Learn how to perform a home DIY soil test for alkaline or acidic soils and what you need to know about minerals in your water. For the past three years, I’ve had blossom end rot on all my tomatoes.

Tomatoes are one of the most versatile and popular plants for backyard gardens, but they can be affected by a variety of unwelcome diseases, including blossom-end rot—which is inedible and ...

When do you start treating your tomatoes bushes for blossom-end rot? Thanks. — Sonny Blossom-end rot is a common and frustrating problem in tomatoes. There are a variety of home remedies you will see ...

Countless gardeners know the joy of watching well-tended tomatoes evolve on the vine -- and the horror of discovering a brown, leathery spot on the bottom of those precious beefsteak, roma, or ...

Some of my tomatoes are showing signs of blossom end rot. What can I do to stop this? Blossom end rot is a physiological condition where tissue in the blossom end of the fruit breaks down and starts ...

Editor’s note: Throughout the growing season, Mike Hogan, OSU Extension educator for Agriculture and Natural Resources in Franklin County, will answer gardening and home landscape questions submitted ...

For the past several gardening seasons, I have had an unusually high incidence of blossom end rot on my tomato vines. I realize this is a physiological problem, but are there certain tomato hybrids ...

One of the current issues plaguing the home gardener right now is blossom-end rot on tomatoes. Often mistaken for a disease, it is primarily a physiological problem. No bacteria or pest causes blossom ...

Never heard of "blossom end rot" until after we had moved to Missouri, but I have now. Our first garden here in Scott City was at the house we lived in on Helene Street. We had a fair-sized garden ...

Tomatoes are a favorite in the home garden. Whether you have three plants next to your back door or several hundred plants you plan on sharing with neighbors, they are definitely one of the staples of ...

Blossom end rot of tomatoes is a rot that is due to a calcium deficiency in the fruit during development. The deficiency in the developing fruit can be caused by a number of things. Blossom end rot ...