{"id":3280,"date":"2013-06-14T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T07:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2013-06-14T03:00:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T07:00:54","slug":"q-and-a-tomato-leaves-turning-white-and-adding-calcium-to-tomato-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/06\/14\/q-and-a-tomato-leaves-turning-white-and-adding-calcium-to-tomato-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: tomato leaves turning white and adding calcium to tomato plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tomato leaves turning white<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>About a week ago I set out my 50 tomato plants. By the next day the leaves were turning white and falling off. (Same with the peppers.) I&#8217;m assuming it&#8217;s from spray drift from the neighboring farm as it happened last year and the leaves grew back after a week or two. Is there some way I can protect the soil next year before planting or plant differently? Maybe black plastic over the whole garden area? The 12 tomato plants that are in WOW&#8217;s in another garden are fine. Thank you for any suggestions or insights you can give on this problem.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joyce Sherman<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Hornell, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>No, I don&#8217;t think it was spray drift. It sure sounds like wind\/sun burn to me. I&#8217;ll bet you didn&#8217;t harden off your plants by gradually exposing them to the wind and sun, an hour or so a day at first in a relatively protected location, then gradually increasing both the time and exposure. In Wall O&#8217; Waters, they are still in a &#8220;greenhouse,&#8221; protected against these damaging elements. I don&#8217;t have to harden off my plants because I use Wall O&#8217; Waters myself. Yours is a problem easily fixed. Thank goodness! &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adding calcium to tomato plants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>I have already planted the tomato plants in the ground. I know that I will need to add calcium to the soil. At this point what is a good way of doing that? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Tonya Bowles<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Paoli, Indiana<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t need to add calcium unless you have had a lot of trouble with blossom end rot, which is caused by a combination of a lack of calcium and intermittent watering. (Usually if you step up your watering and mulch your plants, the problem disappears.) You can either work in a calcium compound such as bonemeal or lime (unless your soil is already alkaline) shallowly around the plants. However, this takes a while to be absorbed. Some folks spray the foliage and blooms with a blossom end rot spray to get quicker results. Improving the soil and watering retention\/frequency is a better long-term option. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomato leaves turning white About a week ago I set out my 50 tomato plants. By the next day the leaves were turning white and falling off. (Same with the peppers.) I&#8217;m assuming it&#8217;s from spray drift from the neighboring farm as it happened last year and the leaves grew back after a week or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}