Spent the day harvesting the last of my green beans and Sun Gold cherry tomatoes before I pulled the tired plants from my beds. I also picked the ripe tomatoes from my other varietals (Brandywine, Early Girl, Roma, Cherokee Purple, and San Marzano) but left the still healthy plants in the garden so the sun could ripen the heavy hanging green tomatoes.
I have always rotated the crops in my planting beds, but this year for the first time, some of my tomatoes had blossom end rot. A soft, rotten patch on the “blossom” end of the tomato, which stops the growth and ruins the fruit, depicts blossom end rot. It was on many tomatoes on both the Early Girl and San Marzano plants, but not on my other varietals.
After some research, the most common cause of blossom end rot is a calcium deficiency. I have taken soil samples and mailed them in for analysis. I am going to have to amend my soil before the next planting.
More information to follow on soil samples, results and amendments.
