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• @shonin@c.im 2026-08-08 15:00

  @mikecastro@mastodon.world Calcium deficiency is a big problem for tomatoes. You can help them by grinding and roasting eggshells. It takes time for them to help, like scatter them before planting season. It's also good to scatter Epsom salts at their base, and to water at the base, not on the leaves. Rain or overwatering will split tomatoes. If you are getting heat over 40c sometimes, that will harm as well. Partial shading, such as a canopy of coffee sacking, can relieve. We have the opposite problem here, low night time temperatures, preventing ripening. They want 15c or better; we seldom have that. A greenhouse is often the answer to that, but then there is low pollination so we resort to hand pollinating with a tiny artist brush or similar.

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