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 …
To say it’s been a sizzling summer is something of an understatement. It has been soooo hot! But we’re not complaining. Thanks to the weather and our diligent team of waterers we’ve had an amazing yield of crops in the garden this year. All this fantastic fresh produce has been available on our Saturday stall…Read more …
In what seems like the blink of an eye we’ve hurled from what felt like the depths of winter in spring to midsummer, and it’s amazing how much has been happening with our community gardening project on Clapham Common in that time… Lots of spud activity this morning. Will be doing wildflowers for @colourcommon1 this…Read more …
This has certainly been a season of stops and starts but hopefully now we’re in April we’ve finally turned a corner. Our daffodils, broad beans and fruit trees are finally in bloom, and at the weekend our gardeners were gagging to get growing! In our series of monthly gardening workshops the theme of…Read more …
It’s been a long, cold old winter but it hasn’t stopped our intrepid team getting out in our garden and getting ready for the growing season ahead. From mid-January onwards we’ve been tidying, pruning and planting raspberries and redcurrants in our Fruit Beds over by the children’s playground. Adding some gardeners’ gold (manure) from Vauxhall…Read more …
What could be better than being out in the autumn sunshine on Clapham Common, enjoying fab good and fun activities surrounded by lots of friendly faces? Well, our Halloween Happening Pathway Launch certainly had all of that. Then then along came the scary faces… Be afraid! As well as jack o’lantern carving there was leaf…Read more …
For the past few months we have been busy fundraising for access pathways in the extended part of our garden, and we were shown such generosity by the community that we achieved our Spacehive crowdfunding target ahead of time. A huge thanks to everyone who helped us reach our goal of £5,055! On 2 October…Read more …
It’s been a funny old summer with temperatures reaching the highest we’ve known in June since the heatwave in 1976, then we were plunged into a cold snap. But despite the erratic weather we’ve grown an amazing amount of produce in our beds on the Common this summer, something well worth celebrating. And that’s just…Read more …