Recent articles by Penny Woodward
Herb hedges you can grow yourself
Lavender can planted so that it makes a hedge that will provide a beautiful scent as well as nectar for pollinators.
Statuesque angelica
Choose your spot carefully before planting angelica as it quickly grows to a metre across and more than two metres high when in flower.
Flowers for late winter and spring colour
Alyssum is one of our favourite annual flower seeds to plant for late winter and spring colour.
Grow kiwi fruit and reap the benefits
Plant kiwi fruit vines in spring and reap the benefits for decades.
Modern heirloom tomatoes
Heirloom tomato seeds have many advantages especially as they are non-hybrid plants from which you can collect seeds and regrow plants that generally grow true to type.
Poppy planting time
Planting poppy seed takes a little care but when it blooms it's an absolute joy!
Growing in sandy soils
A few gardeners are blessed with deep, rich, textured, fertile soil. But what if you aren't? Penny Woodward has some ideas to help.
Garlic pests and diseases
Try these recipes to combat the main problems for homegrown garlic: fungal diseases rust and fusarium, and black aphid pests.