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August and September events
Please join the Bandstand Beds team – we warmly invite you to take part Thursday 15th August 7.30AM (note the time) pumpkin sexing and seed saving workshop – at the Pumpkin Patch Can you identify a male and a female flower? Why is it easy to save bean seed but pumpkins are so tricky? Learn…
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Feasting! Kitchens needed
We’re getting ready to cook. Kitchens needed in October. Please contact us if you can help ccbandstandbeds@gmail.com Clapham Common Bandstand Beds – communal feasting! At the growing project on Clapham Common we spent April and May swapping pumpkin and French bean seedlings as part of our Squash and Bean swap project to link up growers…
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What’s happening?
Hello Swappers and other growing folk of Clapham and beyond! It’s the Clapham Common Fete! All welcome this Sunday from 12 at the Bandstand Beds. You can have broad bean falafel for tasting swap tips on growing your beans and pumpkins; comfrey tea for sampling 🙂 inspect the growth pledge a recipe for our cookbook find…
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Broad Beans – come and harvest
We planted the seeds last November and now we have some juicy pods of our own. Join us to share the harvesting, and to have a chance to get involved with the Feasting element of the Squash and Bean Swap. Join us on Thursday 27th June for an evening session harvesting, tidying and planning. We’ll…
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feeding and watering
We’ve swapped and planted and now it’s a summer long of watering and feeding. You’re invited to take part. Scroll down to the bottom… Comfrey – smelly but the plants love it. This morning I’ve given the broad beans a foliar feed of diluted comfrey tea. Plants can get a quick fix by taking in…
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pumpkin picnic
We had a lovely busy day of chat, planting, tending and eating. A row of sunflowers to back our dwarf (60cm) black-eyed beans plants – lots of lovely sticks. Baby broad beans popped liked sweeties. Info on natural fertiliser, comfrey tea (sorry I made you smell it, Emma), and plant tonic, the seaweed extract. Join…
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It’s the Big Lunch/Chelsea Fringe Picnic at Bandstand Beds – June 2nd
Join us for food and chat 11 – 2. Bring a picnic, a rug or bring over your food from La Baita and join us. We may even have some succulent baby broad beans to share from our plants growing there. Meet the team behind the Bandstand Beds, and maybe become a member and take…
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Pumpkin hugel
Our second site was weeded and topped up with fresh soil and manure on Friday. Thanks to Victor, Parks Manager, and corporate volunteers from Arquiva – very nice chaps and chappesses on an away day from the computer. What’s more, they built a hugel – old wood and wood chips topped off with green waste…
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Swapping and planting at Bandstand Beds
We had lots of visitors today, some bringing seedlings, some taking them away and some bringing and taking! We planted up the bandstand beds and made it over to the newly constructed hugel at our second site on the Common. Join us on June 2nd for the Big Picnic Lunch and two mini-workshops on what…
