By Rhonda StansberryWORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER
If the first tomatoes of the season have an ugly black spot on the bottom, don't despair. This season's crop isn't ruined.
Those tomatoes — which have blossom end rot — have to go, but later tomatoes should be fine with a few adjustments in watering and mulching.
Blossom end rot is also a common problem of peppers, eggplant, squash and watermelon. It occurs as a flat, dry, sunken, brown rot on the blossom end of the fruit, opposite the stem end.
The solution is to get water to the plant so that it can take up more calcium.
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