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.

Things 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.

We’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.

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

In 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. 

Open from Wednesday 25th July, until 26th August. Bourne and Hollingsworth have become the latest public space to get involved with Garden-Sharing.

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.

For Garden Owners who think gardening is a frightful task, take the hell out of horticulture by finding a helper. If you're in a garden-less hell-hole, sign up and share a garden on our site. 

Julia from The Croydonist is definitely a prime candidate for some gardening advice. Hence, got chatting to Joyce Veheary, the lady behind Lend and Tend programme, which matches gardeners to gardens.

If 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.

If you'd love to garden, or if you don't love your garden as much as you could. Let someone else love it instead. 

When life’s filled with unpredictable financial instability, being as self-sufficient as possible can help.

Sun, sea, sand, sharing gardens and shaking up the apple cart. What a surprising summer 2016 was.

It's not just suburban gardens and small city spaces that can share gardens. Hello there from the 10th floor of an NCP carpark!  

How living without a garden can affect our mental health. Writer Lucy Grace made it the subject of her new play 'Garden'. 

Welcome to garden sharing website, Lend and Tend; for people who have a garden and wished they didn't have to and people who wished they had a garden and don't.