Blossom End Rot and Fried Green Tomatoes
Fried Green Tomatoes
Our latest issue has been with our tomatoes. First, some of them are getting blossom end rot. The ends start to turn dark and leathery and will eventually start to rot the whole tomato. We found this with several of the green tomatoes on our plant last weekend and, in order to save the fruit, we went ahead and picked the tomatoes, cut away the bad areas, and made fried green tomatoes. I had never tried fried green tomatoes before since I’m not a big tomato fan, but these were great. Thanks Drew!
Apparently, one way to quickly stop blossom end rot is to dissolve Tums in the water that you pour over the plants. This condition is caused by a lack of calcium which is exactly what Tums are made of. We’ll see if it works.
The other issue is that we have some sort of critter starting to eat our tomatoes before they ripen. We’ve harvested a few and are trying to ripen them in brown paper bags. If that seems to work we will go ahead and take them all.