Gardeners, rejoice! It’s time to plan your spring plant haul. Join us for the 2025 Wasatch Community Gardens’ Spring Plant Sale on Saturday, May 10! The sale will take place from 8:00 am - 1:00 pm. This year, we’re excited to bring the sale to the Utah State Fairpark (155 N 1000 W), making it more accessible to diverse communities across the Salt Lake Valley. A heartfelt thank you to Rowland Hall for hosting our sale for so many years, we’re incredibly grateful for their partnership and support.
Why Shop WCG's Spring Plant Sale?
We know there are plenty of local plant sales this time of year. Why shop at WCG's sale? Our sale features more than 45,000 food-growing plants raised from seed by participants of our farm-based Job Training Program serving women facing homelessness. These seedlings are grown with the utmost care at our certified organic
City Farm located at 743 W 1300 S in Glendale.
In other words, when you shop our Spring Plant Sale, you'll gift your garden with healthy plant starts while also helping us work toward our vision of a community where everyone has access to healthy, local food. The sale will also feature...
- 200+ annual vegetable varieties
- 70+ tomato varieties
- 45+ pepper varieties (ranging from sweet to hot to death peppers)
- 40 edible perennial varieties (grapes, berries, asparagus and more!)
- Snake River Seed Cooperative seeds (many stewarded at WCG's Green Phoenix Farm and regionally adapted to Utah's unique climate)
- A diverse selection of seed potatoes
- Beautiful onion, leek and shallot starts
- Herbs galore
- Flowers, grasses and native plants
- Bagged compost
- SNAP EBT accepted for all food growing plants
Event Information
Saturday, May 10 from 8 am – 1 pm
Utah State Fairpark
155 N 1000 W, Salt Lake City, UT 84116
PARKING:
Parking information and event map coming soon!
PAYMENT:
Accepted methods of payment: cash, credit, debit, check and SNAP/EBT (for food-growing plants only)
Food and beverage information will be posted as soon as it's available.
Bring an empty water bottle to refill to stay hydrated during the sale!
This will be an indoor event at the Utah State Fairpark
PETS:
Please leave your pets at home. Service animals are welcome.
ADA ACCESSIBILITY:
Wasatch Community Gardens carefully considers the needs of all market attendees and makes a sincere effort to accommodate everyone. All public spaces are wheelchair accessible. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with questions or for ADA Reasonable Accommodations.
Tips for Happy Shopping
Varieties Catalogs coming soon!
Herbs, annual flowers, sun and shade perennials, native plants, grasses, and berries and other edible perennials will also be available at the sale. Make our event your one-stop shop for your garden ambitions, and plan your shopping route with our event map.
The entry line in the early hours of the sale can appear long. Don't pass us by! Once the sale opens, the line moves quickly. Consider attending the sale during the later hours to avoid the crowd all together. We'll be serving up plants until 1 pm.
Experienced gardeners - volunteers and staff alike - will be onsite to answer your questions during your shopping experience. These garden enthusiasts are excited to answer your questions about companion planting, pests and diseases, perennials, annuals, and more!
Are your plant dreams bigger than your carrying capacity? Take advantage of our free Veggie Valet service. Our Veggie Valet volunteers will shuttle your large plant orders to a vehicle pick-up area, allowing you to bring your plant babies home with ease.
And by wagon, we mean any means of carrying your plant selections. We will provide free boxes to help shoppers carry their plants. That said, we welcome wagons, baskets, carts, strollers - whatever gets the job done!
An expanded selection of seeds and potatoes can be found at the Plant Sale! Browse multiple varieties of Snake River Seed Cooperative seeds - including WCG-stewarded varieties that were grown at our very own City Farm located at 743 W 1300 S in Glendale. All of these seeds are regionally adapted to the Intermountain West. We'll also have local Idaho potatoes on hand.
It’s easy to be (delightfully) overwhelmed by the many, many tomato varieties available at our sale. Our tomato section will be organized by category - cherries and grapes; paste, sauce and salsa; saladettes and small slicers; and medium and large slicers. Volunteers will be available at the tomato tables to help you select the tomatoes that best fit your tastes!
As you walk the sale, you'll notice that many of our plant variety signs display "tags" that speak to unique aspects of the plants. Watch for staff picks, WCG-stewarded varieties, new varieties, kids picks, container varieties and Slow Food Ark of Taste!
1.5 cubic feet bagged compost from Wild Valley Farms will be available at the sale. Snag a compost ticket at the Merch Table to purchase your compost along with the rest of your plants, and our team will load them into your vehicle for you!
Make sure to visit the merch table to upgrade your garden style with our 2025 WCG t-shirts! We'll also have totes, hats, bandanas, hoodies and more available for you to show your WCG pride. These purchases play an important role in supporting WCG programming.
When You Bring Your Plants Home
Hardening off is a process of getting seedlings used to living outdoors in sun and wind. This process is very important for seedlings grown under grow lights in order to "toughen them up." Our Director of Agricultural Operations, James Loomis, recommends modifying this process for our WCG seedlings, because they have been grown in a bright greenhouse using the sun's light rather than artificial grow lights. They are stout and strong and closer to being ready to plant than plants grown under artificial lights. Here is the process we recommend for acclimating your seedlings to your garden.
Learn how to care for your plant babies once you bring them home! Visit our Resources page on our website for video tutorials featuring Spring Plant Sale-relevant topics such as onion planting, potato planting, tomato trenching and seedling care.
We're offering workshops all season long to help you grow your healthiest, most productive plants yet. From tomato caging to composting to pest management, our workshops run the gamut of veggie gardening interests and abilities. Register for an upcoming workshop today.
Become a Pal of the Plant Sale (PoPS)
Our Spring Plant Sale is one of our longest standing signature events that brings our community together for access to locally grown plants and to support our mission to empower people to grow and eat healthy, organic, local food. The 2025 Spring Plant Sale is on Saturday, May 10, and we offer early access to shopping the sale the night before. Our most enthusiastic shoppers at WCG's Spring Plant Sale - those who spent $150 or more at the previous year's Spring Plant Sale - and donors who make a one-time gift of $150 or more or a "perennial" monthly gift of $10 or more, are our Pals of the Plant Sale, or PoPS! If you do not already fall into this category we invite you to join PoPS by making a donation today.
Become a Pal of the Plant Sale
Thank You To Our Sponsors
