The good part is that you had your soil tested and now you know what needs to be done to get your PH correct. The bad part is that it usually takes 4 to 6 months for the lime to make a difference. Seeding now may not be a good idea since your PH will still be too low until the lime raises the PH. You will get a lot of opinions on how to proceed. What kind of grass are you planning on growing? This will help determine how to proceed. If you have some type of weeds or grass on your yard now, you may want to wait til next year or this winter to proceed to allow the lime to kick in. By this I mean that since you have something growing now it would keep the soil from eroding while you wait for the lime to start raising the PH before you do anything further.

Thanks Bruggirl, I just went out and gave it a gallon of weak ferts with a teaspoon of epson salts in the water too.I also have the hose doing a slow drip so it gets a good soil soaking. But I'm thinking it may be spidermites....? Dont they suck the juices/sap out of the leaves of the new growth...causing them to be yellowish green? I have been routinely spraying them with Ortho Systemic but apparently they are determined to stay.So later this evening when the sun goes down,I'm going out there and I'm going to drench it with the hose and then spray it with a mixture of baby shampoo and water.I read that they dont like soap,so maybe this will help deter them. I'm going to try to make an effort every evening to go out and give 'em a good spraying with the hose too. The only thing I dont like is when I spray 'em they hang over and pout kinda like they were being abused or something. Go figure! Breezy

Bob, yes, I agree I need to leach the soil. In my research it seems that for the levels that I have it could take 3 years to get it back to normal levels. But I'm not sure that was in sand where it happens faster. Zackey, I agree. I have tried a couple of emails. I think I need to try to get someone on the phone if I can get past the menus. Vegtech, I hear you about the local extension agency. I called and they directed me to a book about growing roses. I have been studying growing roses in S. Fl. for 13 years. Not exactly what I needed.

Okay. Ruffled sock pattern. This is for the ruffle. The line in the pattern says: K1. (yfwd) twice. *K5, slip 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th sts over first st, (yfwd) twice. Question One: *YFWD(Yarn Forward) also means YO(Yarn Over). So if you havn't done that before it does mean to wrap the yarn around the needle twice. Question Two: K5. Slip 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th sts over first st. WHAT IN THE HECK DOES THAT MEAN? I have done a slip, knit, then pass the slipped stitched over the last knit and off right hand needle before, but nothing like this. What needle am I slipping these stitches from, and am I slipping them across to another needle or am I dropping them off? *This is like the slip passover BUT you are going to do 4 in a row. If you want get a marker to show where the first stitch (of the K5). I like a small scrap of a different color. Someone once told me "Don't think about what it's telling you to do, just do what it says." So K5, take S(titch)2 slip over S1, S3 slip over S1, S4 over S1, S5 over S1. Question 3: Pick up and knit stitches along the side of the heel flap. I am assuming that I insert a single DPN (as a right needle) in the edge of the flap, yarn over, and draw the yarn through to stay on the right needle even though there is no left needle involved. Is this correct? *There is a great sock demo that shows this every well. I think I have the link done right (http://www.royea.net/sockdemo1.html). Page 3 is picking up the gusset. That has been one of the best explainations I've seen on the web. I hope this has helped you some and feel free to ask anything eles if you need too. Here is a link that might be useful: Sock Demo