Take care of yard after middle of fence gets bent (8)
I believe the answer is:
tendency
'bent' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'take care of yard after middle of fence' is the wordplay.
'take care of' becomes 'tend' (tending is a kind of taking care of).
'yard' becomes 'y'.
'after' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'middle of' says to take the centre.
The middle letters of 'fence' are 'enc'.
'y' after 'enc' is 'ency'.
'tend'+'ency'='TENDENCY'
'gets' is the link.
(Other definitions for tendency that I've seen before include "Proclivity" , "Likelihood - inclination" , "Inclination towards a particular behaviour" , "Predisposition" , "'Inclination, propensity (8)'" .)