Blossom End Rot, I know thy name.
My cherry tomato plant has been slowly yielding and it has lots of green fruits teeing up for their shot at the big time.
My larger plum tomato (at least thats what I think it is, I forgot!) also has many fruits ready to ripen.
I noticed a few on this larger plant that had begun to ripen but then when I looked closer, they were evil looking.
Case in point is this shot that shows how they are rotting from the blossom end!
Brenda from Culinary Fool was able to identify what this is immediately and even provided a link on Blossom End Rot.
You might think I am beside myself in anger or despair but I am not really. There is a chance to fix this problem.
Thus I am actually thankful for this small lesson in horticultural illness, something a plump red juicy unblemished store tomato would never have taught me.
Food can feed your brain as well as your tummy.
” by David Joachim and Andrew Schloss right now and I have to say I am LOVING this book. Will post review soon!
5 comments for this entry ↓
1 Posiesplace // Aug 7, 2006 at 2:54 pm
Poor lil tommy atoes
2 elskermeg // Aug 7, 2006 at 9:57 pm
I had that same problem with my tomatoes a couple of years ago…so frustrating!
3 nika // Aug 7, 2006 at 10:33 pm
posie: indeed, these never had a chance!
elskermeg: did you lose all of the tomatoes on the plant?
4 Nicole // Aug 8, 2006 at 5:39 am
Nika, I lost most of them on that one plant that year. I think it had to do with the heat that summer and where that particular plant was sitting. It was so miserably hot that year and I probably wasn’t as good at keeping on regular watering schedule as I should have been. Luckily I had a few other plants that did well and TONS of cherry tomatoes!
5 nika // Aug 8, 2006 at 8:38 am
nicole: (got rid of your last comment, no worries re: the different accounts)
Yeah when its hot its hard to get out there to water! Same thing here, last week with the 100’s we had it was hard to get out there. I was getting faint just going to the store!.
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