Re: Tomatoes! blossom end rot

You can get ground oyster shell at a feed store. Cheap.

On Jul 12, 2007, at 9:20 PM, Theresa W wrote:
I don't eat eggs very much, so I think I'll need to go buy some calcium. But thanks for the info. 

Theresa

Pam Evans wrote:
Theresa, I always save my eggshells, let them dry and grind them up. I mix them into the ground when I plant peppers and tomatoes and top dress w/ crushed eggshell once a month thereafter. No more blossom end rot. Quit eating and growing tomatoes about 5 years ago (horrendous heartburn) but it 
always worked.
On 7/12/07, Jesse Bell <silverhawk@flash.net> wrote:
NOW...if I can just manage to harvest a tomato!!! I have some small ones growing from the baskets, but with the overcast weather we have had for 
over a MONTH now, they don't get the sunshine they need. Still got my
fingers crossed though. I LOVE the fact that the cutworms cannot get
them. I hate to kill those because they become luna moths and I think
they are beautiful - this way it's a win/win situation (so far).



Lynda Young <lyoung@grindertaber.com> wrote:
That's interesting, Jesse. I, too, have miserable luck with tomatoes and have been wondering if those planters are worth the investment. I might 
have to give them a try. Thanks for the testimonial.

Lynda
Zone 7 West TN

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Subject: Re: [CHAT] Tomatoes!
O.K. - my 2 cents worth and experiment with tomatoes this year. I grew the BEST tomatoes when I lived in Kansas City, and since then, I cannot 
seem to grow them for many reasons (Texas - too hot, too many
grasshoppers that loved them, Oklahoma - those tomato worms either eat them to the ground in one day while I'm at work (grrrrr) or the weather 
is so crazy, they rot or dry up. SO - this year I bought two of those
"hang-upside-down" planters from Gardeners Supply. I ordered the special 
dirt too. They hang on my back porch where the rain won't soak them
(this year that has been a blessing), I can control the water they get, and they get plenty of sunshine, but shade too. So far - the cut worms have not been able to find them either. Haven't seen any spider webs on 
them. My other tomatoes are in large pots and have either rotted from
too much rain, or the cut worms got them, OR the blossom end rot has
them. So far, my hand-upside-down planters are the best ones so far.


Here is the link for the planter:
http://www.gardeners.com/Topsy-Turvy-Vegetable-Planter/default/ StandardCatal 
og.PotsPlanters_HangingPlanters.36-450.cpd


Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:
I grow several varieties of cherry tomatoes in pots in my breezeway,
and they all do much better than those in the regular garden - either
the small ones or the standard size. The cherries are beginning to
ripen and are so heavily loaded with fruit that some branches are
breaking - helped by the squirrels that climb into the pots to get
up to the bird-feeder. They do take a lot of water - sometimes
twice a day in really hot weather - but I have grown them this way
for years.
The standard size in my garden are just beginning to set fruit. I
never expect to have ripe tomatoes before the first of August, but
the very cool nights earlier this summer - it was 41 degrees on
July 2 - inhibited the setting of fruit. Even the local farm market
does not have ripe tomatoes yet this summer.
Auralie

In a message dated 07/12/2007 11:08:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
tchessie1@sbcglobal.net writes:

Thanks Patricia- I think that is may be impossible to keep a tomato
plant evenly waters in a pot here. On the 4th of July it was 110,
yesterday we had the oddest weather and it was only 87 and cloudy. So, 
I'll try adding some calcium to the soil and hope for the best. It is
doesn't work, then oh well. I have 5 other plants in the garden with no 
problems. I'll just know not to plant in a pot int he future.
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Heat Zone 10
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