This has been an incredibly difficult year and many people have found great solace in gardening. This is certainly true for those of our members who have managed to get outdoors with their hands in the dirt at our wonderful growing space on Clapham Common. Of course, everyone’s experience is different, so we asked our…Read more …
To say this has been a difficult year would be an understatement, but despite all the challenges our garden has manged to keep ticking along. Back in March, just as we were preparing for the growing season ahead, suddenly everything came to a halt. Covid-19 lockdown kicked in! This meant cancelling all our planned events…Read more …
At the end of the summer people often remark that our garden must be heading into a quiet time – but there always seems to be plenty more to do here at Bandstand Beds. Usually because we’ve fundraised to have some work carried out in the garden in the autumn, and this year’s been no…Read more …
Just as we were about to cast off our shorts in favour of warmer autumn clothing, the summer returned for a final blaze of glory. We’ve had sun, fun and two fantastic events in our garden. At the beginning of the month, Richard Galpin from London Freedom Seed Bank ran a workshop for us in…Read more …
The summer is such a wonderful time in our garden with so much growing and going on, but before you know autumn is on the way… Looking back, though, we’ve had a fab time with our events and activities, kicking off with Common People in May which we organised for CCMAC. The sun shone, there…Read more …
The one thing you expect in spring is lots of rain to help plants with their growing spurt. With climate change, however, the weather is way less predictable, and we’ve had hardly any April showers. The upside to this is that we’ve had lots of dry days for our gardening sessions and planned events, but…Read more …
Wow, we’ve had a busy year so far, feverishly getting our garden ready for the growing season ahead – and there have been some major improvements to our community garden. From money raised through donations for our pickles and garden produce, along with £2,000 grant funding from Tesco Bags of Help, we’ve installed a new…Read more …
Our Bandstand Beds gardeners were thrilled to get tickets for a tour of Growing Underground, to witness for ourselves the amazing food production happening right beneath our feet in in a tunnel in Clapham. Visionaries Steven Dring and Richard Ballard Our adventure started with a warm welcome from Richard Ballard, the co-founder of Growing Underground.…Read more …
January’s a funny old time of year. With the festivities finally over you can begin to fall foul of the doldrums. That’s not the case for our gardeners, who are already looking forward to the next growing season. Especially when they remind themselves of the amazing time we all had at last year. And if…Read more …
Lovely lunch on 13 October, enjoying the last of the warm weather! It really was a sizzling summer and as we headed into autumn the weather remained warm and dry, right up until 22 September, the Saturday set for our harvest feast. The date coincided Car Free Day and Capital Growth’s Urban Harvest, and to…Read more …