IF YOU GOSaturday• 10- a.m. Composting Basics with Bud Hines• 11 a.m. Yoga for Gardeners with Jennie Mac Merrill from Clearspring Yoga• Noon. Tour of Crabtree Farms• 1 p.m. Backyard Fruit Gardening with John Geerling of Home FlavorsSunday• 10 a.m. Irrigation Demystified with Joel Houser• Noon. Tour of Crabtree Farms• 1 p.m. Backyard Organic Gardening with Joel Houser
Visitors to the 12th annual Spring Plant Sale & Festival at Crabtree Farms this weekend may choose from thousands of vegetables, herbs and flowers. Gardening talks, live music and local vendors will add to the offerings.
According to Crabtree officials, more than 10,000 organically grown plants, including heirloom vegetable plants, culinary herbs, berry bushes and annual flowers, will be available for purchase. The sale offers plants suitable for a variety of growing conditions, including plants for containers and shade, but all are suited to Chattanooga’s climate.
Vegetables for sale include Cherokee Purple tomato, Carmen sweet peppers and Zephyr squash.
Among the herbs are chocolate mint, Spanish Eyes lavender, lemongrass, St. John’s wort and stevia.