Spring Garden Market and Educational Fair

Thanks for making the 2023 Spring Garden Market a success!

Photo by Thomas Johnson

Your support helps make our programs possible. And, you get tomatoes! (...or squash, peppers, eggplant, native plants, ...)

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If you want details for a plant you bought at the sale, you can look it up in the plant library.

Saturday, April 15, 2023
9:00am – 1:00pm

2495 South Delaware Street
Redwood Hall
San Mateo County Event Center
San Mateo, CA (map)

Free Admission • Free Parking • Cash or Check Only

Only $5 each (most plants)

Funds raised will be used to support future training and workshops that will be free to the public.

Drop by tables for demonstrations, exhibits and answers to your questions

Soil for Veggies
Harvest for Neighbors
Tomatoes
Integrated Pest Management/Plant Diagnostics
Roses
Herbs
Native Plants
UC Master Gardeners Information

These partners will be at the fair as well:

Lyngso
Harvest for Neighbors/ Each Green Corner
Master Food Preservers
San Mateo Office of Sustainability
San Mateo Event Center

Additional sale items

Beyond edibles: we will have a selection of pollinator plants, native plants, succulents and gardening books for sale.

Tired of tasteless tomatoes and other vegetables that just won’t thrive in your area? The UC Master Gardeners of San Mateo and San Francisco Counties are holding their Spring Garden Market and Educational Fair in Redwood Hall at the San Mateo County Event Center.

Come buy plants for your summer garden: tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, squash, herbs, succulents, pollinators, and more. Varieties have been selected just for the San Francisco and Peninsula climate zones, and grown by local UC Master Gardeners.

Plus: free demonstrations and workshops, educational tables and displays, and Master Gardeners available to answer any questions.

Spring Garden Market - Spring Edibles Plant Library

Learn about and plan varieties to buy by visiting the Spring Garden Market and Spring Edibles Plant Library.

Live Presentation Schedule

9:30-9:45: Tomatoes (Carol O’Donnell)

9:55-10:10: Herbs (Kathy Fleming/Cindi Morris)

10:20-10:35: Caring for Soil in Raised Beds Season to Season (Nick Landolfi)

10:45-11:00: Tips for Growing Edibles in Your Garden Soil (Terry Lyngso)

11:10-11:25: Harvest for Neighbors, Importance of Food Banks Interview (Judith Dean With Susan Houston)

11:35-11:50: Gophers (Janice Moody)

12:00-12:15: Pests on Edibles (Jonathan Propp)