ROBERTSDALE, Ala. — The South Baldwin Center for Technology (sbctschool.com) will hold its annual fall plant sale Thursday and Friday, Oct. 20 and 21 at the school, located next to Robertsdale Elementary School, 19200 Carolina St., off of College Street in Robertsdale.

The sale will begin at 8 a.m. and conclude at 6 p.m. both days, and Jeff Kelley, agriscience instructor at SBCT, said the sale, along with the school’s annual Spring Plant Sale, helps the students maintain and expand the program.

“The (students) grow all the plants from seed or plugs ordered from a supplier,” he said. “They do all the fertilizing, water, apply insecticide and herbicide and mix their own soil.”

Money raised from the sales allows the students to purchase their own supplies, Kelley said, which also includes plastic containers and pots. A couple of years ago, he said, money from the sales allowed the students to build a new greenhouse at the facility.

The sale includes annuals such as pansies, snapdragons, dianthus, ornamental kale and petunias at a cost of $8 per flat of 36. Mums will cost $5 per flat. Vegetables, such as cabbage, collards, lettuce, kale and broccoli, also will cost $8 per flat. Perennials will cost $4 per gallon size pot. Blueberries and thornless blackberries will cost $8 for a three-gallon pot and crape myrtles are also available for $8 each.

“We basically charge wholesale prices,” Kelley said, “but essentially we have no labor costs so we’re able to charge less.”

While the fall sale is generally smaller than the spring sale, Kelley said, additional plants aside from the ones listed will be offered at this year’s sale.

Kelley said he has four classes with about 20 to 25 students per class. Students come from Robertsdale, Foley, Gulf Shores and Fairhope high schools.

For more information about the sale, contact Kelley at jkelley@bcbe.org, or call the school at 251-947-5041.