Nettle solution stopped my Blossom End Rot.
Making Nettle solution
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE2xFI4Rht8
Application
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTBaSy6-ck8
VIDEO: Nettle Tea Fertilizer and Blossom End Rot
Nettle solution stopped my Blossom End Rot.
I agree. It makes a lot of sense that nettles would take care of blossom end rot. I grow comfrey and lambsquarters for teas and mulch but haven't tried nettles yet.
Interesting!
I had to use calcium nitrate to cure the BER on two of my beef tomatoes that grew in pots this summer. Anyhow, Nettle tea would be a better solution if we think organic. If I get this problem next year, I`ll give it a shot with the nettle tea. I`ve only used nettle tea in the end of the season earlier, after the BER has gone, and the weather`s cooled down a bit.
Strange anyhow, -my cherry tomatoes didn`t get the BER, even when standing in the same soil and pots.
Regards, Halvor.
Sounds like a good idea, layering nettle as a composting mulch.
I wonder if the slicers/beefs are more susceptible to BER? It could seem so.
Next year I`ll also add some shell sand to my tomato soil outside. I done a test this summer, and the soil got delicious light and porous in short time. No BER in those test pots.
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Thats my challenge as well. I`ll start shell sanding in a corner, and work my self further and further each year. I use the type of shell sand they usally give to hens and chickens. Anyhow, I know about a place I could dig it up my self, -so maybe that could`ve been a good idea.
That is great. It looks like it worked really well for you.
This is really cool Jay! I'm not very well educated on finding plants so I'm going to need to learn how to locate and find nettles. Do we even have them here in the south? humm…. God Bless, brotha!
Awww. That is so sweet that you are looking out for your little girl like that. BTW, your videos keep getting better and better. They are always full of interesting information.and you present them really well.
Thanks for that Jay… Not many nettles around here unfortunately but I know we can buy the seed.. Strange having to buy it considering how many we had growing wild on the farm..
Cheers 🙂