On 20 Jul 2003 12:14:01 -0700, (Lee Hall) wrote:

Hey, pete, I wonder where you are located. BER is almost exlusively a
late-season problem here in my garden in Tennessee. We have plenty of
naturally occuring calcium in our limestone-rich soil so I suppose it
is brought on by the sporadic moisture conditions here in August. Our
typical late summer weather is very hot and very humid. We sometimes
have a shower or two but it is generally drier than July. If we have
a really hot summer, It is hard to keep tender plants from cooking
altogether. I assume your climate and/or soil must be somewhat
different from what we have here to induce BER in the early season.
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Lee, I'm located in New Jersey.
When BER has been a problem it's usually in the first
fruits that appear, I'll pick them and a few more will have
BER but towards the end of the season it usually clears
up. I've tried watering evenly and mulching but it wasn't
until I amended the soil as I described in an earlier post
that the problem went away.

It's intersting that you have the BER problem later in the
season so maybe you do have a moisture problem.
I really don't know for sure. Consider doing a soil test.

---pete---