Clint M I container garden and last year both of my grow bag tomatoes got BER and even though I picked them off the BER came back!! So this year I decided to be pro active and use foliar sprays of Epsom salt of both calcium nitrate & calcium carbonate I began applying the sprays 3 times a week as soon as the first fruits appeared. Knock on wood, its been 3 weeks now and no trace of BER yet. Luck? Maybe but I think I'm giving the tomatoes what they need in a form they can absorb easily. I never had BER problems when I planted in soil, its my belief that the potting mix just runs out of vital nutrients that are needed in the growing stage to form fruit that is free of BER. I also used 2 Jobes tomato spikes in each grow bag. The jury is still out but so far the initial results are very promising... Will it work for everyone? Don't know, heck I'm not even sure it will for me, but so far so good!
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