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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

From: "Leslie" <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>
> Calcium deficiency? Possibly caused by salty soil (which I'm pretty sure is 
> an issue here. I know what to do for the salty conditions next year.. but 
> for calcium.......... can I just beg everyone here to save me eggs shells, 
> grind them up and >sprinkle that is the soil near tomato plants?

Tomatoes love eggshells. I put  mine aside specially just for the tomatoes. 
Tomatoes also like salt, which may be part of the reason they do so well for 
you (I add kelp meal and epsom salt to my 'secret tomato formula'). I was 
just reading about Jersey tomatoes and what made them so great back in the 
day. Part of it was the varieties, but part was putting salt hay and kelp on 
them, which they don't do anymore. Rutgers U. is doing experiments to see 
what made that great 'Jersey tomato' taste. I grew up there, and nothing 
beat a good Jersey tomato.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA