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To: Silentgypsy

The Bone Meal provides Phosphorus for blooming and setting fruit, so I use it on tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, okra; just about anything that fruits. It’s cheap and effective!

The eggshells provide calcium to ward off Blossom End Rot, which is not a ‘disease’ but a lack of calcium. Calcium is the first thing to leach out of your soil (or anything potted) when there’s a LOT of rain - which is what we’re dealing with this season in Zone 4/5, in the SE corner of Wisconsin.

I use both Bone Meal and crushed up eggshells when planting out my peppers and zucchini, because they can get Blossom End Rot, too.


37 posted on 07/06/2019 8:20:17 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.~Alfred Austin)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Thank you.


51 posted on 07/06/2019 1:58:51 PM PDT by Silentgypsy (Call an addiction hotline and say you're hooked on phonics.)
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