For Healthier Tomato Plants, Save Your Eggshells Recipe
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Picking a fat, flavorful tomato off the vine in your own garden is one of life's great pleasures. I love to hold them in my hands, feeling the warmth from the sun, sniffing their aromatic smell and feeling their slight stickiness on my skin before I take a bite.
But it's deeply discouraging when the fruits you've pampered for months and are eagerly anticipating eating begin to turn brown and rot from their tips upwards. It's called blossom end rot and is a common and easily prevented tomato ailment.
Blossom end rot is caused by a calcium deficiency which is good news, because, unlike many other tomato woes, you can avoid it.
One very simple way to protect your plants is to place a bit of crushed up eggshell in the hole…
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