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July harvest and fresh food!
A major harvest now in progress – mounds of runner beans, courgettes and squashes, cucumbers and our first sweet corn, tomatoes and aubergines. We gathered in the produce Lots of weeding around the beds targeting nettles which keep catching us out as we harvest. We let the docks grow on the site so we have…
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Soggy Saturday
After all that rain we turned up at the Community Garden to find we had to wade through a big puddle to get in. We managed to sweep the water out into the road and down a drain – thankfully unblocked thanks to Neil and Charles. Plastic water bottles get everywhere! Main tasks today were…
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Pop-up pickling, preserving & picnic
The community food growing space on Clapham Common’s Windmill Drive, was a hive of activity on Saturday 11 June. We gathered our first harvest of the season, and already we are getting a taste of what is to come. Picked, preserved and in a pickle Head cook Diana working…
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Common People – Saturday 30 April
The bandstand at Clapham Common came alive on Saturday 30 April for Common People. This event organised by Bandstand Beds (but really David and Simon!) and supported by This is Clapham, was a lovely spring celebration. We had a typical April day of sunshine and threatened showers, which luckily managed to steer clear of us.…
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April newsletter 2016
Easter Plant Parade Our Easter Plant Parade on 26 March awoke to threats of blustery winds and rain — Storm Katie was heading out way! But undeterred, we set up our plant stall bringing our own brand of sunshine: daffodils and violas together with broad beans and bags of salad leaves harvested from the polytunnel.…
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Salad days?
Winter Newsletter 2016 Last year was amazing for Bandstand Beds. We began 2015 with ambitious plans to work with London Borough of Lambeth to reclaim a corner of the green-waste depot (known as the dump) on Clapham Common, and transform it into a community food-growing garden. With the grant funding we raised enabled us to install…
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Fruitful planting
On Saturday 21 November 2015 we arrived at the Clapham Common community garden Saturday with everyone raring to get going with our fruit tree planting, but there was a problem… Unfortunately the nursery we’d ordered the plum, pear and apple trees from had notified us at the last-minute that the trees couldn’t be sent out.…
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Opening Feast – Come Rain or Shine
Come rain or shine… And they did! Despite the poor weather an amazing amount of people came along to the Bandstand Beds Opening Feast for the new food-growing space on Clapham Common’s green-waste site on Saturday 24 October 2015. And while clouds loomed gloomily above there was buzz of excitement and celebration on the…
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Capital Growth: Urban Food Fortnight
Capital Growth: Urban Food Fortnight As summer turns to autumn there’s a lot growing on in London. As part of Capital Growth: Urban Food Fortnight, London opened its doors to numerous gardening projects across the capital on Saturday 19 September 2015. This included our very own Bandstand Beds. Setting off at Clapham North Station The…
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Polytunnel up and ready to go
Brilliant day on Saturday working in the new polytunnel. Ground needed levelling and so many hands made good work of shovelling, raking, and levelling the ground inside the new polytunnel. Then we salvaged some chairs from around the site and had a picnic before planning our next steps.