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Old January 18, 2018   #237
peebee
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Originally Posted by ginger2778 View Post
Just saw this.
I use Tomato Tone as my fert strip, and also supplement with a teaspoon of soluble Calcium nitrate and 1/3 teaspoon of epsom salts down the Earthbox tube once per week. The Epsom salts is to keep the plants from getting a magnesium deficiency from unbalanced addition of the calcium.
Thanks Ginger, just checking to see if you changed anything from the year before. Are you using calcium nitrate to prevent BER? If it is not a problem in my garden, do you still recommend it? I used Epsom salts last summer w/out the calcium, oops. But my tomatoes in the EBs were fine.
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