Summary
Vegetable gardeners get really depressed when they look at their tomatoes and see the fruit turning black on the bottom. Many people have experienced this common problem, called blossom end rot, this year. Though it happens to some degree almost every year, the extended drought we had earlier and hot weather make a recipe for disaster on the tomatoes.
Terry Kelly, a vegetable specialist for the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, recently shared more information to county agents on blossom end rot. As I have discovered, there is more to the problem than I once thought.See the full content of this document
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Blossom End Rot Is Difficult to Control
Blossom end rot is a calcium deficiency in the tomato. There is normally plenty of calcium in the soil, and a tissue analysis would probably show t...
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