Garden Rescue
Blossom End Rot
Every so often your parents are right. They show you up, prove you wrong and leave you remembering the good old days when you really needed their guidance. Like, remember that undercut you really wanted in 1992, and dad put his foot down and said no? Well, thanks dad, I owe you one.
This week, mom proved once again that your parents can still be right.
After picking a few ripe tomatoes for a bococcini salad the other night, I came back in the house and cried bloody murder over my blighted-ass tomatoes. I showed her the damage.
“That’s not blight,” she said.
Long pause.
“What?”
“No, that’s not blight. That’s blossom end rot.”
Blossom end rot, as it turns out, is another little problem you’ll run into with your tomatoes this time of year. It looks like a gross black spot on the bottom of your tomato (not the top). This black spot continues to grow on the fruit as the plant develops and becomes thick and leathery in texture.
Blossom end rot is usually caused by infrequent watering. The true cause of the problem › Continue reading
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