Tomatoes are one of the most versatile and popular plants for backyard gardens, but they can be affected by a variety of unwelcome diseases, including blossom-end rot—which is inedible and ...

What Does Blossom-End Rot Look Like? Several other tomato diseases might be confused for blossom-end rot, but none have the exact same set of characteristics. "Blossom-end rot is pretty distinctive," ...

With warm-season vegetables in peak production this time of year, inquiries about blossom end rot have been abundant. Prevalent in tomatoes but also found in peppers, squash, cucumber, eggplant and ...

Do you have tomatoes with a sunken, brown leathery patch on the bottom of the fruit? If so, then you probably have blossom end rot. Blossom end rot is not a disease; it is a condition that is caused ...

Q: I am growing several kinds of tomatoes and spraying them with Daconil to prevent blossom end rot. Even so, my large tomatoes look perfect on top but the entire bottom is black. Joanne Sanders, ...

My tomatoes are getting a large dark spot on the bottom as they ripen. What causes this, and what can I do? It makes them worthless. Your tomatoes are suffering from blossom end rot, a metabolic ...

Q : Attached is a picture of wildflowers that are along ditch banks and pond levies (see reader's photo). I was wondering what they are and if they are commercially available. A : The wildflower in ...

Every summer I get phone calls as the season progresses about problems with tomatoes in people’s gardens. The most common malady is a leathery, rotten spot on the bottom of the fruit, and by the time ...

KENNEWICK -- A friend mentioned that she was putting her extra milk on the tomatoes in her garden to prevent blossom-end-rot. She was aware that blossom-end-rot, contrary to its name is not a ...

My tomato blossom-end rot is worse than past years. My theory is we had a lot of rain early, followed by a dry spell in mid-July, followed by a lot more rain. Some internet blogs suggest adding ...