Article: Will his garden grow?(Festivals)(Fate of Hatch Patch uncertain with its namesake leaving Eugene)

Byline: Anne Williams The Register-Guard

CORRECTION (ran 8/25/2006): Master gardener Duane Hatch left the Oregon State University/Lane County Extension Service in 1982 to take a similar post in Utah. A report on Page C1 Sunday incorrectly said he retired when he left the Lane County agency.

For 14 years, the Hatch Patch at the Lane County Fair has offered a leafy refuge in a swirl of hot asphalt and boisterous crowds, a place to catch your breath and also pick up a tip or two about growing the perfect tomato.

But the fate of the patch - a 17-by-40-foot planting bed tended long and lovingly by its namesake, master gardener Duane Hatch - is up in ...

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