It's no surprise that tomatoes are a popular edible plant— so popular, in fact, that they're the one of the most consumed vegetables in the world, second only to potatoes. Growing them yourself comes ...

Overwatering your tomato plant can have detrimental effects on your crop. If it's not too late, attempting to save it is ...

Five trials were carried out under greenhouse conditions to test the efficacy of spray programmes based on biocontrol agents, phosphite-based fertilizers and a chemical inducer of resistance ...

Q: We had some blossom end rot on our tomatoes last year, which I thought was due to calcium deficiency and uneven soil moisture. But I just read that soil acidity can be a problem. I'm guessing we ...

Dear Denise: I have four tomato plants that I have raised from seed. They’re in a raised bed on my deck. For some reason, almost all of the fruits have blossom end rot. I put plants in organic soil ...

RECENT observations on the brown root rot complex of tomatoes caused Last and Ebben 1 to support the view of Termohlen 2 that a fungus which produces a grey sterile mycelium in culture is responsible ...

Q: Some of my tomatoes are rotting. I keep them off the ground, but they still have rot. What should I do? T. S., Tulsa A: Tomato fruit splits, rots or develops blemishes for several reasons. Usually ...

A dark leathery lesion on the underside of tomatoes indicates blossom end rot. It’s not a fungal condition alone, but a location of calcium deficiency that allows rot to develop. Typically, BER occurs ...

Root and foliar spray abscisic acid applications were studied to determine how ABA affects the incidence of blossom-end rot in distal tissue of tomato fruit. A combination of spray and root ABA ...

One of the current issues plaguing the home gardener right now is blossom-end rot on tomatoes. Often mistaken for a disease, it is primarily a physiological problem. No bacteria or pest causes blossom ...