UCCE Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County: Spring Garden Market 2010
History San Jose, San Jose, California
April 10, 2010
The Master Gardener website has a special Bonus webpage with all the documents, handouts, plant lists, planting tips and a unique Success with Herbs booklet that describes growing, harvesting and using the 15+ herbs sold at the market: http://mastergardeners.org/SGM-Bonus
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Future Farmers of America
Crowd lined up -- first people arrived at 6:45 a.m. for the 9 a.m. ribbon cutting
Cole Canyon Farm sells vegetable starts and herb plants at farmer's markets around the county
Last minute prep
Mary
Collins leads the seeding, up-potting and caring for the ~15,000
tomato plants grown this year (79 varieties) for the Spring Garden Market sale, the April 17th sale at the Palo Alto Demonstration Garden and for the MGs pre-orders. More info on the April 17 sale is here: April 17 PADG Sale
Not only the first customer, but the first for several years in a row
Tomato plants await the crowd waiting for the ribbon cutting
Hamming it up
OK we're ready
We got our laundry baskets
MGs make it happen
Plants are still there
Last peaceful moments
It was a chilly morning but several hundred people waited patiently, reading the tomato and pepper descriptions and making lists. Some people loved that we offered 17 herbs this year and went straight to the herb tables, visiting tomatoes and peppers after that.
Crowd inching forward
Jane and Michael Cohen, Co-Leads
Looking over tomatoes towards peppers
3 ... 2 ...
Red jacket is on her mark
Focus
Lettuce
Thai eggplant I think
Chile heads
Strawberries
Peppers
Somehow he stacks the boxes 3 deep
5 minutes in
That one!
We know people won't wait until May to plant
Dual purpose wagon
The first half hour is bustling and then after that it's just busy
Just getting started
Another 5 minutes in
Reading the description
"Did we decide on Stupice or Kootenai?"
Lots of kids
MG Advisory Board President Dan Johnston caught red handed
Statue of Tomato
Somehow people don't buy just 2 or 3
15 minutes in, the crowd is heavy
First customer
OK where's the checkout ...
Avid cooks
Dogs eat tomatoes too
They bought 900 plants for school kids to grow at a 1-acre plot at a church
Jef took Amtrak from Oakland to San Jose for a Black Cherry Tomato. I just hope he saves seeds.
Food for the Soul chef, her husband and little boy (junior chef) - Food for the Soul is her business. She teaches gardening classes and cooking classes in people's homes.
Marianne Mueller
Last modified: April 11, 2010
Future Farmers of America
Crowd lined up -- first people arrived at 6:45 a.m. for the 9 a.m. ribbon cutting
Cole Canyon Farm sells vegetable starts and herb plants at farmer's markets around the county
Last minute prep
Mary
Collins leads the seeding, up-potting and caring for the ~15,000
tomato plants grown this year (79 varieties) for the Spring Garden Market sale, the April 17th sale at the Palo Alto Demonstration Garden and for the MGs pre-orders. More info on the April 17 sale is here: April 17 PADG Sale
Not only the first customer, but the first for several years in a row
Tomato plants await the crowd waiting for the ribbon cutting
Hamming it up
OK we're ready
We got our laundry baskets
MGs make it happen
Plants are still there
Last peaceful moments
It was a chilly morning but several hundred people waited patiently, reading the tomato and pepper descriptions and making lists. Some people loved that we offered 17 herbs this year and went straight to the herb tables, visiting tomatoes and peppers after that.
Crowd inching forward
Jane and Michael Cohen, Co-Leads
Looking over tomatoes towards peppers
3 ... 2 ...
Red jacket is on her mark
Focus
Lettuce
Thai eggplant I think
Chile heads
Strawberries
Peppers
Somehow he stacks the boxes 3 deep
5 minutes in
That one!
We know people won't wait until May to plant
Dual purpose wagon
The first half hour is bustling and then after that it's just busy
Just getting started
Another 5 minutes in
Reading the description
"Did we decide on Stupice or Kootenai?"
Lots of kids
MG Advisory Board President Dan Johnston caught red handed
Statue of Tomato
Somehow people don't buy just 2 or 3
15 minutes in, the crowd is heavy
First customer
OK where's the checkout ...
Avid cooks
Dogs eat tomatoes too
They bought 900 plants for school kids to grow at a 1-acre plot at a church
Jef took Amtrak from Oakland to San Jose for a Black Cherry Tomato. I just hope he saves seeds.
Food for the Soul chef, her husband and little boy (junior chef) - Food for the Soul is her business. She teaches gardening classes and cooking classes in people's homes.