Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Doug Oster's Fall Gardening Secrets

Garden columnist and radio host Doug Oster will visit the Peters Township Public Library on Saturday, September 5 at 10:00 a.m. He will discuss how to put your garden to bed in the fall, preparing the garden for spring planting now, tips for planting perennials in the fall, secrets to bulb planting and more.

Oster is co-author of Grow Organic: over 250 tips and ideas for growing flowers, veggies, lawns and more. A book sale and signing will follow the program.

Doug Oster is the co-host of KDKA radio’s Sunday morning program The Organic Gardeners and is the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Backyard Gardener. His column is distributed regionally by the Associated Press and nationally by Scripps Howard News Service. He also works as writer, producer and on air talent for WQED-TV's OnQ program contributing stories related to gardening. Doug fills the same role at WYEP-FM's Allegheny Front program. He appears on KDKA-TV's Pittsburgh Today during their gardening segments. Doug's "Grow Your Own" gardening/cooking column is syndicated nationally through the Los Angeles Times News Service. He is also founder of Cultivating Success, a garden program for adoptive and foster children.

Register for this free program at the library’s circulation desk, call 724.941.9430 or email Carrie Weaver.

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