Fed up of waiting around for an allotment? No garden of your own? Don’t panic – here’s a list of gardens and organisations just waiting for your green fingers.
Landshare is the UK’s enormous database of spare gardens, plots and fields waiting to be cultivated. You’ll find all sorts of generous types looking for people to use their land in return for a few fresh veg.
The National Trust are often looking for volunteers to help tend some of their stunning gardens. Plus you’ll learn quite a bit along the way.
If you’re a little bit subversive and hate seeing miserable public spaces, Guerilla Gardening is a movement which plants sunflowers in forgotten council planters and revitalises roundabouts with donated plants.
Join a community garden. This is a great way of getting experience of gardening, as well as meeting some fascinating gardeners at the same time.
Join a Transition Town network or Local Food project: they will have plenty of ideas about local, sustainable growing projects that you can get involved in.
Volunteer to do an elderly person’s gardening. Age UK are always looking for volunteers who can look after the plots of those physically unable to garden themselves.
What about you? What ways have you got around having no plot of your own?
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