Get there early for the primo stuff
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| URI Master Gardeners will hold their spring plant sale Saturday morning, May 4, on the University’s Kingston Campus. The plant sale is open to the public. (URI Photos / Cooperative Extension) |
Got tomatoes? Broccoli?
How about some peppers? On Saturday, May 4, the University of Rhode Island
Cooperative Extension’s Master Gardener Program will hold its annual spring plant sale, open to the public, from 9
a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Kingston Campus’ botanical gardens on Greenhouse Road,
Kingston campus.
The plant sale will feature annuals, perennials, herbs, and vegetable seedlings — including the 2024 Plant of the Year, Gourmet Orange Bell Pepper — grown by URI Master Gardener propagation volunteers in URI’s East Farm greenhouses.
This annual sale supports educational services offered
through the URI Master Gardener Program throughout the year, including the
gardening and environmental hotline, gardening information and soil testing
exhibits, and ongoing educational workshops.
This year’s plant sale will feature annuals, perennials,
herbs, and vegetable seedlings, including the 2024 Plant of the Year, Gourmet
Orange Bell Pepper, all grown by URI Master Gardener volunteers in URI
greenhouses. Master Gardeners will be on hand to field gardening questions,
too.
Thousands of plants will be available for purchase by
credit card or cash. URI Master Gardeners will also be there to answer lawn and
garden questions.
Attendees may park behind the URI Fine Arts building in Lot 7 off Flagg Road. A pathway down the hill leads directly to the greenhouse fire lane where the plant sale line begins.
Kate Venturini Hardesty, administrator of the Master
Gardener program at URI, says the sale is a great way to support the mission of
the Master Gardener program at URI.
“This event brings gardeners together and is a venue for us to promote the URI Gardening and environmental hotline and our public workshops at libraries around Rhode Island, and to give away free seeds courtesy of the Ocean State Job Lot Charitable Foundation and conduct free soil pH tests (bring a sample!). I think people can feel good about supporting the sale because it’s ultimately benefiting everyone who takes advantage of what we offer.”
Visit https://web.uri.edu/coopext/for more information.