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Outdoor gardening season might be winding down as we head into fall, but the Klamath County Library knows: a gardener’s passion is year-round. Show off your gardening knowledge in our first-ever Gardening Trivia Tournament, co-hosted by the Oregon State University Klamath Basin Research and Extension Center!
Nicole Sanchez – an assistant professor in horticulture at the extension center and a favorite recurring guest speaker at the library – will test your trivia skills in a variety of topics on Fridays at 7pm starting September 11th! Passionate trivia buffs can accumulate points over all six weeks of the event, and we’ll be giving away prizes for both each week’s top scorers and the competitors who finish the tournament with the three highest cumulative scores.
To register, head to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/klamath-gardening-trivia-tournament-tickets-118500687747 or email Denae Nemanic at dnemanic@klamathlibrary.org. This will be an individual competition held via the TriviaMaker app, which you can use on a home computer, tablet, or smart phone. (Don’t worry if you’re unfamiliar with the app – we can walk you through it.)
To get you started, we’ll even give you each week’s theme so you can brush up in advance:
- September 11th: Challenges of Gardening in the Klamath Climate
- September 18th: Growing Vegetables in Cool Climates
- September 25th: Bug Battles: Identifying Pests and Beneficial Insects
- October 2nd: Enhancing Pollinators in the Landscape
- October 9th: Drought-Tolerant Landscape Plants
- October 16th: Gardening Remix – the finale will feature a mix of the most challenging questions from all the previous categories!
A great place to start studying is Nicole Sanchez’s weekly gardening column in the Herald & News! You can find an online archive at the OSU Klamath Basin Research and Extension Center’s website: https://extension.oregonstate.edu/newsletter/130026/archive.
For more information, call the Klamath County Library at 541-882-8894.