Would you like to be involved in the Sandgate Community Garden? New volunteers are always welcome, and the crops grown are shared by and with the community of gardeners. This is a volunteer project in the Enbrook Park grounds of Saga.
The Community Garden team are also involved in other projects around Sandgate and Folkestone, including “Incredible Edible” planters by the Golden Valley shops, in Fremantle Road Park, along the High Street and Esplanade.
You can follow all the seasons and keep updated with what is happening. Get involved in the community and learn new skills. There is now a new wildlife pond and are pleased to have 2 bee hives on site. Gardening sessions are run twice a week. Get in touch to find out more.
Follow the progress on Instagram and like or get in touch on Facebook.
Updates written by Leonie Wootton.
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 8th September 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 8th September: The cabbage whites and are being driven mad by the smell of the brassicas. The wet weather stayed with us this week so we put away the water pump and watering cans unless there was something to plant. Unfortunately, as is always the way, the slugs and snails have been encouraged by the wet to come out and make doilies of the Chinese cabbages and generally have a good go at ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 1st September 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 1st September: Special thanks go to Rita and Erica for their many plant contributions. The whole week was dry and very warm which made the watering of the plot the main task; however on Saturday we were treated to a localised downpour in the early hours which seemed to do the job for us. With any luck we may get a few more such showers through the coming week as although rain is ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 25th August 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 25th August: The heavens opened and stayed open for most of the day. It was just as well we had cancelled being at the garden for Saturday morning as the heavens opened and stayed open for most of the day. It was torrential for much of the day, or just downright wet for the rest of the time, an amazing 22.5 mm in just one day. How fortunate we were not to have ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 11th August 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 11th August: our hops are showing signs of ‘burring’. The temperature has been going up, and apparently we are in for a warm weekend and early part of the coming week. We have had to water as much as we can during our garden sessions, which make for less time to be able to do other things, and having to prioritise the tasks. Happily most of our jobs got done, except for tidying ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 18th August 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 18th August: The sweetcorn is swelling fast and fingers are crossed that we get to them before the badgers find them. Most of the week was really warm and so the fabulous downpour of rain during the early hours of Friday morning was most welcome, and enough for us not to have to water at all on Saturday morning, therefore saving us a good deal of time. At last the hedge got the ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 4th August 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 4th August: The Nepalese slipper gourds are clambering away through the cucumbers. Having just complained last week that there was a distinct lack of summer so far, summer arrived this week, and now it starts to look like we are back to cloudy, windy, showery days with a glimpse of sunshine every now and then. Oh well, as we keep being reminded ‘it is England after all’. The rainfall for July was an ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 28th July 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 28th July: A squash seems to be climbing through the hedge. How can it be nearly August when you have been waiting for the summer to arrive? It will be really interesting to see what the rainfall has been for this month, it will be more than usual, and the cloudy days add up to make the month quite disappointing so far. Oh well, some things are certainly enjoying it like most of ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 14th July 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 14th July: Everyone you talk to in the growing world is saying the same thing. We are still stuck in this weather pattern, and it seems that the cloudier, showery weather is to stay for a while longer. Everyone you talk to in the growing world is saying the same thing about their heat loving crops – that they are struggling and really slow in getting going, so at least we are all ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 7th July 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 7th July: Parts of the garden are starting to take on a jungle appearance. The rainfall for June was 17.5 mm. We are now into July and most of us have given up trying to predict what the weather is going to do as it swings from being chilly and windy to bucketing down with rain to glorious sunshine. It is a proper rollercoaster. Most things in the garden are coping well, and ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 30th June 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 30th June: Regenerative farming today, from the politics, to the science, to the everyday practicalities. The longest day has gone and we are hurtling into July, but luckily it has begun to feel like summer and at last the summer plantings are starting to respond to the warmth and sunshine. We have stepped up the watering, and so the sweet corn, beans and squashes are putting on new growth fast. The netting previously ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 23rd June 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 23rd June: The potatoes not eaten by the badgers, and the figs are swelling. Well, it looks like we might have finally turned some sort of weather corner, and can finally look forward to a spell of decent sunshine and warmer temperatures. Of course that always means that we have to get out the watering cans so it is a mixed blessing. On Monday there was quite a gathering at the garden when ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 16th June 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 16th June: Just as you are beginning to think that the weather in June could not possibly get any worse, it does. Just as you are beginning to think that the weather in June could not possibly get any worse, it really does! There have been some interludes when the wind is calm and the sun is out, but then it starts to rain again and blow a hoolie. We got some work ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 9th June 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 9th June: Waitrose had to find homes for some of their tomato plants. It has been dry for most of the week; however it certainly does not feel like June, with lots of cloud cover and a cool breeze most days. We got the tomato plants out last week, and whilst those at Enbrook Park are not looking too bad, those at Pent Farm, being more out in the open, are looking very ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 2nd June 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 2nd June: ‘Flaming June’ it definitely is not. There was certainly no need to worry about having to water the seedlings this week. We have stepped into ‘Flaming June’ already, and ‘Flaming June’ it definitely is not! There was 59.4 mm of rain in the month of May – it felt like there should have been more rain than that. Fortunately this coming week is looking a little more hopeful, with some promised ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 26th May 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 26th May: Stake them, tie them in and remove the first of the side shoots. There has been less of the wet stuff and more of the sunshine this week. Everything in the greenhouses at Pent Farm has suddenly exploded into life and trying to climb out of their pots and so it has been the mission to get as much into the ground as possible, and as soon as possible We planted ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 19th May 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 19th May: The whole park is looking very lush and green with most plants larger than usual. This past week has been full of sunshine and showers. One day it is wall to wall sunshine and the next day it just rains and rains. Consequently the whole park is looking very lush and green, most plants are just larger than usual, including our foxgloves which are currently full of flower. Unfortunately the bindweed, ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 12th May 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 12th May: Finally we have got out the watering cans and had to seriously start watering. It seemed inevitable that as soon as the warm and sunny weather arrived the garden would literally explode into life and start growing really fast. Plenty of sunshine meant that it was a real pleasure to be in the garden, and now there are literally hundreds of plants sitting in the greenhouses at Pent Farm waiting to ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 5th May 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 5th May: Gingerly Green – the polytunnel. The rainfall for April was a respectable 65mm, definitely not as much as we have had in the past few months, but a good amount all the same. We managed to dodge the rain for our two gardening sessions on Wednesday and Saturday, in fact those two days were positively spring-like, being warm and sunny. The sprouting broccoli and the kale have all been removed and ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 28 April 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 28th April: The wet and cold has been perfect for the slug and snail population. How can it be possible that we will be in the month of May in a few days? It managed to get even colder during the nights this past week, and it was not until the weekend that temperatures have improved a little but brought rain again. It will be good to be warmer, but it is the ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 21 April 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 21st April: We must have pricked out more than three hundred marigold seedlings this week. We were all feeling quite optimistic last week that the weather had taken a turn for the better and it was going to get warmer. Unfortunately that did not last too long before we were back to showers and biting cold winds again, with no respite on the horizon for at least a week! We have the luxury ...
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