Plant Sale!

Saturday, May 7, 2022
50 Talent Avenue
9 a.m.–3 p.m.

The Talent Garden Club is an organization that promotes environmentally healthy practices, that educates about best gardening practices, that encourages the formation of pollinator gardens, and that finances scholarships for students pursuing horticulture related majors. We have a plant sale every May in order to raise funds for scholarships and community garden projects. (Thank you to Rogue Valley Compost for helping to make this plant sale possible!) Through our fundraising efforts, we have given out scholarships to Phoenix High School seniors, supported the creation of community pollinator gardens in Talent, and given grants to organizations like Access community garden, Rogue Farm Corps, and the Farm to School program.

This year, we will not be having an online plant sale. However, we will have an in-person sale at 50 Talent Avenue from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. on Saturday, May 7th. We will have more than 150 varieties of tomatoes available. If you would like to browse them before you buy, check out the pdfs here. (Tomatoes are numbered this year so that you can easily find your desired variety at our in-person sale.) We will also have a wide variety of flowers, vegetable starts, and more.

Beefsteak Tomatoes

Cherry Tomatoes

Container-Dwarf

Early Tomatoes

Globe Tomatoes

Grape Tomatoes

Paste Tomatoes

Plum Tomatoes

Specialty Tomatoes

Thank you to everyone who participated in our online tomato sale. Orders will be ready to be picked up on Saturday, May 8th from 8am to 5pm. If you haven’t already received a confirmation email, please contact us.

Our online sale is now closed. However, we still have lots of plants. Join us for our in-person sale at 50 Talent Avenue next weekend, Saturday, May 15th from 9:00am to 6:00pm. In addition to tomatoes, we will have a variety of peppers, eggplants, tomatillos, annuals, perennials and more.

The Talent Garden Club is an organization that promotes environmentally healthy practices, that educates about best gardening practices, that encourages the formation of pollinator gardens, and that finances scholarships for students pursuing horticulture related majors.We have a plant sale every May in order raise funds for scholarships and community garden projects. (Thank you to Rogue Valley Compost for helping to make this plant sale possible!) Through our fundraising efforts, we have given out scholarships to Phoenix High School seniors, supported the creation of community pollinator gardens in Talent, and given grants to organizations like Access community garden, Rogue Farm Corps, and the Farm to School program.

This year, in order to continue raising funds for scholarships and other community projects, we will have both an in-person and on-line plant sale . On-line ordering will be open from April 26 – May 7 and orders can be picked up on May 8. You should receive an e-mail confirming your order and giving pick-up details within 24 hours of placing your order. Our in-person sale with be the weekend of May 15 and more details will be posted about the event as it gets closer.

Click here to enter the sale.

Seed Exchange for February 13 & 14 Canceled
Unfortunately, we are going to have to reschedule our seed exchange. The forecast for this weekend is rain and more rain with temps in the 40s. We will reschedule as soon as we have a weekend with good weather.

Our next Talent Garden Club meeting will be on Zoom. We will meet on Saturday, January 2, from 10am to 12pm. In order to receive the Zoom invite and business meeting information, please contact us on Facebook or through email.

We will begin the meeting with announcements, some discussion and a short video on “5 Winter Tasks for a Productive Vegetable Garden.” We’ll then move into the business portion of the meeting in which we’ll cover the following topics

• Future 2021 Meetings
• Financial Report
• May Plant Sale
• Scholarships and support for various organizations in 2021
• Helping with the recovery and replanting of the Greenway

Thank you to everyone who made our 2020 plant sale a resounding success through purchases and/or donations. Our plant sale is now at an end as we’ve sold almost every single plants that we had. If you missed out on the sale, please stay tuned for our 2021 sale next May. Thank you again and Happy Growing!

The Talent Garden Club is having a no-contact sidewalk sale at 55 Talent Avenue. It will start Saturday, May 2nd and end Monday, May 3rd. Plants will be available for sale from dawn to dusk. Please spread the word and come on by any time.

Our gardeners have started too many varieties of plants to easily post them all on-line (succulents, grasses, flowers, trees, and more), so were making them available for in-person selection. We will have tables of plants set up for people to browse and a container to collect money.

Parking is available across the street at 50 Talent Avenue. If you come, please be conscious of the need to practice social distancing and wear a mask if there are others browsing. If it looks a little crowded, please come back at another time.

Note: Because of our inability to easily update our plant lists over the weekend, we will not be taking on-line orders for the next two days.

The Talent Garden Club is an organization that promotes environmentally healthy practices, that educates about best gardening practices, that encourages the formation of pollinator gardens, and that finances scholarships for students pursuing horticulture related majors.

We have a plant sale every May in order raise funds for scholarships and community garden projects. In the past year, we have given out three scholarships to Phoenix High School seniors; supported the creation of community pollinator gardens in Talent at the post office, the police station and the historical society; and given grants to Access community garden, Rogue Farm Corps, and the Farm to School program.

This year in order to continue raising funds for these projects, we’ve moved our plant sale on-line. Thank you to Rogue Valley Compost for helping to make this plant sale possible!

Click here to enter the sale.

This Friday, May 31, is the first TAG (Talent Artisans and Growers) market of the year and the Talent Garden Club will have a booth to sell left over plant starts, hanging baskets, and more. We will be setting up from 4:00 to 5:00 and the market starts at 5:15/5:30. If you are able to help with one of the following, please send me an email:    

1. Truck to help transport plants, tables, canopy etc. (It would be great if we could get 2 or 3 vehicles)

2. Set up from 4:00 to 5:00 (we need at least 4 people)    

3. Booth shifts. We need one or two people for each time (I think that Gerlinde plans to be there the whole time to cashier)            

Shift 1: 5:30 – 6:30    

Shift 2: 6:30 – 7:30    

Shift 3: 7:30 – 8:30     

4. Clean Up from 8:30 to 9:00 (we need at least 4 people and a couple trucks for transport)

Also, if you have cut flowers or extra produce like rhubarb, radishes, peas, lettuce etc. that you wouldn’t mind having us sell, please let me know. I’m available for harvest/pick-up Thursday evening or you can just bring them to the TAG market before 5:15.

Also, Saturday, June 1, is our June tour of Garden Club Member gardens and our annual summer potluck.

Thank you,

Chrissy

This Saturday we will be touring the gardens of some of our very own members. Afterward we will have a potluck at Kamerin Springs Park (1014 Kamerin Springs Dr, Talent, OR 97540) next to Gerlinde’s house. 

Garden Tour Schedule:

9:15 Anyone who wants to carpool meets at the Ray’s parking lot

9:30 – 10:00  Tour Tia’s Garden at 225 Wintersage Circle

10:15-10:45 Tour Terri’s Garden at 125 N 1st St  

11:00-11:30 Tour Claire’s Garden at 214 N 2nd

11:45-12:15 Tour Historical Society Pollinator Garden at 105 N Market Street

12:30-1:30 Lunch at Kamerin Springs Park next to Gerlinde’s house (1013 Lithia Way)

I look forward to seeing you all Saturday and enjoying some great food together.

Chrissy

PS – Don’t forget that we are planning on touring Sanctuary One in June. We are tentatively planning the tour for Saturday, June 15. However, once the tour is confirmed I’ll be sending out more information.