Tomato Blossom End-Rot: Emergency Treatment & Prevention with Lime - The Rusted Garden 2013

*Just do this ONE time and water consistently.
Blossom End-Rot turns the bottom of your tomatoes brown. It occurs because your plants can't easily utilize the calcium in the soil or their is not enough calcium in the soil for the plant. In either case I recommend adding lime in the form of a liquid slurry.

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[karlgerhardt]

I think this is the best video tutorial I've seen....ever. Short and sweet. On point. Thanks.

[fatimaargun]

thank you, informative and to the point without taking too long (taking over half the video sometimes talking about irrelevant stuff like family vacations, political positions, etc like many of the videos on youtube that could easily be made in less than half the time). Thank you for educating w relevant info without wasting people's time! :-)

[jgehbinv]

Very good information Gary! You can also take two crushed 750-1000 mg Tums tablets and add them to a gallon of water, then thoroughly soak the roots with that mixture. You can also put those crushed tablets in a gallon of water in a pump sprayer and spray directly on to the leaves of the tomato plant.

[eddietruly]

Gary I used this as a emergency effect and it worked great... lime pellets $3.00 at Walmart. .. Thank you & God bless.... I find bloom rot happen alot more in my heirlooms because there not not fooled with by us humans...lol

[Pinkshoes]

Thank you so much I was freaking out. I worked so hard this year, I over fertilized, I thought I fixed that and now I have blossom end rot happening to my plum tomatoes 😭. I will get this from Home Depot and hope it will be ok soon. Thank you so much 😊

[Bgoddess]

Hi! I just wanted to say thank you so much for sharing this treatment with the world. It was my first year growing a container garden and all seven of my tomato plants had blossom end rot. I had to use this treatment twice but we have managed to have two productive harvests thus far from the plants. Thank you!!

Garry thank you so much! I discovered blossom end rot on my Plum tomatoes some of the first fruits. I  performed your emergency treatment twice and  found that as the plant began to produce more tomatoes they were completely free of blossom end rot. What a great remedy!  Thank you again for sharing this wonderful tip!

[Hutzjohn]

Just for information purposes.... last year I had 4 containers of tomatoes...they produced had 100 to 150 tomatoes from those 4 plants...I had EXACTLY 1 tomato with blossom-end rot..(don't know why)....weekly I put 1/2 cup of Krogers skim milk in 2 gallons of water and divided the 2 gallons between 6 containers. "2 gallons of milk [$3.49 each] lasted all summer"... Keep this in your mental tool-box for future needs. This year I amended my containers with lime & gypsum now for next summer....we'll see how that works out.

[bridgetterose]

And then how often do you do this moving forward?

[pfields]

This is the best information I have seen about blossom rot. My husband is out there right now applying the slurry ! Thank you.

[MtaXHad]

Going to give it a shot tomorrow. First tomato plant I've personally grown and 3/6 of them have this. Thank you!

[freedomthriving]

Quick simple and nothing fancy. That was perfect. Thanks

[Theresasflowershop]

I’m a new gardener and this just started happening with my tomatoes. Thank you for the help!!!

[nanaofbabies]

One treatment was a lifesaver for my tomatoes. Thank you SO much!

[ashleybolton]

How funny that as I googled how to treat/prevent blossom end rot, this video is the one that popped up. The voice was so familiar, then I clicked on the youtube channel, and it’s Gary!!! So good to “see” you! I started gardening last year, and tomatoes are giving me a tough time this year. Lime slurries coming right up!!!

[THERUSTEDGARDEN]

You can. However it takes some time for the eggshells to give up their calcium. They are good to use at planting. In an emergency I like the lime because the root systems can pick it up quicker.

[bookwormtami]

Thank you! This worked amazingly and immediately. You saved my beautiful tomatoes!

[novten]

Great vid. I added pulverized lime to my soil in the beginning of the season this year and no end rot as of yet - fingers crossed. Last year, I had a big problem with end rot. So the lime definitely seems to be working for me this year.

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