Posted: Wednesday, July 7, 2010 3:12 pm

The weekly student farmers’ market will be held again Friday, July 9, from 1 until 3 p.m. in the MTSU Horticulture Center.

Sweet corn, priced at $2 for six ears or $3.50 per dozen, will be available.

Also, there will be yellow squash, crookneck squash, onions, cabbage, potatoes, zucchini, eggplant, tomatoes, cucumbers, bell peppers, Anaheim peppers, jalapeno peppers, Hungarian hot wax peppers, purple hull peas and snap beans.

Some of the first cantaloupes of the season grown by the students will be available.

Landscape plants also will be for sale, including Knockout roses, boxwoods, forsythia, monkey grass and much more. Gallon-size plants will be $3.

Proceeds from the sale are used to benefit student by helping maintain the MTSU Farm Laboratories and the students’ Plant and Soil Science Club. Daniel Messick, an agriscience major and environmental science minor from Shelbyville, serves as club president.