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  • From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Tomatoes: bottom rot
  • Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 11:38:45 -0500


Hi everyone, I am just joining today.

Another way to help the tomatoes get even watering is to bury them deeply
when you plant them - taking all the leaves off of the stem except the top
ones, and burying up to that level. Then the mulching, and consistent
watering would help, if it is not a soil imbalance, as Dawn pointed out.
Jill
>
> Brian:
>
> Do you mean blossom-end rot? If so, then the problem has more to do with
> the tomatoes not being able to access calcium in the soil, which usually
has
> more to do with inconsistent watering. In other words, it's a cultural
> problem that can usually be controlled by even, consistent, deep watering
> (e.g., drip irrigation) and mulching





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