2012 Fall Gardening Festival

People will be able to learn many gardening tips at the 2012 Fall Gardening Festival, sponsored by Oregon State University Extension Service - Lane County Master Gardener Association. The festival is scheduled for Saturday, September 22, 2012 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., at the Willamalane Adult Activity Center, 215 W. C Street, Springfield.

Many activities are planned:

* Garden related vendor booths

* Ask-a-Master Gardener booth

* Children’s activities

* Locally created garden art and used book sale

* Apple press demonstration

* Tomato taste off, your vote needed

* Bake sale

Talks on a variety of gardening topics

10:30 am-11:30 am

· Making low cost greenhouses and cloches

· Raising chickens in your backyard

· Growing beautiful bulbs

12:30 pm-1:30 pm

· Making herbal lotions and lip gloss

· Bokashi composting

·  Creative container gardening

2 pm-3 pm

· Converting lawns to vegetable gardens

· Growing great garlic

· Growing mushrooms at home

For more information call the OSU Extension Service Master Gardener hotline at 541-344-5859 or visit: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/lane/gardens. Master Gardeners are on duty at the OSU Extension Service office located at 783 Grant Street, Eugene, Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-5 p.m.

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