Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several other tomato diseases might be confused for blossom-end rot, but none have the exact same set of characteristics. "Blossom ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hanging tomato fruit shows signs of blossom end rot. - Dan Gabriel Atanasie/Shutterstock There's nothing more frustrating for a ...

Blossom-end rot is a fruit disorder that affects members of the nightshade family, especially tomatoes, eggplants and peppers. Although this nasty ailment looks like an infection or disease, it’s ...

Dear Roger: You often mention 'Better Boy' as the offender when it comes to blossom-end rot. It is not the only tomato that gets blossom-end rot. Blossom-end rot is caused by a deficiency of calcium.

Q. I was wondering if you had any solutions for tomato rot. I throw my grass clippings on the soil to keep the weeds out. Does that have anything to do with it? – RM, Tinley Park, Illinois. A. Blossom ...

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 ...

Blossom-end rot is a disorder that results in the decay of tomato fruits on their blossom end. Photo provided I recently received an email from Frank Koziol with some pictures of tomatoes from his ...

This story was originally published in August 2020. For home gardeners, nothing quite compares to the crush of disappointment of cultivating a tomato plant over the course of a growing season only to ...

Our recent cycles of cool, wet weather followed by warm, dry conditions can be a real challenge to home gardeners. And as our tomatoes and other fruits and vegetables start to come on, another problem ...

A: The disease that defoliated many lilac shrubs the last several years was identified as being caused by pseudocercospora ...

Your tomatoes are coming along beautifully — good-sized plants, nice foliage, blossoms and burgeoning fruit. Then, you see something disturbing. The developing fruit is showing brown spots on the ...