I took your advice and split up all my questions. Thanks and thanks for the advice! All of the plants I purchased were already outside or were in an open air nursery. I'm really pretty convinced my compost was the culprit becase as soon as I got some fertilizer in them they perked right up and the yellowing, stunted growth, and dying foliage lasted for a good 3-4 weeks. I feel really dumb that it took me that long to correct. As far as shade/sun half the beds get mornign sun, all of them get midday sun and half of them get afternoon sun. Other wise they are completely shaded in the morning or afternoon. I've been trying to get a hold of some clean straw fro mulching but having a hard time finding any that is def organic and doesn't have weeds and other junk in it. I had been using shredded newspaper for my alpine strawberries but it was really messy so I trashed it. THe peas are shaded form the afternoon sun almost completely so I thought that might work but apparently not. They aren't dying, they're just not growing...or they're growing extremely slowly. Otherwise they look healthy. Idk what to do with them. I really wanted peas and don't know if I can do them as a fall crop in Nebraska. Again, thank you for your reply.

Well, it was a good try. Someone else will appreciate both of our seeds. Seeing as how she lives in West Texas, she'd need some truly full sun and drought tolerant plants. We should exchange our seeds between ourselves seeing how you are in Central Texas, too... ;-)

Gina and nanduta, Go to this thread (link below) and read some of the Frequently Asked Questions. I'm not trying to be rude. Both of you need to enable messaging so that people can message you directly and that's how we share our addresses and information. We don't want you to put your address out here for the world to see. We hope there aren't any stalkers, but we try to keep information between individuals. Gina, look on the Exchange Thread, Seed Exchange. That will have the Newbie Seed Project and you can click on the name of the thread starter. Then click on "Message" and you can ask about free seeds or seeds for postage. She does a wonderful job. Heidi http://forums2.gardenweb.com/discussions/3371179/attention-newbies-please-read?n=33

You can look at my list and see if I have anything you would like me to send.