Epsom Salts for Blossom End Rot of Tomatoes

Blossom end rot is a physiological condition of tomatoes, peppers and eggplant that can occur when there is not enough calcium in the fruit that is developing. This deficiency can occur from drought stress or too many fluctuations in the water supply when the fruit is developing that somehow makes the calcium unavailable to the fruit. On a tomato it looks like a brown patch on the bottom that continues to enlarge and eventually sink or rot.
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James gives a Warning:

“Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.” Otherwise you are boasting about your own plans, and all such boasting is evil.

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Promise, my friend

Promise was born January 3, 1998 in Pea Ridge, North Carolina under the watchful eye of dog breeder and caregiver, Wallace Craddock. Sara brought him from North Carolina to Leesburg, delivering him to me in the early spring. I remember the first time I laid eyes on him…the cutest puppy, trotting happily right behind her down the sidewalk in our Leesburg, Virginia neighborhood. And for twelve and one-half years he continued to walk happily alongside each and every one of my family members who were willing to take him out for one of his favorite things…a walk down the sidewalk in the same neighborhood.

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