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 30th March 2025
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 30th March: Who would have thought that mice like nasturtium seeds? It is certainly starting to get very busy at the community garden at Enbrook Park. The sun has been shining for much of the week, and the rain that was promised and already needed failed to do much at all. So it was that we had to take up the watering cans straight away during the Saturday morning session, and a note ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 23rd March 2025
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 23rd March: The banana tree is making a comeback. The temperatures improved this week and it was mostly dry with some sunshine which meant that we have begun watering again. Fortunately there is not much to water but the pots certainly have needed it. The daffodils are now past their best and the bluebells are starting to take over as well as the forget-me-nots. We find that the bluebells seed all over the ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 16th March 2025
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 16th March: Sow yet more seeds with the promise of better weather. This week has seen the return of plummeting temperatures, below average for this time of year. Just as the newly sown seeds were starting to romp away, basking in the glorious warm sunshine of last week, they have now slowed down and have hardly put on any growth at all. However we have braved the cold and continued to prick out ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 9th March 2025
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 9th March: Perfect weather to be sitting and sowing yet more seeds. The weather has been so fabulously sunny and warm this week, it has been a pleasure simply to sit in the garden and enjoy it! Walking through the park to the garden you can hear the birds are enjoying the feel of spring too. The snowdrops were spectacular this year, and now they are giving way to the daffodils and primroses ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 2nd March 2025
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 2nd March: HELLO! WE ARE BACK! In actual fact we have not been away from the community gardens but have been forced on occasions to miss gardening sessions due to the cold or the wet. Quite often we would meet up for just an hour or so before fingers and toes go numb and we abandon the tasks and head for home to defrost or dry out. The rainfall for January was 83.6 ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 15th December 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 15th December: We wish you all a very happy Christmas and New Year. The stormy weather seems to have subsided for now, leaving us with dreary gloomy days with little or no sunshine until it decided to make a surprise appearance on Saturday afternoon. It did mean that we could get to the garden on both of our working mornings, which was a bonus. With the passing of storm Darragh, we took stock ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 8th December 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 8th December: Now you can see just how handsome our resident robin is. We are rapidly hurtling towards the end of the year. The rainfall for November was a healthy but surprisingly low 55.3 mm. We have had so many rainy days of late, however the rain is mostly drizzle and not torrential. Without a doubt the main topic for the weather is the constant battering from storms. They seem to be coming ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 1st December 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 1st December: Prime time for the pigeons to strip many of our plants. We are now in December. The time is flying by and before we know it we will be in February and time to start the whole year of growing all over again. There is plenty to be getting on with before then. Hoping for some quieter weather after storm Bert last weekend, our wish was not to be granted as ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 24th November 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 24th November: One hour of working for the entire week. Good grief! There is much to say about the weather this week for sure. It started off being very cold and icy. Our Wednesday morning session at Enbrook Park was in sunshine but so cold that our fingers and toes soon suffered if we did not keep moving, so it has to be said that we gave up after an hour or so. ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 17th November 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 17th November: An executive decision was taken to lift the dahlias. Happily there was a bit more sunshine this week and a couple of lovely warm spells, although it was not to last and we are to experience close to frost temperatures this coming week. Not really surprising for mid-November. Warm weather has an effect on the clearing of the plots before the winter sets in. For example the asparagus ferns have only ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 10th November 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 10th November: Time for tea and biscuits and a Mighty Mouse. Where has the sunshine gone? We have seen a fleeting glimpse of it this week, but it soon scuttled behind a cloud so that it has been gloomy and dull every day. It seems we are stuck in this weather pattern but hopefully it will change soon. It is easy to forget how quickly it gets dark now in the afternoon. Plans ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 3rd November 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 3rd November: Plenty of flowers but possibly not enough bees to fertilise them. The rainfall for October was a substantial 82.3mm, but this week has continued to be mainly dry with mostly cloudy and dull days with the odd bit of sunshine. However the temperatures are good enough for plants to continue to grow meaning that the grass needs cutting even though it is soggy underfoot. We had meant to cut the hedge ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 27th October 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 27th October: A fast downhill spiral towards the end of the year. The clocks have gone back and now it begins to really feel that we are on a fast downhill spiral towards the end of the year and all that it brings. The weather has continued as it has been for the past few weeks with lots of warm sunshine but less rain than we have had of late. On Wednesday the ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 20th October 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 20th October: Collecting food and storing it for the long cold winter months ahead. The weather was very much like it was last week with periods of beautiful warm sunshine and lots and lots of the wet stuff in-between. It was even the same on Saturday as it was last week in that we had to cancel the morning garden session because of the rain, but there was wall to wall sunshine in ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 13th October 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 13th October: A spectacular show of colour. There was no sitting about enjoying the sunshine this week, although there were plenty of opportunities, just not when it was our formal gardening sessions on a Wednesday and Saturday morning. Unfortunately we had to cancel our session on Saturday because it just rained all morning even though the weather apps kept promising it would brighten up any time soon. The clear night skies gave the ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 6th October 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 6th October: Admire the flowers, watch the bees and butterflies, and listen to the birds singing. This week we have said hello to October and some fine sunny, warm weather. The rainfall for September was 98.5mm, which is quite something for late summer and the start of autumn. The path to the bench was cleared so that it could be seen again, and the winter squash plants taken up and composted as were ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 29th September 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 29th September: Limboing squash eating cows alert. The predictions for the weather this week were spot on – cooler, and plenty of rain giving localised showers. Parts of the country are flooded, so we have come off lightly so far; however it has had an effect on the tasks. We were rained off on our Wednesday session, and although it was just showery and windy, a decision had to be made to cancel ...
Sandgate Community Garden: Update 22nd September 2024
Sandgate Community Garden Team Diary Entry for 22nd September: We harvested our very first and precious lemon from the tiny lemon tree We are now officially into autumn and the weather pattern changed once again after our last newsletter, to dry, sunny and humid. Perhaps it is summer having a final fling, as it seems the coming week will be giving plenty of rain and cooler temperatures. It will certainly be a relief to see the rain again, as the ...
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 ...
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 ...
