14th Annual McLean County Plant Swap & Sale

As you start to prep your garden, purchase vegetable transplants and fill your flower pots on your porch, you may want to think about attending the upcoming Plant Swap and Sale.  Saturday, April 30th will mark the 14th year of the McLean County Plant Swap and Sale.  In its first years,    organizers held this event in the parking lot behind the courthouse.  As the event has seen many changes over the past 14 years, it will be held in the 4-H Activities Building at Myer Creek Park again this year.

As of right now, there are 10 vendors that have signed up to sell various plants.  Plant enthusiast will have the opportunity to purchase the following plants from 8am-1pm: Various Annuals, Various Vegetables Slips, Strawberry Slips, Heirloom Tomatoes, Hollies, Daylilies, Iris, Various Herbs, Hostas, Black-Eyed Susans, Cannas, Verbena, Bachelor Button, Widow’s Tear, Nandina, Marigolds, Dianthus, Petunias, Geraniums, Daffodils, Belladonna Lily, Lilac Bushes and Ferns, in addition to others.

Concessions will be sold at this event and there will also be a yard sale in the adjacent pavilion.  The McLean County 4-H will be conducting kids’ activities throughout the event, and from 9am until 1pm, the public will be able to turn in any expired and/or unused prescription medicine as part of National Drug Take Back Day.  Door prizes will also be given out throughout the day.

For more information about this year’s Plant Swap and Sale or if you are interested in being a vendor, please contact the McLean County Cooperative Extension Service at (270)273-3690.  Educational programs of the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service serve all people regardless of race, color, age, sex, religion, disability or national origin.