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," ...

Gardening season is full steam ahead and you may have questions. For answers, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension ...

Often considered the crown jewel of the home vegetable garden, tomatoes face a number of disorders that can hinder their growth and performance and disappoint even the most dedicated grower. Insects ...

Last year I planted nearly my entire garden with San Marzano tomatoes and was lucky to escape any disease or pests. The only problem I had was powdery mildew on my pumpkins and cucumber, I wrote an ...

Countless gardeners know the joy of watching well-tended tomatoes evolve on the vine -- and the horror of discovering a brown, leathery spot on the bottom of those precious beefsteak, roma, or ...

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 ...

A dark leathery lesion on the underside of tomatoes indicates blossom end rot. It’s not a fungal condition alone, but a location of calcium deficiency that allows rot to develop. Typically, BER occurs ...

For the past several gardening seasons, I have had an unusually high incidence of blossom end rot on my tomato vines. I realize this is a physiological problem, but are there certain tomato hybrids ...

Blossom end rot of tomatoes is a rot that is due to a calcium deficiency in the fruit during development. The deficiency in the developing fruit can be caused by a number of things. Blossom end rot ...

Tomatoes are a favorite in the home garden. Whether you have three plants next to your back door or several hundred plants you plan on sharing with neighbors, they are definitely one of the staples of ...