This week's Dirt Doctor podcast with Howard Garrett has more answers to questions sent in by listeners and readers of the website. We are into spring planting and Howard Garrett offers tips about planting from seed, varieties to try, and organic products to use - and avoid. And much more!

Show Notes:
Fences - metal, wood, cedar posts
Book - Lawn Care (by Howard Garrett)
Coffee - mushroom variety

Q&A:
Watch plants for pests (get them early)
Plumeria - move out in stages
Percentages of soil amendments in beds (rates by square feet)
Maples native vs hybrid
Shantung maple, Japanese maple
Alfalfa pellets as organic fertilizer (look at percentage in mix)
Turf treatment
Agralawn crabgrass killer
Compost as fertilizer
Avoid contaminated compost (picloram, chlopyralid)
Leaf management
Making own Garrett Juice - recipes
General weed control, rescue grass

Three of the advertisers on the Dirt Doctor site and podcast are Crazy Water, Douglass King Seed, and Doctor Ohhira's probiotics.

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Douglass King Seeds, Seed Specialist Since 1912, developer of Habiturf Native Lawn Mix, https://www.dkseeds.com/

Dr. Ohhira probiotics have been part of the Garrett family health regimen for years. https://drohhiraprobiotics.com/dr-ohhira-probiotics/

Howard Garrett's weekly video podcast touches on many subjects and is supported by the library and content on his Dirt Doctor website and in his many gardening and landscaping books. This week signs of spring are all around (in the questions listeners sent in) and his art will be on display on Valentine's Day in a Deep Ellum art gallery.
https://www.dirtdoctor.com

Tea - may help with cedar fever
SPCA dog
Book Recommendation: The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka
https://bit.ly/4aBSq85
Ants on trees
When to mulch leaves in compost
Shredded tree trimmings
When to move citrus trees outside in spring
Hoja santa from seed
Crape myrtle
Ginkgo
Palms
Shade cloth
In Howard's Garden (pruning)
Podomatic - former podcasts

This is a short audio version of the video podcast that demonstrates the exercise routine that Howard Garrett does regularly. There are clues to his exercises in the discussion, but this is a podcast you'll appreciate more if you view it.

Go to the Dirt Doctor home page and click on the YouTube button for this and all of the video podcasts. The direct link to the video of this podcast is at https://youtu.be/3_uCIbW_z8s.