2011 Plant Sales

Plant Sales:

Dowling Community Garden Plant Sale May 14th, 10am-1pm
Urban gardeners!  Dowling Community Garden holds its annual plant sale featuring vegetables, herbs and flowers -- including many hard-to-find varieties. Expect an astonishing array of heirloom and hybrid tomatoes, peppers, eggplants (and other vegetables!), herbs and lovely old-fashioned annual and perennial flowers. Come early for the best selection.
The sale will be held in the historic Dowling Community Garden at 39th Street and 46th Avenue South in Minneapolis. Dowling is one of the oldest Victory Gardens in the country; for more information visit www.dowlingcommunitygarden.org.
 

“Cans For Sam” plant sale, Saturday, May 14, 8 am – 2 pm
3608-38th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN
ALL proceeds go to help homeless / hurt animals. It’s a great sale where you can purchase heirloom tomatoes / peppers, MN grown perennials (most are separated from friends’ and neighbors’ gardens), hanging baskets, annuals, herbs, etc. There are even some baked goods and doggie / kitty toys & blankets. There will be coffee and Linda’s famous Amore Polenta cake, too!

CANDO Plant Sale, Saturday, May 14 10am-3pm
Hosmer Library, Minneapolis
CANDO volunteers will sell vegetable and flower seedlings to benefit the Central neighborhood organization.   The sale will feature tomatoes and tomatillos, cucumbers and watermelons, habenero and jalepeno peppers, sweet and bell peppers, greens like collards and sorrel and herbs like hyssop and basil.  Volunteers needed!   To help, contact CANDO (the Central neighborhood organzation) - thanks!  www.thecentralneighborhood.com or 612-824-1333

Bethany Gardens Plant Sale, Friday, May 20, 8am-6pm
6617 Lynwood Blvd, Richfield
Come support this brand-new community garden in Richfield!  They will be selling perennials including several varieties of hostas, raspberries, anemone, primrose, ferns, siberian irises, lamium, bleeding hearts, and more.  They will also be selling some tomatoes and other veggies.

University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardener Plant Sale, Saturday May 21, 9am-2pm
Hopkins Pavilion, 11000 Excelsior Blvd, Hopkins
Come celebrate spring and the beginning of a new gardening season with us! Buy
beautiful plants for sun or shade at great prices. Plants are grown by Master Gardeners
with tender loving care. Master Gardeners will answer your gardening questions and
provide helpful information on the plants you purchase.
We will accept cash or checks only, please. Bring a wagon or cart. You’ll want to buy
lots of plants!
Proceeds from this sale benefit University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardener
Program in Hennepin County community programs.
For more information on this sale and the Master Gardeners Program, visit our website
at, www.hcmg.umn.edu, or call our office at 612-596-2130.