Today's yield:
We're still munching on the carrots I pulled out last week. Unfortunately I noticed that already my Early Girl tomatoes are plagued by blossom end rot. That means my Romas are sure to follow suit. Fortunately, it is fixable and preventable. Its not actually a fungus, its a vitamin deficiency. Calcium to be exact. the developing cells don't get enough of this essential vitamin, so each cell dies. This "disease" especially afflicts high yield tomatoes. As all the tomatoes grow so quickly it depletes the soil of nutrients. For this reason, tomatoes are known collectively as "heavy feeders" meaning they need alot of fertilizer.
Therefore, the fix for blossom end rot is going to be a high calcium fertilizer like fish bone meal or something similar. The developing tomatoes may still have the rotten spots, but the little guys and any new tomatoes after fertilizing will be just fine. Blossom end rot looks like this, but since it isn't a fungus you can cut that part out and still eat the tomato, it will just be ugly.
I hope your tomatoes fare better than mine so far! Happy gardening.
