For release: April 11, 2013
News and Media Relations contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or Randy.Weiler@mtsu.edu
MTSU plant sale
contact: Dr. Cliff Ricketts, 615-898-2430 (office), 615-308-7605 (cell) or Cliff.Ricketts@mtsu.edu
MURFREESBORO — The
MTSU School of Agribusiness and Agriscience annual plant sale will be held from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. the next three Thursdays and Fridays (April 11-12, April 18-19
and April 25-26).
Open to the general public and campus community, the sale
takes place in the Horticulture Center on Lightning Way. It is across from the
backside of the Tennessee Livestock Center.
Off-campus
visitors should obtain a visitor’s parking pass
from Parking
Services, located on East Main Street at the west entrance to campus. To find
parking near the Horticulture Center, a printable campus map is available at http://tinyurl.com/MTParkingMap12-13.
Students enrolled in a class called “Horticulture in Our
Lives” have grown the plants, and funds from the sale are used for
scholarships, said Dr. Cliff Ricketts, the event organizer.
Available for sale are a large selection of hanging baskets
and bedding plants.
The hanging baskets include Wave petunias, coleus, Wandering
Jew and lantana. No ferns are available this year. Bedding plants include
petunias, impatiens, begonias, vinca, snapdragon, celosia, coleus and Dusty
Miller.
New to the sale this year will be marigolds.
Geraniums are $3 for a 6-inch pot. All hanging baskets and
flats are $12.
Vegetable plants for sale include tomatoes (Bradley and Big
Boy), peppers, okra, squash, cucumber and more.
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