First-time ‘panic’ gardeners flood Utah nurseries during coronavirus pandemic

Foot-tall tomato stalks and stringy onion stems filled cardboard boxes at Wasatch Community Gardens on Saturday morning, waiting for Utah gardeners to pick them up.A last name is scribbled on the side of each box in black marker, matching the plants to a waiting owner in a line of cars outside of the garden at 100 South in downtown Salt Lake City.This is the first time in the community garden’s three-decade history that its patrons ordered online and relied on garden staff to pick the perf