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BPCG at Home
In 2021, we want to grow and sell lots more house plants to raise funds for ...
Inside/Outside
This week, we will be starting our big winter greenhouse clean. It’s the best time of year to do this because we have very few plants growing in them now. We will clean the windows to remove limescale. This will bring even more light inside for the plants. We will also clean the staging with a […]
Working up an Alternate Nativity
This week in the garden, we will be working on all the fantastic willow that Lambeth kindly let us have from the prunings of the childrens’ willow tunnel in the park playground. We will make bases for Christmas wreaths and we are also going to make willow sculptures of farm animals, the odd reindeer – and […]
Know your Onions
This week in the garden we will prepare the roots bed in the lower garden, (the bed next to the cob oven) and plant three different varieties of onion sets, the lovely red onion ‘Electric’, a white variety called ‘Snowball’ and a yellow variety called ‘Radar’. Onion sets are small onions grown from seed the […]
A Big Despatch, The Staircase and Dried Things
This week, we are going to be sending out 150 of our Mint and Basil Plants, jars of Rosemary Salt and Lemon Verbena Tea, together with 150 bottles of Apple Juice from The Orchard Project, 150 jars of South London Honey from beekeeper Karin Courtman, 300 Masks made by South London Makerspace and 150 each of our Outdoor play and learning […]
Growing Wild, Green Tomatoes, Outdoor Gig and How to Meet up More
We are really chuffed to be announced as winners of the Growing Wild category in the 2020 #UrbanFoodAwards. It’s a big honour. Thank you to everyone at BPCG for making this happen! This week in the garden, we will be doing some nursery work in the greenhouse on Thursday morning and putting up and maintaining signs in […]