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.
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Updates written by Leonie Wootton.
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 11 June 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 11th June: The mole is happily making earth mounds and pushing up seedlings. The strong winds were still a feature this week, and then the temperature started to climb so that by Saturday it was sweltering. The weather report keeps talking of thunderstorms in the south east of England; however as is usual with Sandgate, we suspect they will pass by our corner of the country again, with no rain expected at all ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 4 June 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 4th June: The hand of little bananas and Disco Soup. Just as we got to the weekend, the first in June, it started to warm up, and the winds have dropped for some parts of the day. The ground is now very dry as although there has not been much in the way of sunshine, the strong winds have had a drying effect. The banana tree was just about to produce a flower ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 28 May 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 28th May: Seeds are not always what they seem to be, or say they are. Looking back at this time last year it seems we are about two to three weeks behind with our planting and the physical growth of the plants. It was also a surprise to be reminded that this time last year we were busy with Jubilee celebrations for the late Queen. Such a lot has happened both locally and ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 21 May 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 21st May: An oasis right in the middle of a concrete jungle. It was a particularly busy gardening session on Wednesday. The nursery school from Saga came to have a look at the plot as well as new visitors there for the first time and some familiar faces from last summer/autumn. We sowed plenty of outdoor cucumber seeds, and then planted the courgettes and dwarf beans. It has all become a juggling act ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 13 May 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 13th May: Longer, warmer daylight hours are contributing to a faster rate of growth. There is not much to be said about the weather this week. We lurch from one warm sunny day to rain and wind the next; however it seems that our little corner of the world has missed out on torrential downpours just a little further inland. The longer, warmer daylight hours are certainly contributing to a fast rate of ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 6 May 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 6th May: Bore Place, Bumblebees and Muddy Wellies. The rainfall for April was 89.5mm, so it is hardly surprising we have been looking forward to signs of warmth and better days. A couple of good sunny days this week have suddenly revived most of the plants and we have had to start watering newly planted seedlings and potted plants. On Tuesday a few of us had a meeting at Bore Place near Sevenoaks ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 30 April 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 30th April: An enormous surge in slug and snail numbers hiding amongst the leaves and potted plants. It is quite difficult to describe exactly what is going on with the weather this past week. Oodles more rain, longer daylight hours of course, but a sharp cold wind; a surprising few hours of brilliant sunshine when you least expect it and certainly not appearing on the weather apps. We are now coming into May ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 23 April 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 23rd April: Coming soon – tomatoes for EVERYONE. We seem to be stuck in a weather pattern of perpetual winter/early spring; cold and wet with the odd smattering of sunshine to lull you into a false sense of security to sow more seeds and plant yet more plants before it turns cold and dismal again, and you are left wondering how anything would want to grow. The early spring flowers of daffodils and ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 16 April 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 16th April: Quickly planting the turnips and lettuces before the next downpour. Crikey! Just when you are beginning to think that the weather could not possibly get worse, what with below average temperatures and copious amounts of rain – it really does! Storm Noa rip roared through this week with gale force winds followed by rather impressive hailstones and yet more and more rain. Our Wednesday gardening session at Enbrook Park was a ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 9 April 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 9th April: Happy holiday y’all! Well, not too sure that we are out of the woods as regards the frosty weather but it seems that the plants are just starting to wake up and do something at last albeit a little tentatively. The little orchard in the Sandgate Park got weeded and some more herbs planted. The bulbs there are just starting to flower, and there are new leaves or blossoms which have ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 2 April 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 2nd April: Ten varieties of tomato, coming soon. That sunny warm spring seems to still be eluding us, with a continuation of yet more rain and stormy days. The rainfall for March was 109.3mm, double the monthly average. In March last year the total was just 29.5mm. Sandgate is filled with the sounds of chainsaws felling trees and the loud crunching of the wood chipping machines. It has been going on all week ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 26 March 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 26th March: Time ticks on. Crikey! The clocks have moved forward an hour, how did we get to that point already? The winds have been an issue this week with yet more downpours of rain; we had to cancel the Wednesday session following on from the previous cancelled Saturday session, which meant we had a fair bit to catch up with on Saturday. We sowed more onion seeds, and a tray of spinach, ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 19 March 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 19th March: A bee, or not a bee? We had a touch of frost during the week but from then onwards the temperatures have started to climb, and although we are not out of the woods as regards the possibility of frosts, we can at least restart the sowing of seeds, and the current seedlings stand more of a chance of getting growing. We had good enough weather for the Wednesday morning gardening ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 12 March 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 12th March: A truck, six tons of compost and plenty of muscle It has been avery interesting week as regards the weather. There have been lashings of rain with cold icy blasts of wind, dismal grey skies with a glimpse of the sun every now and then. It was bucketing it down with rain on Wednesday when we were due to have another gardening session at Enbrook Park, so it was decided to ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 5 March 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 5th March: Good news from Thanet Earth. Believe it or not we were actually short of rain for the month of February, with a mere 10.3mm of the wet stuff registered. It continues to be chilly so the seedlings are still not moving much. In the past we would have planted the radishes and the pea shoots by now, but they are still not quite ready, and with the threat of frosts to ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 26 February 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 26th February: Seasonality, and the mole in our midst. No, we do not have any tomatoes, cucumbers, strawberries or bell peppers growing in the garden at the moment, and it seems the supermarkets do not have any either. The global market has told us that we can have any fruit or vegetable we want at any time of the year, and so we have come to expect that. When the far away countries ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 19 February 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 19th February: The strange case of the out of place Hume’s Warbler. The snowdrops are out, as are the first of the daffodils and the primroses; all of which can be seen in their glory from the walking paths around Enbrook Park. The weather has continued to be predominately dry, and although chilly it really feels like spring is on the way at last. On walking through the park this week it was ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 12 February 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 12th February: The huge Saga quandary. It was with great sadness that we heard this week that Saga is to close their office and children’s nursery at Enbrook Park with effect from 17th March. With our main garden being on site, it meant that we were in a quandary as to what this would mean for us and the Community Garden – do we bother to sow any seeds from now on? Do ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 5 February 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 5th February: From repotting strawberries to space planning in Singapore. So now we are into February. The rainfall for January was a mere 63.9mm, something nearer to what we are used to, and the ground is starting to dry out. No frosts this week, and even a day when the temperature was in double figures, however it looks to change to being much colder but brighter next week. On Monday a small group ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 29 January 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 29th January: life is very slowly starting to awaken in the garden at Enbrook. Hooray! There has not been quite so much in the way of rain this week. Plenty of dull and freezing cold days but the sunshine has made an appearance once or twice. Although the gardens are quiet this time of year, there is certainly plenty going on in the background with all sorts of new projects, events and garden ...
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