Expectation vs. Reality, unexpected surprises and Garden-Sharing a second time. When your garden Tender unexpectedly has to move on.
Read MoreHow does garden-sharing work? Garden owners Gill and Ian talk about growing food, their ‘Ground Rules’ and garden Tender Miriam talks about how gardening and growing her own food taught her patience and kept her optimistic in 2020; thinking about the brighter happy days to come.
Read MoreWe’d usually be welcoming glad tidings at this time of the year but some of us might not be welcoming anyone at all. How can Garden-Sharing could help put an end to loneliness.
Read MorePut your best front forward! Let’s get those front yards and driveways thriving. Most of Britain’s back gardens are concealed from passers-by, be it a garden of a terraced home or maisonette; leaving the front yard (a place to put the bins) a second thought, when it’s the thing that people see first. Why should back gardens get all the attention? If you’re unable to garden-share if you’re shielding or your back garden is inaccessible, front gardens are spaces that can be shared and gardened too! We’re teaming up with National Park City to give front gardens some love.
Read MoreGreening driveways, pathways into a gardening career and how gardening helped when she was Postpartum. In our post-lockdown chat, Rajul also shared what made her own childhood garden so special and how you can help your children enjoy the garden so they too, grow up to be nature lovers.
Read Morenotahorticulturist.com is science and gardening educator, Mama and singer Jessi Wong, based in South London. Jessi talks about feeding her family, how gardening boosts our mindfulness and how growing food and foraging got her through lockdown. As well as talking about food, we talked about fertilisers and how we might get more schools into gardening.
Read MoreJoyce from Lend and Tend chats to No-Dig garden guru Charles Dowding in lockdown. Charles explains the benefits of a No-Dig vegetable garden and how Lend and Tend gardeners can start a No-Dig in their #PatchMatch and grow with fewer pests and weeds, water less and harvest faster with the No-Dig method in a shared garden.
Read MoreOpen from Wednesday 25th July, until 26th August. Bourne and Hollingsworth have become the latest public space to get involved with Garden-Sharing.
Read MoreIf you’re with me on the garden sharing mission, I’m going to need a little help from you, my friends and neighbours; so that you can get to know yours.
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