eggshells

[peregrinefalcon]

Are eggshells around tomato plants really any good at helping to prevent blossom end rot?
Just curious. I've had the problem before (in other places), and hoped this might be a simple, cheap way to deal with it if I get it in my new garden.

Comments

eggshells and tomatoes

[socialisthobo]

My experience with ground up egg shells burried directly under tomato seedlings reduced spots that were I believe due to a lack of calcium in our soil when there was too much rain and we had spotty tomatoes the year before. I'm not sure if that was blossom end rot, or what else that did.

Re: eggshells and tomatoes

[fat_annie]

i work at a nursery... and thats what we recommend if you dont want to go the route of adding calcium amendments....

lack of calcium and uneven watering are themain causes of the problem

[eqfe]

It won't hurt, but the take a while to break down, for immediate relief I usually use some wood ashes. The calcium is virtually all immediately available.

[rhiannon_jehane]

A mix of equal parts milk and water is supposed to help prevent blossom end rot, too. I'm not sure anymore where I read this -- I think it was from the book You Grow Girl.

(I did both the eggshells and the occasional milk-water mix last year, and out of a fairly big crop of tomatoes, I only lost one fruit to blossom end rot. Whether it was from the eggshells or the milk is anybody's guess, though!)

[atlanticat]

I've always used eggshells to help prevent blossom end rot on my tomatoes, particularly because I grow in containers, and they seem to work quite well.