solution that you can make yourself to keep them away.
Worm farms and tumblers
Not everyone has the space in the garden for a compost heap -- that's where a worm farm comes in!
Bare-rooted trees and shrubs
If you are looking at buying a bare rooted tree or shrub, read about the best way to prepare the soil and then plant them.