Help Needed BADLY!!

[HeyWayne]

Hi and welcome to the vine Otakujin. Other grapes have given you lots of advice. I would add one thing, keep lots of notes of what you plant and where and how well it does. This is useful to refer back to for comparison in following years.

Enjoy your growing.

I'll second that, but my writing's terrible so I opted for a blog.

[Flummery]

As to soil testing - I didn't find it particularly useful to test my soil. Look at what grows locally. Here no-one can grow rhododendrons to save their lives. So the soil is alkaline. So I don't lime. My excuse and I'm sticking to it!

[carlseawolf]

if you manage to get this growing stuff right first time then let the rest of us know so we don't have to go through all the trial and era ourselves each year , and i can tell you as things just come into place mother nature has a way of showing you who's boss.
good luck and enjoy it !