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<\/p>\nBy LOIS KINDLE<\/p>\n
Join the Apollo Beach Garden Club from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 14 for its traditional Spring Plant Sale, showcasing for the first time youth marketeers from the Children\u2019s Entrepreneur Market of South Tampa and the club\u2019s own Junior Gardeners Academy.<\/p>\n
The annual event will take place at the Apollo Beach Community Forest Garden, 664 Golf and Sea Blvd., Apollo Beach, and feature a \u201cMarket Garden To-Go\u201d experience. You\u2019ll find everything you need to kickstart a thriving spring garden, including new varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, spinach, bell peppers, greens and more\u2014all selected specifically for success in our area\u2019s hot, humid Zone 10A climate.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlant hunters always line up early for the most sought-after cultivars, so if you don\u2019t want to miss anything or are looking for the best plants, you need to be in it,\u201d said urban agriculture and community garden specialist Teresa Hall, the club\u2019s marketing and events director. \u201cBring a wagon and more money than you think you\u2019ll need. The inventory this time is that good.\u201d<\/p>\n
The gates open promptly at 8 a.m., and the vendors open at 7:30.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe offer only tried-and-trialed cultivars, proven to consistently produce in our area, and we have sourced some amazing, difficult to find varieties of rare tomatoes and peppers this year.<\/p>\n
Two standouts this year include a tomato resistant to Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Yellow Leaf Curl and nematodes and a cucumber that produces primarily female flowers, self-pollinates and thrives in this area\u2019s humid heat.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve been looking for ways to get your child involved in outdoor activities\u2014or you have a budding young entrepreneur at home\u2014this event is a perfect chance to explore local programs.<\/p>\n
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Urban agriculture specialist Teresa Hall, the Apollo Beach Garden Club marketing and events director, teaches the club\u2019s Junior Gardeners Academy students how to plant corn seedlings they grew at home in one of the Community Garden\u2019s beds. The plant in the foreground is perpetual spinach.<\/p>\n
The five youngsters from Tampa will be offering items they\u2019ve created and are selling themselves. Their offerings include stationery, toys and origami; hand-painted press-on nails, slime and bracelets; sensory kits and handsewn keychains; dirty sodas, cake pops and other treats; and soaps, ChapSticks, plants and hot chocolate.<\/p>\n
If your child would like to be a vendor at the event, register by 5 p.m., Feb. 13 at https:\/\/kidsmarkets.co\/event\/apollo-beach-2\/<\/a>. The cost is $25. To learn more about the Children\u2019s Entrepreneur Market, visit https:\/\/kidsmarkets.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n COURTESY PHOTOS In addition to the youth marketeers, the Apollo Beach Garden Club Spring Plant Sale will include the following adult vendors: Sam\u2019s Honey Bees, Tie Dye by Lynda, Tenacious 12 Farms LLC, Third Insight Design & Nursery, Diane\u2019s Bird Houses and Unique Shards of Glass. They\u2019ll be selling local honey from Ruskin and Lithia apiaries; farm-fresh eggs, goat\u2019s milk soap and homemade, organic pet foods; all kinds of tropical and subtropical fruit and Florida native trees; one-of-a-kind glass art; wooden bird houses; and handmade tie dye T-shirts and other apparel. Sam Goldman, the bee man, is bringing bee suits for kids to try on so their parents can snap pictures.<\/p>\n All proceeds will benefit the Apollo Beach Garden Club, a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, and its programs for the community.<\/p>\n For more information, call or text 813-310-3204.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By LOIS KINDLE Join the Apollo Beach Garden Club from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 14 for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-144694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GARDEN-CLUB-1-1000x667.jpg\")
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For the first time, young marketeers from the Children\u2019s Entrepreneur Market will join other vendors at the Apollo Beach Garden Club\u2019s traditional Spring Plant Sale on Valentine\u2019s Day, Feb. 14. The annual event will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Community Forest Garden, 664 Golf and Sea Blvd.<\/p>\n