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. 

Crazy Water is the only mineral water bottled in Texas. Rich with Mother Nature-infused minerals, which are more readily absorbed by your body. https://drinkcrazywater.com/ 

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/