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Agriculture class digging in for annual plant sale

The Peter Skene Ogden Secondary School agriculture 11/12 students will hold their annual plant sale on June 2

Good deals are growing at the Peter Skene Ogden Secondary School (PSO) greenhouse.

The agriculture 11/12 students have spent the current semester nurturing thousands of bedding plants, and on June 2, they will all be sold at their annual plant sale.

It takes place at the PSO greenhouse from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and teacher Claudia Morgenthaler says doors will not open to the public before 9 a.m.

"There will be absolutely no early-birds. We need the morning to set up."

She wants people to note it is a one-day sale this year. In previous years, the sale ran two days, beginning on the Friday, but the combination of school bus traffic and general congestion was an issue.

The sale will feature more hanging baskets than in the past and eight varieties of tomatoes, says Morgenthaler. She adds there's a great variety of herbs and many new plants they're trying for the first time.

Morgenthaler invites shoppers to look at the garden patch beside the greenhouse, which supplies vegetables for the school's Building a Bistro breakfast and lunch program.