Recent articles by Penny Woodward
Ten tips for a healthy garden
These tips will help you create a thriving organic garden – one that will provide veg and fruit, and help the planet.
How to grow sprouts
All you need is a bench or windowsill and some easy-to-find equipment to grow sprouts.
Frogs in your backyard
How to offer a home for a species that's under threat by building a frog pond in your backyard.
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.