Spadework

Harvest Festival Vegetable Competition
Do you have a marrow the size of a Zeppelin taking over your allotment? Or a python-like cucumber dangling in your greenhouse? In fact, if you have grown any extraordinary fruit, vegetable or salad be sure to enter Spadework’s Harvest Festival Vegetable Competition at the next Offham Farmers’ Market on Saturday September 8th. All entries must be in by 11:00am on the day. Winners will be announced at 12:45 pm. There are loads of categori...es, ranging from longest runner bean and heaviest potato through to the ugliest tomato or stick of rhubarb. There’s even one for the most perfect set of plums!
Please follow the link below for all the do's and don'ts:
http://spadework.net/…/Vegetable-Compet ition-dos-and-donts.…
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Our craft department are looking for a 6' ladder to renovate into shelving. Does anyone have an old but sturdy ladder they no longer use. Thank you 🔨

Brighten up your home, patio or balcony with our range of indoor and outdoor Taylors bulb growing kits.

Summer holiday blues? Fed up with hearing "I'M BORED" with 4 weeks still to go of the summer break ☹️
We have the answer 👇
Family Workshop at Spadework 🌻
... Join us for a family session of alpine planting to make mini gardens or a plant stack.
Date: Tuesday 28th - Friday 31st August. Time: 9.30 - 11.30am or 1.15 - 3.15pm for approximately 1 hr. Cost: £5 - £30 (price dependent on materials and plants used)
Please call 01732 870002 to book your session.
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More Ukes On The Hill at Spadework

Ukes On The Hill at Spadework

A big thank you to Howdens in Sevenoaks for donating this oven.

A massive Spadework Thank You to 'Ukes On The Hill' for performing at our Farmer's Market this month. We loved it!

A huge Spadework thank you to Gill and Ann at the Taylor Wimpey sales office at Leybourne Chase for arranging their ex-display sale today and for everyone that turned up to grab a bargain! All of the money raised will go directly to providing meaningful opportunities for adults with learning and other disabilities at our site in Offham. Thank You!

Hope to see some of you tomorrow

A huge Spadework thank you to ASDA in Kings Hill for donating £500 as a result of us winning their recent green token campaign.

All perennials and shrubs half price whilst stocks last. Hurry while the sun shines and the rain falls. 😊

The ugliest looking carrots always taste the best

A Lovely Rock found in the Spadework Garden centre in Offham. We have left it where it is so that someone else can hide it again. Thank you! It brightened up the staff and trainee’s day to find it.

Not long to go until our next Farmers’ Market!

Spadework catered for a function at the fabulous Fruit Rooms at Hugh Lowe Farms today, providing breakfast, brunch, lunch and afternoon tea. Our amazing Staff, Volunteers and Trainees all worked so hard to get this ready in time, even coming in a few hours early this morning to put the finishing touches on our tasty pastries, sausage rolls, quiches, sandwiches, biscuits and many other goodies. A massive thank you to everyone who helped make this happen! We hope everyone enjoyed eating it, as much as we enjoyed preparing it.

Would like to say a massive thank you to the fabulous staff in the tea room for the afternoon tea I shared with my mum yesterday! Delicious sandwiches, gorgeous scones, scrummy coffee and walnut cake, light and fluffy lemon drizzle and hot hot tea! It was all wonderful from the tablecloth to the china cups and saucers to the flowers on the table - just as an afternoon tea should be! I have and will recommend, and I will be back for another one day very soon!! Thanks you x

Wonderful! Had a delivery of logs today, what a wonderful friendly group, very polite and they stacked all the logs into the shed for me. Great service and great amount of logs. Thankyou.

We visited Spadework last Monday and we loved it. Yes, there are [very small] things which could be improved, but overall the feel of the nursery was relaxed, homely and informal. The staff were all friendly and personable. The plants really are fantastic quality and very reasonably priced. We won’t be going anywhere else for our plant stocks now. Thank you Spadework, what a wonderful place you’ve created. �

We have just had the most delightful team of trainees from Spadework come to our home. They picked all of the apples from our two trees in record time. They were so polite, friendly and hard working, we can't thank them enough.We hope the apples are good enough for your juice. A great big THANK YOU to John,Graham,Kirsty,Tom,Jonathan,James Brown and Simon. It was an absolute pleasure to have met you all. Also, just to make everyone aware, Spadework now do landscape and garden services, something to consider if you or someone you know needs a helping hand in the garden. We can't recommend them highly enough.

We had a lovely morning at spadework got two trolly full of plants and a basket as well filled our car up found the standard and quality of plants above and beyond friendly helpful people cafe is excellent the atmosphere has a warm welcome about the place a very dear friend introduced me to you and now wouldn’t go anywhere else see you soon spadework will be spreading the word

We are away for a few weeks. Spadework will keep some bedding plants for our return. Wonderful

Today was amazing visit everyone was so happy to see me it was fantastic to come and visit on a beautiful day like today and see my friends and the staff there all happy to see me thank you for making me so welcome today I will be back again soon

Spadeworks is a joy to visit. The plants are the best.The trainees are so helpful . You can always get good advice. Ordered two bags of logs. Good price and when they arrived they even stacked them for us for no extra cost. Thank you Spadeworks your the best. Sue and Geoff xx

Spadework is the perfect example how Individuals with learning difficulties should be taught and treated like any other Person.

I worked there for a wile and being a Volunteer just a few times, because I am not in the UK most at the time, I can't help as much I wishing.

But Spadework has a very big place in my Heart.

Spadework is a lovely place to work. We all work as a team to get Jobs done. We have a café and we also have other department like Horticulture, Veg area, Glasshouse, Potting shed, Gardening and woodwork. So please come along to visit

Myself and some of my family have been here twice ( I'm from Liverpool),the first time we visited was to celebrate my Aunt's 100th birthday , it was. Just a delight to meet all the lovely people that work and run this place , they where so hospitable and welcomed and spoilt us with a beautiful lunch , and made a big fuss of my Aunt (who was a regular there ) fabulous place and wonderful people , I hope I get the chance to revisit

My nephew has been a student at Spadework for many years and I visit each summer for the fair. Yesterday I visited with my brother and sister in law as I am staying with them in Tonbridge. I always like Apple juice and was able to buy cards and woodwork pieces as well. We also went into cafe which was nice. I look forward to next summer fair.

My brother is a trainee at Spadework and loves it. we have been to the fairs and markets (which are really good). It’s a wonderful place with special people working there.

Many thanks for the lovely rose and fuchsias purchased today they will brighten our little garden beautifully.

Lovely people, very much respect people who work for charity, and help those with illnesses, Kris is a top bloke, 100% Respect.

Lovely garden centre with a terrific atmosphere. We bought lots of plants today and Oliver was extremely helpful and chatty. We also had lunch yesterday which was delicious, especially the salad which had different herbs in. Will definitely recommend to our family and friends. Wouldn't buy our plants from anywhere else now.

Love it! Lovely cafe, healthy plants and a shop for produce.

It's a lovely place to visit, great plants, cafe and more, staff working there are always so helpful and it's an amazing charity!

Found this nice little treat as a stop gap on journey back home from holiday, lovely lunch and friendly staff!