Oh my gourd it’s that time again… Hallo-ween! How about finding a Patch-Match and Planting Your Perfect Pumpkin Patch! Something nice for you and your neighbourhood or if you want to make it a profitable project, here’s how.

Award-winning garden designer Katherine Cox talks about her design philosophy, blending the inside out, filling gardens with colour whilst being mindful of biodiversity and sustainability.

The Incredible Edible Network have lots to get eager Lenders and Tenders into growing and getting your hands on local produce nationwide. This week we're spotlighting our friends at Incredible Edible Lambeth.

Should people give their allotments up when faced with a consuming life event, like when elder care becomes a priority or when welcoming a new baby into the family? In a Facebook post, the mass consensus is: ‘Don’t give up your allotment!’ So how does the alternative of garden-sharing weigh up for those on the waiting lists?

Forget-Me-Nots for Dementia Awareness and how you can safely and happily share a garden considering dementia friendly garden ideas.

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.

As 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.

Expectation vs. Reality, unexpected surprises and Garden-Sharing a second time. When your garden Tender unexpectedly has to move on.

What 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.

Be 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?

A eulogy to my allotment.

How 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.

Hi 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.

We’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.

You 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.

Put 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.

Greening 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.

notahorticulturist.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.

How 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.