CHESAPEAKE, Va. — Tidewater Community College's (TCC) Horticulture program is hosting their spring plant sale at the Chesapeake campus Apr. 25 to 27 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.!
TCC has greenhouses on campus that have flowers, fresh vegetables, herbs, and hanging baskets that will all be up for sale.
"We are excited to be able to open our greenhouses to the community to showcase the crops grown by horticulture students," said Andrea Tomlin, TCC horticulture professor. "We take a lot of pride in making sure the crops are quality grade, so students know what to expect when they are performing daily monitoring, cleaning, disbudding, fertigation and integrated pest management when running a greenhouse business and providing a service to the community."
A TCC spokesperson says every plant grown by a TCC student begins as seeds, rooted cuttings or plugs.
This year, Greenhouse Production students produced 18 different types of bedding plants, six types of vegetables, seven types of herbs, a variety of houseplants and some native perennials, according to TCC.
Anyone who comes to shop can expect to find geraniums, petunias, impatiens, vinca, verbena and more but, if you're going to shop for vegetables, you can find tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, squash and zucchini.
Herbs you'll be able to find include basil, cilantro and lemon balm.
TCC says every semester horticulture students learn about crop production in the hands-on laboratories at the Chesapeake campus.
Students focus on proper techniques for planting, fertilizing and documenting the growing season for each plant, while the three greenhouses on campus protect the plants and provide the growing setting in every season.
"Our plants are given a lot of care," said Tomlin. "Students learn how to correctly space, disbud, pinch and deadhead plants as needed to produce a prolific plant that will last all season. In addition, daily watering, fertigation and disease monitoring ensure a quality crop."
The plants will cost between $1 and $25, and can be purchased with cash or check only.
