Spring Plant Exchange in Southgate

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Is your green thumb getting itchy?
Scratch it May 9 during The News-Herald Newspaper’s “Dig It” spring perennial exchange.


The plant swap is set from 9 to 11 a.m. in the News-Herald parking lot, One Heritage Drive, Southgate, and it’s free of charge.


Bring your plants and trade them with other gardeners for something new to brighten your yard.


This year, the Wayne County Master Gardeners Association will offer something new — heirloom tomato and pepper plants they’ve grown from seed. The heirloom plants for sale will be in limited supply.


No other plants can be sold during the exchange, please, although you can swap to your heart’s content.


The Master Gardeners also will help answer your garden questions.


Garden clubs that want to set up tables at the event are welcome. Call “Dig It” columnist Paul Rodman, an advanced master gardener, at 1-313-719-1181 to make arrangements or learn more.


If you’re new to plant exchanges, here’s how they work. You drive in with a car trunk or truck bed full of plants, park and make trades. It’s as simple as that.


Here are some tips from Rodman:


Dig and divide your perennials. Pot them up and label each container. Old milk cartons, cottage cheese or yogurt containers make good pots for exchanges.


Seasoned traders sometimes bring pictures and descriptions of the plant they have to offer.


Make a sign on poster board or cardboard listing what you have to trade and also what new plants you may be seeking.


You can trade right out of the trunk of your car or the bed of your truck. Or bring a wagon so you can circulate among other traders.

Perennial reference books are helpful to have at exchanges.

New gardeners with nothing to trade are welcome. Gardeners are generous.

Veteran traders should come willing to share advice.

Bump

Might go...have lots of plant to get rid of...

We are going to have some great heirloom tomato plants.

Paul