Howard Garrett, Dirt Doctor

08/24/2026

Beware of GUTTING 🚑🚨🌳🚒‼️ one of the great pruning errors.

08/23/2026

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08/22/2026

Dirt Doctor This Week - Cicada Killers Beetles and Fertilizer

The August 22, 2026, Dirt Doctor Podcast with Howard Garrett answering listener questions regarding insects, weeds, the condition of plants in the extreme heat of summer, and fertilizing.

Podcast highlights:

Cicada Killer wasp
Soap damage to tree foliage
Black beetles
Flea beetle
Harlequin beetle
Black spotted cucumber beetle
Texas Bug Book
How often to water in heat
Chinese pistache looking bad
Fruit tree gummosis
Grub worms
Azaleas not blooming
Fertilizer
Mulch - weeds
Spurge

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08/19/2026

08/18/2026

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08/18/2026

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08/16/2026

The August 15, 2026, Dirt Doctor Podcast with Howard Garrett answering listener questions and discussing photos sent in to illustrate the problems they asked about. The site is being adjusted so photos can be added to the Ask Howard page. A big question - how to successfully transplant trees and shrubs in high summer plus a look at sucking insect pests such as aphids and scale. After a few teasers through the podcast it concludes with a short slideshow from the trip the Garrett family made to the Galapagos Islands some years ago.

Podcast highlights:

Tea recommendation
Speaking Event in August
SPCA
Successful transplanting in summer
White scale and sooty mold
Sick Tree TreatmentP
organic preemergent - corn gluten meal
Preemergent date for turf
Neem shelf-life (AzaSol)
Spinosad
oak wilt
poison ivy/ 20% vinegar
mealy bugs
mound drench
Mealybug destroyer
Galapagos trip slideshow

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08/14/2026

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08/10/2026

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08/09/2026

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Read The Other Coast—a comic strip by creator Adrian Raeside—for today, August 9, 2026, and check out other great comics, too!