My first tomato from my great Topsy Turvy!
So pretty on the top....
So pretty on the top....
All rotten and nasty on the bottom. Blah.Not really sure what happened,
but the next tomato looked like this too.
2nd tomato and the one Lincoln decided to pick and take a bite of.He didn't like it so much! ;)
Haha.
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A friend of mine had that happen to a few of her tomatoe plants last summer and it happened to one of mine this summer. She said it has something to do with the watering, I'm not sure, mine all got watered the same as far as I can tell.
Ok, I just googled it. The problem is irregular watering or not enough calcium in the soil.
Good to know! Thanks Kelly!
I water it like 2-3 times a day because the topsy turvy dries out so fast. But it's nice to have for apartment living!
Some of our tomatoes do the same thing. We do something a little weird to add calcium to the plants. Rodney smashes up tums and sprinkles them around the base of the plant. Seems to work well. I think he found the idea online.
Weird. I was actually thinking about buying one of those! Good to know of what I can do to prevent the same thing from happening! One of the tomatoes kind of looked like an onion on the inside. Crazy!
Found you blog by clicking on "next blog" and must tell you that I had a similar problem one year and that winter collected egg shells in the fridge. Crack an egg, shell into jar, peel a cooked egg, shell into jar, etc. In the spring, as I was planting my tomatoes, I crushed the shells and mixed into the soil. No more problem!
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