Spring is not here yet, the season that’s upon us is Imbolc. Meaning in the belly or in the womb. Whilst things are sleeping underground awaiting warmer weather to burst new life into our gardens, we at Lend and Tend are also preparing for transformation.
Read MoreAs you take time to unwind this Christmas, what will you sit back and dream about? Dream with me about your own dream garden. Dreamy castles, lawns and secret garden rooms perhaps? I also share my future dreams for Lend and Tend and garden sharing plans for next year.
Read MoreExpectation vs. Reality, unexpected surprises and Garden-Sharing a second time. When your garden Tender unexpectedly has to move on.
Read MoreWhat kind of people garden-share? Kind people share gardens! People from all over the country and all walks of life want to garden share, here are just a handful of folks who are kindly wanting to share their time or their gardens.
Read MoreBe Cool, Share Gardens. How to beat the heat and the latest hot buzzword on everyone’s lips: #RegenAg (Regenerative Agriculture). But, how can we put this into practice on a small scale in shared gardens and beat the heat and effects of climate change?
Read MoreA eulogy to my allotment.
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 MoreHi to everyone in The Highlands and to all of our new Garden-Sharing friends across the border in Perth and Kinross, Pitlochry, Aberfeldy, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Girvan, Largs, Dunfermline, Dunkeld, Dundee, Peebles and Galashiels.
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 MoreYou may have caught Poppy Okotcha on Gardener’s World sharing how she gardened on her narrow boat, but she’s now escaped the city’s waterways for a place in the country with a garden. Read Poppy’s in-depth article on how you too, can appreciate the teaching opportunities that gardening gives us; learn how to be mindful all whilst practising regenerative gardening techniques.
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 MoreHow did garden-sharing start in Britain and who in history might be responsible for our obsession with houseplants? Garden, landscape and social historian and BBC Gardeners World presenter, Advolly Richmond gives some fascinating insight and top tips to recreate elements of her favourite garden styles from the Edwardian and Renaissance eras.
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 MoreThings I'm grateful for: We’re past the peak, we're at midpoint between spring and summer, you're still signing up and with me on the Garden-Sharing mission. Thank you all so much. I hope you're gifted by Flora, the goddess of spring and flowers, with visions of nature bursting back to life, amazing weather, peace and birdsong into your windows.
Read MoreWe’re still going to be able to mutually benefit from the joys that garden-sharing can bring. However, we must all take extra precautions at the moment as the current uncertain situation unfolds.
Read MoreLooking at how people garden share across the globe, the answer to a lack of garden space could be under our nose!
Read MoreIn the spirit of Garden-Sharing, I’d like to dedicate a post to my late friend, founder of Seeds Share; Esiah Levy who gently, kindly and compassionately took a stand for what he believed in; took practical actions and helped mobilise people, not just individual growers, but whole community groups to have sustainable healthier happier lives.
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