Gardening Farming
Posted on August 7, 2023
As you harvest the first tomatoes of the season, you may notice that some of the fruit is not perfect. Blossom end rot, a physiologic disorder, results in dry, sunken, brown areas on the blossom end or bottom of the fruit. Blossom end rot also can occur on peppers but often is on the sides of the fr...
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