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 15 January 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 15th January: Compost, wild garlic, weeding and sustainable futures. Another week has flown by with yet more wind, plenty of rain, and the odd bit of sunshine in-between. We managed to catch a good day on our Wednesday morning session, but Saturday morning was a complete washout once again so not all of the tasks for the week got done. Already it is still daylight by gone four o’clock in the afternoon which ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 08 January 2023
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 8th January: Happy New Year! Looking back at the archive Sandgate Community Garden updates on the Parish Council website reminds us that the New Year newsletters for 2021 and 2022 both commented on the very high winds. This year seems to be no different. The rainfall for December was 88.6 mm, the second highest recording for 2022. November had the most rainfall of 194 8mm, whilst July was the lowest at 5.4mm. It ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 18 December 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 18th December: A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from us all at the Sandgate Community Gardens. Most of the week the theme has been freezing cold frost and ice, and on Saturday the thaw began, and we will be back to warmer, wetter and windier weather. It certainly does not look like it will be a white Christmas in Sandgate, more like a soggy dull one. It seemed like a good ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 11 December 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 11th December: We’ve got chills – they’re multiplying… At last the first real hard frost has arrived which still seems to have caught us unawares with a flurry of searching for enough lengths of fleece to cover the broad beans which are the only plants that need it. Being warmer here than it is inland, we are holding our breath that it stays that way and the beans can survive minus three degrees, ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 4 December 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 4th December: A rubbish place to bury your acorns. The Christmas lights are all up and on in the High Street and at last the weather is starting to be seasonably as cold as it probably should be. The rainfall for November was recorded locally as being 196.6 mm which is the most ever recorded for our records. We always report that just north of Sandgate there seems to be more rain, and ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 27 November 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 27th November: The Christmas Tree has arrived before the first frost… The Sandgate Christmas tree arrived this week and was promptly hoisted into place on the village green outside the chip shop. It seems hard to believe it is that time of year again, but here we are, time is hurtling on towards the shortest day of the year. You may have noticed that the Christmas tree is not the only tree on ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 20 November 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 20th November: Fortune Two and Combo have landed. When the Bewick’s swans arrive in the UK from Russia it is said to mark the beginning of winter. This year they have arrived later than at any time since 1965 probably because their Arctic home is getting warmer or perhaps they have been trying to dodge the missiles in their mission to seek out warmer weather. Nineteen year old Fortune Two and Combo were ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 13 November 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 13th November: Badgers One, Strawberries Nil. We had escaped the strong winds and storms this summer but they have been back with a vengeance this past week. The last of the seedlings for this year had to be rescued from a cold frame in danger of being toppled despite being strapped to a fence. It would have been a disaster to lose 120 broad bean seedlings but happily they were planted out over ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 6 November 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 6th November: Keeping our cabbage white butterfly caterpillars well-fed, fat and healthy. Are you interested in your local neighbourhood, the environment and how we as residents as well as visitors, interact with our facilities and businesses? Are you interested in the impact of globalisation on us all and how the growing worldwide movement of localisation and sustainability is fighting back to become more self-sufficient, resilient and stable in an uncertain world? Then you ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 30 October 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 30th October: Anyone for Slug Fritters? Oh dear oh dear, with temperatures of 20 degrees this week and plenty of moisture, the slugs are having a wonderful time and have turned the Chinese cabbages to something resembling paper doilies, they are so full of holes. Our new routine of checking the cold frames for slugs has been most fruitful with several being caught each time. It is such a shame that slugs are ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 23 October 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 23rd October: Planning forward and planting for 2023. We are just coming up to the ideal time to be preparing the ground for next year and to be thinking about cutting back old growth and getting the gardens tidy. However the warm weather continues, pushing back the dormant time for plants. In the Meadowbrook alley garden, the globe artichokes had been cut right back at the end of summer, but the new shoots ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 16 October 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 16th October: Comparing notes, know your mushrooms and the flight of the Sandgate Storks… We have all sorts of interesting people come up to the garden at Enbrook Park to have a look around and to chat. Many visitors to the area and local residents drop by; some of them on a regular basis to see how the garden is doing; to look at what is in season and perhaps compare how the ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 9 October 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 9th October: Keeping the garden tidy, a full pond and late growth. After all the rushing around of the last few weeks, getting all the plants into the ground and settled in as quickly as possible, it has suddenly gone very quiet now in the garden, giving time to catch up with a few things and to actually sit down and spend time having a good chat to volunteers and visitors. There is ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 2 October 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 2nd October: From the Brockhill walled kitchen garden to a more sustainable Sandgate. We are into October already and still in the process of getting out as many of the autumn plants as possible, either in the ground, or under cover in the cold frames. The rainfall for September was a fantastic 84.1mm which is the most we have had in one month for the entire year. The tree leaves had already taken ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 25 September 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 25th September: It really has started to feel autumnal. It really has started to feel autumnal; the days are noticeably shorter which means that the plants need so much longer to grow. A tray of lettuces pricked out just a week ago is struggling to get growing whereas in the height of the summer they would have grown twice as fast. Most of the leafy vegetables are appreciating the cooler temperatures and the ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 18 September 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 18th September: A sudden and unexpected flowering in the Queen’s Orchard. It has been a long long time since we had to say that we were rained off one of our gardening sessions. It happened this Wednesday, with hours of the sort of useful rain that started to soak into the ground and begin to make a difference. We have gained so much time, not having to water most of the plot, and ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 11 September 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 11th September: Remembering the Queen, and life going on. It was on that very morning, Thursday 8th September that the Sandgate Society sent out an email to announce that the fabulous topper for the Sandgate letter box outside the Village Shop to mark the Queen’s Jubilee had been presented to the Society for posterity. There is a photo of it below, and it can be seen at the Old Fire Station when open ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 4 September 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 4th September: Oh, you’re going to rain NOW, are you? We are delighted to report that the Sea Festival was a great success for us and we managed to raise a massive £422.27 profit. We are very grateful to everyone who came along to the stall to spend some cash. We sold practically all of the plants we are glad to say, and 26 jars of Sandgate honey! Trying to guess the weight ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 28 August 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 28th August: Sea Festival preparations, the approach of autumn and why you should never attack wasps. This newsletter is being written on the eve of the Sandgate Festival, so when you get to read it, the event will probably be all over. We will be reporting back on how well we did at our stall in next week’s news with some photographs. Not to be outdone by all the other professional stalls, we ...
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Sandgate Community Garden: Update 21 August 2022
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 21st August: final reminder of our appearance at the Sandgate Sea Festival next Sunday 28th August on the seafront! What a difference a week has made! We got a little bit of rain at the very start of the week which was enough to freshen the garden but certainly not enough to make an impression when suddenly on Wednesday we were treated to a torrential downpour which, looking at the weather app was ...
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