How to Browse and Follow Content on The Dirt Doctor

The Dirt Doctor (dirtdoctor.com) is Howard Garrett's searchable library of natural-organic gardening, landscaping, and pest-control advice. You can browse it by topic, jump straight to featured guides like the Basic Organic Program and Sick Tree Treatment, watch or listen to the podcast and YouTube videos, and follow updates through Instagram. Everything below is organized around what the site itself presents, so you can decide where to start and how to keep up with new material.

Start with the library or the featured guides

The homepage describes the site as "a searchable index of Howard Garrett's organic gardening, landscaping, and natural pest control advice," with a Browse the library entry point. If you already know your topic, that's the fastest route. If you're new, the featured cards give you a curated path:

• Cheat Sheet — a quick-reference set of core practices, products, and remedies "you can use in the garden any day of the year."
• Basic Organic Program — described as Howard's foundation for natural land care: soil, plants, and pest management without synthetic chemicals.
• Sick Tree Treatment — the full protocol for stressed trees: diagnose decline, restore soil biology, and bring weak or ailing trees back with organic methods.
• Online Classes by Howard — courses covering organic land care, soil building, pest management, and natural certification.

A practical sequence: read the Cheat Sheet for orientation, then the Basic Organic Program for the underlying approach, then move to a specific guide like Sick Tree Treatment when you have a concrete problem.

Use the searchable library by topic

The library is the site's core reference tool, and the podcast page also offers a Browse by Topic control. That means topic browsing works in at least two places — the main library and the podcast archive — so if you're looking for everything on one subject (say, soil or pest control), check both rather than assuming one index covers the other.

Because the library is described as searchable, the intended workflow is: enter a topic, scan the returned entries, and open the ones that match your situation. The site doesn't publish a fixed category list in the material available here, so treat the search box as the primary tool and the featured guides as the fallback when you don't yet know what to search for.

Watch and listen: podcast and YouTube

The Dirt Doctor Podcast page lets you Watch or Listen, and includes a floating mini-player so you can keep browsing the site while an episode plays. Recent episodes listed on the page include:

There's also a YouTube channel. The homepage highlights a recent video — "Dirt Doctor this week w/ Howard Garrett - Sod, Vines in trees, Fall planting, & SpaceX launch" — running 32:30, with a Watch on YouTube link. The channel section notes "Latest from the channel," so the homepage is a reasonable place to check for the newest upload before going to YouTube directly.

If you prefer audio while doing other things, the mini-player is the better entry; if you want to see demonstrations, go to the video.

Follow updates on Instagram and the podcast feed

The homepage includes an Instagram Updates section, which is where shorter, more frequent posts appear. For a regular cadence, the podcast is the most structured channel — episodes are dated and archived, so you can work backward through the list. Combining the two covers both the long-form teaching (podcast, videos, library) and the day-to-day updates (Instagram).

Take the classes if you want structured learning

Online Classes by Howard leads to courses on organic land care, soil building, pest management, and natural certification. This is the path to take if browsing articles and episodes isn't enough and you want a sequenced curriculum with a certification endpoint. The site presents it as learning "directly from Howard Garrett," so expect the course material to follow the same natural-organic approach as the Basic Organic Program.

A quick way to decide where to start

• I have a specific problem (a sick tree, a pest, a soil question): search the library first; if it's a tree issue, open Sick Tree Treatment.
• I'm new to organic land care: read the Cheat Sheet, then the Basic Organic Program.
• I want ongoing content: subscribe to the podcast and check the YouTube channel; use Instagram for frequent updates.
• I want a credential or a full course: go to Online Classes.

One note on scope: the material here describes what each section contains and how to reach it, but it doesn't list prices, login requirements, or regional restrictions for the courses or any other feature. Check those pages directly before committing time or money.