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Penny Woodward

Penny Woodward

Recent articles by Penny Woodward

Creole garlic
Your garden harvest

Tips for preserving garlic

the following tips are ways to preserve garlic for longer storage and later use, but also some alternative ways to use garlic once it sprouts.

Lavandula stoechas
What to plant

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.

Angelica
What to plant

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.

Alyssum
What to plant

Flowers for late winter and spring colour

Alyssum is one of our favourite annual flower seeds to plant for late winter and spring colour.

Frost protection
What to plant

Frost, good or bad?

Frosts are part of many gardeners lives but are they good or bad?

Kiwi fruit on vine
What to plant

Grow kiwi fruit and reap the benefits

Plant kiwi fruit vines in spring and reap the benefits for decades.

Heirloom tomatoes
What to plant

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.

Red poppy
Flowers, shrubs & trees

Poppy planting time

Planting poppy seed takes a little care but when it blooms it's an absolute joy!

Dianthus and sage.
Soil

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.

Leeks in the ground
Vegetables

Lovely leeks

Leeks are best planted in autumn and winter says Penny Woodward

Testing pH
Basics

Testing soil pH

What is pH and how can you change it? Discover the answers to these questions here.

Tahitian lime
Fruit & nuts

Limes

Limes have it all: fragrant flowers, glossy leaves, delicious fruit.

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