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April 2021

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The slightly warmer weather has started to move some of the plants this week. There was kale, purple sprouting, chard and spinach to pick, ther e is also wild garlic (popular for making into pesto) , coriander, and a few mustard leaves which are now mature enough to make your eyes water they are that hot! The broad beans were flowering underneath the fleece covers so we took them off or the pollinators will not be able to find them. The fleece had been protecting the beans as well as the weeds so there was plenty to sort out. As fast as we weed the sycamore seedlings all over the plot, they pop up again to make it look like nothing has been cleared.

There is a photo below showing the purple shoots of the Hythe Hops just poking through, totally surrounded by sycamore seedlings, and that is just in one small space! So all the hops have survived their first winter and are all Sowing seeds and showing. The hairy twine which the recovering after Covid hops use to climb up has been fixed or replaced ready for them to romp away bigger and hopefully better than last year.

It seems that most of the plants have survived, and although we lost the annual flowers that seemed to come through the previous winter, they had time to seed, and we can see nasturtiums, violas and pot marigolds popping up making the weeding more challenging to identify what to keep and what to hoe. The welsh onions are just starting to flower, which will be appreciated by the insects, and with any luck provide us with more seeds. Welsh onions are a perennial which just keep dividing and making more onions. We are still using the seeds from our chives to grow lots of new plants.

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We are all very excited that from next week we will be able to have six of us at a time back in the garden, no more shifts of working in ones and twos for just an hour at a time. We welcomed back one of our gardeners who has been away for months recovering from Covid and the after symptoms. Once she had managed to stagger up the hill to the garden, she could at least sit in the sunshine and sow some seeds and gather some energy to walk home again, armed with some spinach and kale to make a smoothie to help on the road to recovery. In celebration we think that next week we should certainly indulge in some cake sharing to mark the start of spring, the chance to work together again and look forward to better times to come (like planting tomatoes perhaps!)

Reminder –From Wednesday 21st April – Tomato plants are available Last but not least a big THANK YOU to the supermarket Morrison’s for very kindly donating 10 plants, a mix of perennial flowering plants, herbs and a gooseberry bush. Some of them are to A view of the plot starting to show green shoots be planted at Enbrook Park, whilst others will go to the garden at Fremantle Park. We have an invitation to come back again for more plants when they have more stock with particular plants we have on our wish list.

What’s next?

• Stake the broad beans and run twine around • Stake the edges of the raspberry patch • Can the pond be put back together yet?

• Sow fancy nasturtiums, leeks and celeriac • Plant gaps in onion beds • Have the new rhubarb plants arrived?

• Plant more perennials in the flower garden area • Keep pot plants watered and newly planted seedlings 3

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Tim Prater: a Local Champion

Tim Prater has lived and worked in Sandgate since 2004.

He puts forward the views of local people on our Town, Parish and District Councils. He’s the Local Choice.

Tim stands up for local people. He has helped hundreds of people locally with casework, and fixed problems across the area. He Works Hard All Year Round.

Tim gets things done. From CCTV in Sandgate, new zebra crossings installed, improving the Lower Leas Park, fighting against Princes Parade development and more. He’s a Local Champion.

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County Election Special: Close race expected in Cheriton, Sandgate and Hythe East In the 2017 County Council elections in this area, Lib Dem Tim Prater came a clear second to the Conservatives.

In the 2019 District Elections, Tim took the formerly safe Conservative seat of Sandgate & West Folkestone with 55% of the vote. He’s a proven winner.

As in 2019, the local Lib Dem and Green Party branches have agreed not to stand against each other to try to maximise our chances of bringing positive change, this time at Kent County Council.

Shepway Green Party is backing Tim Prater to beat the Conservatives in Cheriton, Sandgate & Hythe East in the County Council elections this year.

Hard working local campaigner TIM PRATER can beat the Conservatives here.

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2017 County Council Election result last time here in Cheriton, Sandgate & Hythe East

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All now available in paperback and on Kindle Set in Folkestone in the heady days of the late 60s.

They say if you can remember it, you weren't there!

Two plays. One an imaginary meeting between Dylan Thomas and Brendan Behan in a Fitzrovia pub. The other is Caitlin Thomas reminiscing after the untimely death of her husband.

This is the tale of Hana, a young girl who moves from where she was born in London, to the Kent coast. They discover a wonderful area called Prince's Parade which is full of amazing animals, has a beautiful canal and is right next to the sea too! By buying this book you will be helping to protect it. All profits from it will be donated to the Save Prince's Parade campaign which aims to halt plans to develop the area into a housing estate.

Very funny, and surreal story about a man and a woman on their first date: Bolton Brady and Veda, set in London, November 2001. Bolton is forty, not into assets, has never lived with a woman and looked into the future and seen loneliness. So he decides to do something about it. He advertises in a lonely-hearts column, and receives six replies, but after experiencing one disaster after another only Veda remains between him and his sanity. As the day unfolds the line between reality and fantasy becomes blurred, building to a surreal, yet poignant, conclusion.

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This walk through the history of Sandgate to the present day was first performed at the Chichester Hall a decade ago on Wednesday, 9th June. It is now available on Kindle or in paperback.

Now available on Amazon. Great evocative yarns of worldly travels.

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