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," ...

Never heard of "blossom end rot" until after we had moved to Missouri, but I have now. Our first garden here in Scott City was at the house we lived in on Helene Street. We had a fair-sized garden ...

There you are, enjoying a lovely stroll through your vegetable garden when something out of the ordinary catches your eye. You head over to the tomato plants that you’ve been anxiously waiting to ...

There's nothing more frustrating for a gardener than spotting blossom end rot ruining the fruits of their labor — literally. It usually starts as a tiny mark near the blossom end of a green fruit, ...

Other than the pandemic, it seems that the main topic of discussion among the local populace has been about the persistent wet weather through July. It’s a topic that has been discussed ad nauseam, ...

One of the current issues plaguing the home gardener right now is blossom-end rot on tomatoes. Often mistaken for a disease, it is primarily a physiological problem. No bacteria or pest causes blossom ...