I spoke with the Master Gardner helpline and she suggested sulfur to acidify the soil. I think it will take awhile to see results from that though. She also recommended cottonseed meal. I called the company I purchased the soil from today. They were very apologetic and are checking their sources of manure to see if they have changed anything (i.e. putting lime out in the stalls). He offered to purchase and come to my house to apply blood meal or fish emulsion, which they believe will help for now. Anyone have any objections/opinions to blood meal in this situation? If I'm understanding what I've read, blood meal would be good for both iron and nitrogen deficiency.

Thank you both. Before either of you replied, I got antsy, and did a couple of different things. Not sure exactly what I did, but anyway, I now have IE10 and it works just fine. Previously the link by owbist wouldn't play, but now will play just fine. Possibly that was just a problem with my slow ISP that oftentimes is no faster than my old dial up service was. Now I have 'other' small situations, but will have to come back and work on them sometime later. Again, thank you both. Sue

Its a very nice upgrade in my opinion. Certainly more secure than IE7. Some nice new features. If you want, its a very easy uninstall and reverts back to your old ie7 same as it was. IE8 installed and did keep all my Ie7 settings and favorite bookmarks and all. A few things are slightly different so do take the tour if you install it. Some people do have problems installing or running it. It had an issue with too many items in the restricted sites list that Spybot Search and Destroy 'Immuninize feature adds there. Clearing those before install was the main fix for me.

I updated it to version 8.5 - same problem. I cured it before by replacing a corrupted dll file and got the replacement from this site: http://www.dll-files.com/ but don't know which file it is. Maybe replace em all? :-) The shading & color function for the charts controls the color of the data series not the chart background. And the problem is intermittent so anyway I agree my simple problem is beyond works 8.0 now 8.5. Open Office would be like using the Queen Mary when a rowboat would do. Works 8 is fearsome enough for my elimentary needs. But I'll probly bite this bullet and get it. By now I coulda done the whole thing by hand 8 times over. Maybe I'll jsut do the graphs by hand anyway. There's the advantage that you can pencil in notes etc.