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Gardening

Mr.Bill

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9. If you mean your tomatoes are black on the bottom

Reply to OhNo-Really (Reply #4)

Tue Aug 4, 2020, 05:04 PM

Aug 2020

that is due to a lack of calcium in the soil. Cheapest and easiest way to fix this for next year is to save up your egg shells. Put them in the blender with some water and pour it into the soil where you plant tomatoes.

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Anyone else having problems with peppers this year? [View all] happybird Aug 2020 OP

My peppers (and tomatoes) are doing great. Squash - not so much Siwsan Aug 2020 #1

My tomatoes are doing great, too! happybird Aug 2020 #6

high temps impact pollination of some peppers and large tomatoes NRaleighLiberal Aug 2020 #2

Do you have advice for when to pick Purple Cherokee? happybird Aug 2020 #8

Any large heirloom type tomatoes are most safely picked half NRaleighLiberal Aug 2020 #13

Thank you! n/t happybird Aug 2020 #14

i grow sweet banana peppers in buckets questionseverything Aug 2020 #3

The plants have hardly grown but making peppers OhNo-Really Aug 2020 #4

If you mean your tomatoes are black on the bottom Mr.Bill Aug 2020 #9

I had a few early tomatoes end rot, but that seems to be over happybird Aug 2020 #10

Mine are growing (a type of jalapeno called "coolapeno") BusyBeingBest Aug 2020 #5

Not at all brokephibroke Aug 2020 #7

Sounds like a pollination problem Major Nikon Aug 2020 #11

I thought it was a matter of not having murielm99 Aug 2020 #12

I've got more peppers than usual. As a rule, I'm in your boat and muttering that I'll never grow Vinca Aug 2020 #15

Mine seem fine spinbaby Aug 2020 #16

Well, my pepper problem has been solved by deer happybird Aug 2020 #17