My first attempt at gardening and my tomatoes are not edible 😢
What did I do wrong ?
by Veggiemom63
10 Comments
timkatt10
That looks like blossom end rot. It can be caused by a few things, I believe insufficient watering and lack of minerals are most common.
Recluse_18
This happened to me as well. What I found really interesting was the squirrels ate the green as well as the semi ripe tomatoes from the vines. I never realize squirrels eat tomatoes. I live in Minnesota, and I am in an apartment so my garden is container gardening on my balcony. And the squirrels have been digging in all of the pots, I truly believe we are going to have a very hard snowy winter.
Veggiemom63
Wow! I had no idea they did either. I wonder if cats like tomatoes, my area is overrun with cats.
metaljane666
Yep it’s blossom end rot. Prevent by consistently watering and fertilizing. Looks like your plant is in a container which, depending on your zone, may need watering twice a day and fertilizing every two or three weeks. This condition starts showing when the fruits are still small and green. Go ahead and pick them off so your plant doesn’t use up energy growing them til ripe. You can catch it early and correct the problem for the new set fruits. Pretty common problem though, happens to us all!
little_cat_bird
Blossom end rot is incredibly common, usually earlier in the growing season. It’s caused by the plant’s roots not taking up sufficient calcium at the time of green fruit development, so sometimes when you notice it, the problem is actually already resolved. Temperature, moisture, and soil composition can all impact calcium uptake. Sometimes it’s due to inconsistent watering on the gardener’s part, but sometimes it’s just the weather.
Also, some tomato varieties are more prone to blossom end rot, for example Roma, San Marzano, and many other elongated paste or plum tomatoes. I almost never have BER except in these types. Every year I’ve grown them, the first 3-5 little green Roma fruits get plucked off due to brown bottoms.
StandUpPeddlingMode
!ber
WharfGator
Bone meal in the hole when you plant should help in the future
Constant-Heron-8748
Don’t give up
Mama_reign
They are calcium deficient. If you go on Amazon and buy Cal mag concentrate, you can correct that you just follow the instructions on the bottle next year if you remember take a bunch of eggshells and mix it in with your soil when you’re planting your stuff when there’s still a little baby plants And then maybe you won’t have to use the Cal mag either way it’s always good to have on hand, and if you stay start to happen, pull the tomato off and treat the planT
10 Comments
That looks like blossom end rot. It can be caused by a few things, I believe insufficient watering and lack of minerals are most common.
This happened to me as well. What I found really interesting was the squirrels ate the green as well as the semi ripe tomatoes from the vines. I never realize squirrels eat tomatoes. I live in Minnesota, and I am in an apartment so my garden is container gardening on my balcony. And the squirrels have been digging in all of the pots, I truly believe we are going to have a very hard snowy winter.
Wow! I had no idea they did either. I wonder if cats like tomatoes, my area is overrun with cats.
Yep it’s blossom end rot. Prevent by consistently watering and fertilizing. Looks like your plant is in a container which, depending on your zone, may need watering twice a day and fertilizing every two or three weeks. This condition starts showing when the fruits are still small and green. Go ahead and pick them off so your plant doesn’t use up energy growing them til ripe. You can catch it early and correct the problem for the new set fruits. Pretty common problem though, happens to us all!
Blossom end rot is incredibly common, usually earlier in the growing season. It’s caused by the plant’s roots not taking up sufficient calcium at the time of green fruit development, so sometimes when you notice it, the problem is actually already resolved. Temperature, moisture, and soil composition can all impact calcium uptake. Sometimes it’s due to inconsistent watering on the gardener’s part, but sometimes it’s just the weather.
Also, some tomato varieties are more prone to blossom end rot, for example Roma, San Marzano, and many other elongated paste or plum tomatoes. I almost never have BER except in these types. Every year I’ve grown them, the first 3-5 little green Roma fruits get plucked off due to brown bottoms.
!ber
Bone meal in the hole when you plant should help in the future
Don’t give up
They are calcium deficient. If you go on Amazon and buy Cal mag concentrate, you can correct that you just follow the instructions on the bottle next year if you remember take a bunch of eggshells and mix it in with your soil when you’re planting your stuff when there’s still a little baby plants
And then maybe you won’t have to use the Cal mag either way it’s always good to have on hand, and if you stay start to happen, pull the tomato off and treat the planT
Looks like you’ve accidentally grown tomacco