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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Joyce 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.

Looking at how people garden share across the globe, the answer to a lack of garden space could be under our nose!

Helen Taylor from The South West Londoner talks to Lend and Tend founder, Joyce Veheary about how you can join the ‘Tinder’ of gardening or face long allotment waiting lists.