Good advice John.
Ray, yes, of course I'm flailing about -- it's what I do best.
Perhaps I'm relatively young or just new to gardening, but I've never known what to do with the common advice to seek out the help of "your local Master Gardener..." Where are these masters? How does one contact them. I think I'm just too much of the web 2.0 generation that I fall inept when it comes to the old time ways.
In any event, your link was exactly what I needed. It has all the information I could ask for, and it's tailored for my spot here.
Thank you so much for sharing and attenuating the flailing.
-naysen