Blossom end rot is a destructive disease affecting mainly tomatoes and peppers, but can damage other fruiting crops such as eggplant, watermelon and summer squash. It is a perennial problem, meaning ...

What Does Blossom-End Rot Look Like? Several other tomato diseases might be confused for blossom-end rot, but none have the exact same set of characteristics. "Blossom-end rot is pretty distinctive," ...

Blossom-end rot is a disorder that results in the decay of tomato fruits on their blossom end. Photo provided I recently received an email from Frank Koziol with some pictures of tomatoes from his ...

Q. I was wondering if you had any solutions for tomato rot. I throw my grass clippings on the soil to keep the weeds out. Does that have anything to do with it? – RM, Tinley Park, Illinois. A. Blossom ...

Eager tomato-growers having lovingly nurtured seed to fruit have anxiously awaiting their first ripe gem. But, alas, a black leathery spot appears at the base of the fruit. Blossom-end rot is ...

Our recent cycles of cool, wet weather followed by warm, dry conditions can be a real challenge to home gardeners. And as our tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables start to come on, another problem ...

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.

Root and foliar spray abscisic acid applications were studied to determine how ABA affects the incidence of blossom-end rot in distal tissue of tomato fruit. A combination of spray and root ABA ...

Blossom-end rot is a fruit disorder that affects members of the nightshade family, especially tomatoes, eggplants and peppers. Although this nasty ailment looks like an infection or disease, it’s ...

The post Blossom End Rot in Squash: Why it Happens and How to Fix It is by Jerad Bryant and appeared first on Epic Gardening, the best urban gardening, hydroponic gardening, and aquaponic gardening ...

There's nothing more frustrating for a gardener than spotting blossom end rot ruining the fruits of their labor — literally. It usually starts as a tiny mark near the blossom end of a green fruit, ...

Finally, I’m not writing about pests this week, but I am writing about a different plant problem in my garden. I’ve been waiting to harvest zucchinis for weeks. Everyone knows that zucchinis grow ...