Hello and happy saturday gardening!
As you may have been reading in my instastories, I won my fight against the apical rot that ruined my baby sanmarzano tomatoes harvest!
As you know I love recycling and do-it-yourself stuff when it's a gardening matter... maybe I'm also a little stingy about it, but most of all I love creating and no wasting, plus my city's garden center is a bit far from my place, and in this hot summer days, the idea of taking a bus that I might have needed to wait under the sun for a comsiderable amountnof time wasn't very appealing. So, for these and other reasons, when my tomatoes showed symptoms of apical rot, instead of going to the garden center to buy calcium nitrate, I started thinking if I could find another solution., and that's what I thought.
Usually, when you plant tomatoes it's a good thing to put eggshells in the ground, so that they gradually release calcium into the soil and prevent the formation of the rot, but when the rot is already there, the problem is that you need something quicker, available immediately, rapid to absorbe for the plant. And simple eggshells left in the soil do not release calcium quickly enough. So I thought "if it's in the water, maybe the plant can absorbe it right away"...and here is what I did:
1. In a mortar, with a pestle, reduce at least 3 dry eggshells to dust. They must look like flour. It can be a little pink if the shell of the eggs you're using is brown
2. Put them in a bottle (VERY IMPORTANT use glass bottle because plastic could release harmful substances- I realized that after taking the picture so in the photograph you see a plastic bottle) with half liter of water.
3. Leave the GLASS bottle in the sun for at least one week, shaking it very well every day. The heat of the sun will help the powdered eggshells to release substances in the water. When shaking the water turns cloudy and makes some foam, but that's totally ok!
4. Give some of this water (after shaking) to your tomatoes with rot once a week right before watering, but never empty the bottle completely. Always leave 1/4 of the bottle and add water right after. And add in the bottle other powdered eggshells every time you have some.
To my plant it worked, and my second harvest showed perfect healthy tomatoes, so I thought this might be helpful to share this method with you.
Hope it is useful! 😄
This was before
And this is after
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