Do your tomatoes look like this? You can still save the crops

S.o.s!!! The moment you're looking forward to the red tomatoes, the sight of the flower bed can spoil your joy. On the underside of the fruits appear large brown spots.The same unpleasant surprise awaited me in the garden this week.Fortunately, fruits with an ugly stain on the underside have only appeared on one plant so far. Last year I would have panicked that tomatoes were destroying my mold, this year I am a little smarter (and calmer).I already know that crops are pretty easy to save. The diagnosis is – calcium deficiency. Really no mold, don't worry (that is, if the stains are really just on the underside of the tomatoes, watch out for that!).

Necrosis on fruits is caused by poorly limed soil, but according to experts, too much heat and drought or too much nitrogen in the fertilizer also affects – even this can contribute to the fact that calcium in the plant is "poorly spread". And it will be reflected in those parts of the plant that are furthest from the roots – that is, on fruits, for example. The stain is watery at first (see green tomato), later browned.For example, the fruits on peppers may be equally affected.

So what's first aid? Remove the damaged fruits and immediately give the plants calcium doping by spraying them on the leaf. This will achieve the fastest effect and you have a high chance of success. In horticulture you will definitely advise a suitable preparation (eg. Harmony Calcium, Kalcolit, Wuxal Calcium…). Do not forget – look for the preparation with the application on the sheet!

And we wouldn't be on our website if we hadn't added a woman's advice. In this case, milk. Maybe someone's going to knock on their forehead saying it's complete nonsense. But when the stains appeared on my tomatoes last year, I was so unhappy that I tried this too – before I could buy Wuxal, I watered and sprayed the plants with milk. Hard to judge whether the milk helped anything, but I saved the vast majority of the fruits, so it certainly didn't hurt 🙂

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not have to blame yourself for neglecting something – some varieties are simply more sensitive to calcium deficiency. In our country, necrosis appeared especially in large, meaty tomatoes.And on the contrary, never with cherry tomatoes, which we grow several kinds and colors.

Of course, it is better to prevent problems, so for next season take the following basic measures:
1) In autumn, make the manatees well
2) when planting, put crushed egg shells in the well under each seedling.Shells are a great thing, but by the time the spots on the fetuses appear, it's too late to apply them. So put them with the tomatoes really straight when planting.

Photo: Sewers/Jaksiudelat.com.au