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Re: Blossom-end rot

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Check the archives and you will find comments from people who have been
growing tomatoes in the same place for 20 - 30 years.  Apparently tomatoes
need something in the soil, that is put there by the plant, that helps them
along.  And if your soil is below a pH of 6.0 you should add limestone -
calcium, and it will improve soil pH, make it more basic.

John Ross

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> From: Kim Kiernan <kkiernan@home.com>
> To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
> Subject: Re: Blossom-end rot
> Date: Monday, August 02, 1999 3:25 PM
> 
> Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> 
> actually, according to the folks at our wonderful nursery here (they
> specialize in organic gardening), blossom end rot (the kind usually from
> calcium deficiency or irregular watering) is also caused by growing
> tomatoes in the same location year after year.  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.  I have been growing 1 tomato in a place that's
> never had tomatoes before, getting the same water & native soil, and I
> don't seem to have any BER problems there.  Interesting to think about,
> as I've never heard this anywhere else before.  Any thoughts?
> Kim, zone 9b, socal
> 
> The Rosses wrote:
> > 
> > Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> > 
> > Very funny!!!  Blossom end rot is not a disease, usually does not cause
any
> > rot, and does not harm eating the fruit.  Bottom - or wherever rot, is
a
> > very different condition and does not result in a fruit that I would
eat.
> > But, Margaret, each to their own.  The post to which I was responding
used
> > both terms.  Too bad it was not noted.  English used to be a language
of
> > communication - but no more?
> > 
> > ----------
> > > From: margaret lauterbach <mlaute@micron.net>
> > > To: Square Foot Gardening List <sqft@listbot.com>
> > > Subject: Re: Blossom-end rot
> > > Date: Saturday, July 31, 1999 11:35 AM
> > >
> > > Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> > >
> > > At 10:52 AM 7/31/99 -0400, you wrote:
> > > >Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
> > > >
> > > >I think that we need to distinguish between blossom-end rot and
bottom
> > end
> > > >rot.  The blossom-end rot is a circular brown or black patch at
blossom
> > end
> > > >of fruit, which, despite disease's name, does not usually rot.
> > Nonparasitic
> > > >disease...Prevent...by never allowing soil to dry out...Also avoid
> > > >irregular watering...Do not cultivate close to plants. (Reader's
Digest,
> > > >Illustrated Guide to Gardening, 1978).  I have had some bottom end
rot
> > in
> > > >which the core of the tomato may turn black, but appears to be due
to
> > the
> > > >fact that the fruit was in contact with the metal poles of the
trellis
> > or
> > > >resting on another stem.
> > > >
> > > >John Ross, Zone 4, Northern NY
> > > >
> > > A rot may occur anywhere on any plant, but this is the first I've
ever
> > > heard of a "bottom end rot." Since the blossom end is the bottom end
of a
> > > tomato, that term usually suffices to describe any bottom rot. I'm
not in
> > > favor of complicating disease names by location if it hasn't been so
> > > described in the past. Next thing you know, we'll have "mid-section
rot"
> > or
> > > "top end rot" and no doubt Ortho will come up with two different
sprays
> > to
> > > prevent same. Margaret L
> > >
> > >
> > >
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