Small but mighty, Rajul Shah shares how gardening builds resilience and how she became The Small Gardener.
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 to create an *Entirely Edible Garden, even if you’re #NotaHorticulturist
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.
A potted history of the Garden Room, Garden-Sharing in Britain and why we love house plants with Advolly Richmond.
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.
There's no better time to try a No-Dig vegetable patch.
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.
A shower of gratitude from me to you.
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.
Keep Calm and Garden-Share, albeit from a safe social-distance
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.
Travelling with Lend and Tend: How do people share gardens globally?
Looking at how people garden share across the globe, the answer to a lack of garden space could be under our nose!
Remembering Esiah Levy.
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.
Garden-Share at Summer Pop-Up: The Beautiful Allotment
Open from Wednesday 25th July, until 26th August. Bourne and Hollingsworth have become the latest public space to get involved with Garden-Sharing.
OUR FRIENDS BLOGS: Join the ‘Tinder’ of gardening vs allotment waiting lists
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.
👻 Garden Sharing doesn't have to be scary 👻
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.
OUR FRIENDS BLOGS: Croydon's Green-Fingered Match Maker
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.
How Neighbours got to know each other with Lend and Tend.
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.
A Lend and Tend Valentine’s message because we love gardens and sharing gardens.
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.
OUR FRIENDS BLOGS: Mouthy Money - Thought of sharing your garden? How renters can reap the benefits
When life’s filled with unpredictable financial instability, being as self-sufficient as possible can help.
Shaking up the Apple Cart, My Simone Bile’s Strawberries and Bringing the Beach back to SW3
Sun, sea, sand, sharing gardens and shaking up the apple cart. What a surprising summer 2016 was.
Even socialising spaces can share gardens too!
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 Gardening affects how we behave and Gardening on The Stage!
How living without a garden can affect our mental health. Writer Lucy Grace made it the subject of her new play 'Garden'.
Hello! Welcome to the newest garden sharing website, Lend and Tend
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.