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What's growing on, Beehaw? (self.greenspace)

submitted 4 months ago by LallyLuckFarm to c/greenspace

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How is it the middle of July already?!?

The director of our town's library gave me gift cards for doing some educational talks - gift cards to another nursery... The gesture was very kind, and I'm glad to expand our plantings, but wow did I have some mixed feelings that I didn't expect.

And my wife ordered some teeny tiny succulents as favors for our baby shower next week, so now I'm wondering what the rules are for proplifting from plants one is giving as gifts. Please discuss, as well as telling us what's growing on with you all <3

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[–] xylem 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Any idea what's happening to my tomatoes? Pretty much every one I've picked so far has looked like this on the bottom

[–] LallyLuckFarm 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It looks like blossom end rot to me, which is usually associated with uneven/extreme differences in water availability and with low available calcium. We get it with our peppers more often than our tomatoes, but something that's helped is:

Dissolving egg shells in apple cider vinegar
Straining out the now-rubbery shell bits
Adding the vinegar to a sprayer with water in a 10:1 (water to acv) solution and foliar spraying
Adding the shell bits to the soil just under the mulch

Treating the shells with the ACV releases some of the carbon that's bonded, making the resultant form of calcium much more plant available. Foliar spraying can help be a sort of direct injection of the calcium solution through the stoma, while the remaining shells will be a slower trickle of the necessary calcium at the root zone.

[–] xylem 2 points 4 months ago

Thank you! I'll give this a try. It makes sense, I haven't done any fertilizing since making this bed in the spring (compost/topsoil blend from a local supplier), and haven't been the most consistent on watering...

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