The 18th Annual Spring Garden Market
See you at the Spring Garden Market!
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Join us at beautiful History San Jose for our premier plant sale, sustainable gardening showcase and vendor fair! (Directions | Parking Map)
Coming: Plan your day - download the 4-page Spring Garden Market Gazette. It has a map of the Spring Garden Market, schedule of gardening talks and description of talks.
Plant sale
Over 300 varieties of vegetables, herbs and flowers will be on sale, rain or shine! Itching to start planning the garden? The descriptions of plants are tantalizing! Descriptions for 2012 Coming Soon
Master Gardener Sustainable Gardening Showcase
The Spring Garden Market is a day when you can learn about sustainable vegetable gardening, soil and irrigation, composting, native plants, succulents, beneficial insects, waterwise gardening, and much more. Master Gardeners abound and are easy to spot in their blue aprons, so bring your questions, as well as your hand-cart, to the market.
- 40-Minute Talks in the Educational Circle (40 minutes) 2012 details coming
- Short Talks (10 minutes) 2012 details coming
- Sustainable Gardening Showcase. Hands-On Displays All-Star Arboretum Plant Picks. Native Plants and Beneficials. Waterwise Plants. Growing Succulents in the Garden. Drip Irrigation. Worm Composting.
- Hotline LIVE! and Plant Clinic Drop by with all your gardening questions.
- Tool Care It's easier than you think to keep your tools sharp and in tip-top condition.
- Animal Pest Control Got gophers, moles, voles or other critters? Drop by for advice.
- Green Elephant Sale From our garden sheds to yours! Bargains on pots, tools, and gardening items of every sort.
- Our Favorite Tools Sale We compiled over 25 years of experience from 300+ Master Gardeners to come up with our top choices of books, tools, gloves and gardening items.
- UC Gardening Publications Display Oodles of free pamphlets as well as excellent reference books for you to browse. Not on sale at the market: purchase online from UC: ipm.ucdavis.edu
Vendor Fair
Vendors line both sides of the Main Street in History San Jose. Nurseries, plant societies, urban farmers, beekeepers and conservation groups are found alongside vendors of containers and raised beds, apparel, mosaics and even chicken coops. See the list of vendors for an idea of our colorful "Main Street."
Amenities
To enable you to have fun at the gardening talks and tables, and at the Vendor Fair, there is a Plant Daycare where you may leave your purchases securely. There is no charge.
Wonderful food vendors provide lunch, drinks, snacks.
History San Jose is a wonderful amenity itself. Wander the beautiful park and see the historical buildings, beautifully restored, along with their gardens. And don't forget to visit the old-fashioned ice cream shop in the Hotel building!
Plan Your Day ~ Schedule of Gardening Talks
The Spring Garden Market is sponsored by the Friends of Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County.
We are pleased to have History San Jose and San Jose Mercury News as supporters of our Market.