RE: Tomato Disappointment

Sadly, I have lots of experience with this too...lots of calcium does not
guarantee no BER. However, it probably can't hurt, especially in a pot. 

Cyndi

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From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Pam Evans
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 2:54 PM
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Tomato Disappointment

Sue, if you eat eggs - save the shells (peel the membrane out) and grind
them up and mix in the soil under the mulch around your peppers and
tomatoes.  Prevents blossom end rot.  Works great and it's free.  You can
buy liquid calcium but this is more economical!   Thus speaks the woman w/
the 269 dollar water bill.  I have to be thrifty to afford my garden.

On 7/25/06, Johnson Cyndi D Civ 95 CG/SCSRT <cyndi.johnson@edwards.af.mil>
wrote:
>
> Sadly I have lots of experience with this. You can still eat them, 
> just cut off the bad part with a good bit of extra to make sure you 
> don't get nasty stuff. One problem is that the BER is not good for the 
> tomato (obviously) and so they can start turning red a lot earlier 
> than they would normally...I'm sure there's a name for this 
> condition...but anyway you can get a red tomato that's not actually 
> ripe.
>
> Cyndi
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On 
> Behalf Of SueNY
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 5:34 PM
> To: GARDENS@LSV.UKY.EDU
> Cc: gardenchat@hort.net
> Subject: [CHAT] Tomato Disappointment
>
> I noticed that two of my Roma's are almost ripe. Unfortunately I 
> noticed they also have BER. Rats!! With the weird weather we've been 
> having this year it's been hard to get the watering even, especially 
> with the regular torrential rains we keep getting. Are tomatoes with 
> BER edible still? Can you cut off the end or is it best to just toss the
whole thing?
>
> Sue
>
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