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Penny Woodward

Penny Woodward

Recent articles by Penny Woodward

Southern Corroboree Frog
Organic homes

Frogs in your backyard

How to offer a home for a species that's under threat by building a frog pond in your backyard.

Hanging herbs on clothes horse
Your garden harvest

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.

Strawberries are high on the list of the most chemically contaminated.
What to plant

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.

Person picking fresh strawberries.
What to plant

Strawberry growing success

Discover the secret to growing full-flavoured and productive strawberries – whether in beds, baskets or pots.

Sweet cicely has a mild sugary aniseed flavour.
What to plant

Unusual herbs to grow now

Sweet cecily and summer savory are just two flavourful culinary herbs you can easily grow in your own garden.

walk on board
Soil

Wet soils

Like many gardeners, Penny Woodward's soil is rather sodden at the moment, and she's being very careful not to tread on it.

Herbs for spring
What to plant

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.

Raspberry Ripple dianthus
What to plant

Gillyflowers, pinks, picotees

These are all names for old-fashioned Dianthus species, which add a lovely splash of colour to any garden.

Tomato seedlings
What to plant

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 starting to flower
What to plant

Welsh onions

Tough, versatile and useful, with a mild sweet onion flavour. Welsh onions tick all the vegie growing boxes.

Snails begone!
What to plant

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
Build your garden

Worm farms and tumblers

Not everyone has the space in the garden for a compost heap -- that's where a worm farm comes in!

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