Calcium supplements have been the professional grower’s go-to solution for producing higher quality fruits and vegetables with more vibrant colors and a longer shelf life for years, but have been widely overlooked in the home garden. Recent and ongoing studies show that providing easily absorbable calcium to your garden fruits and vegetables has amazing benefits. It can eliminate diseases like blossom-end rot and many others that are caused by calcium deficiency. It enhances disease resistance and increases the quantity and quality of everything that you grow. Even the natural calcium content in the fruits and vegetables is enhanced, making them that much healthier for your family. Additionally, a longer shelf life means your produce lasts longer, even enabling you to preserve larger amounts at one time.
Signs of calcium deficiency in your soil include blossom end rot on tomatoes or peppers, but can also begin with leaf-margin necrosis and leaf curling on young leaves, eventually resulting in the death of the buds and root tips. New growth is usually affected first. Getting your soil tested for calcium deficiency will have to be done through a local university extension office or soil lab, but there is nothing to suggest that too much calcium will be detrimental, the recommended calcium percentage in some areas of the country being as high as 75%. Get professional results by following the professionals’ lead!
