Annual Master Gardeners sale on tap Saturday

Attention, green thumbs

Spring trainee Janet Lueckenhoff selects flowers to make a planter while working in the North Jefferson City greenhouse in preparation for the Central Missouri Master Gardeners annual plant sale at the Jaycees Cole County Fairgrounds on Saturday.
Spring trainee Janet Lueckenhoff selects flowers to make a planter while working in the North Jefferson City greenhouse in preparation for the Central Missouri Master Gardeners annual plant sale at the Jaycees Cole County Fairgrounds on Saturday.

Fresh-turned garden rows and decorative containers with clean potting soil await the fragile plants that will call them home this summer.

That wait may end for some spaces after the annual Central Missouri Master Gardeners Plant Sale from 7 a.m.-noon Saturday at the Jefferson City Jaycees Fairgrounds, 1445 Fairgrounds Road.

The plant sale has been going for more than 15 years. But it expanded tremendously with ....