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Re: Blossom-end rot

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<< I have been growing
 >tomatoes in the same spot for 6 years because I don't have anywhere else
 >to grow them.  They said that this is the reason why I can't get rid of
 >the problem, even though I never used to have this problem like this
 >before.  It seems to get worse every year.  They said that the only way
 >I can get rid of this problem is to replace the soil in the bed or  grow
 >them somewhere else.  >>

What types of tomatoes are you growing?????  

This year I've got some tomatoes growing in locations that have had tomatoes 
before, and also tomatoes growing in "virgin" soil.  I have Blossom End Rot 
(BER) in both locations, on paste type tomatoes.  Paste type tomaotes, Roma, 
LaRossa, SanMarzano, to name a few, are the types usually suseptible to BER.  
I did have a couple of bad tomatoes on one beef steak type plant, but that 
cleared up a few weeks ago.  I've also got BER on some, but not all of my 
peppers.  

I'm attributing my BER to the extreme weather conditions.  I have my garden 
mulched with two inches of dry grass clippings and I was watering my garden 
twice a week.  I stepped it up to three times a week after my plants were 
wilty in the morning, before the heat of the day.

Just my $.02 worth,

Denese
(near Cincinnati, zone 6a) where it was 103 on Friday with a heat index of 
118.


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