Antipodean Bucket Farmer wrote:
Hi Everybody,

Springtime here, and my tomatoes are in.

What is the most appropriate stuff for giving them
calcium (to prevent blossum-end-rot), while respecting
their PH acidity needs?

I am guessing blood-n-bone-meal? Sprinkled liberally?...


The bone meal would be OK but the blood meal contains a high nitrogen
concentration. Too much nitrogen will make tomato plants generate more
foliage than fruit. So it will depend on how liberally you sprinkle. The
bone meal should have been incorporated into the soil before planting,
but sprinkling it on top will help some. Neither of these components by
themselves should affect your pH levels.

So what have you done in previous years? Has it worked? Or are you just
trying to optimize your tomato yield?

Since you described your tomatoes in the plural, you have more than one.
How about adding the blood-n-bone meal to half and just plain bone meal
to the other half and keep a record of how well they do as far as fruit
production.