Q: Every year I battle blossom end rot on my tomatoes. What can you recommend? — Lenzy Bond A: I used to recommend adding a tablespoon of garden lime to the planting hole to provide the calcium that ...

Gypsum is a naturally occurring mineral that has been used in the United States since Benjamin Franklin first applied ground raw gypsum, called land plaster, on his soils. Today, as Franklin did then, ...

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The widespread occurrence of plant species confined to gypsum soils (gypsophiles) is noted in various semiarid and arid areas of the world. They are principally herbs and dwarf shrubs. Many of them ...

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Q: We’ve been in our new house for our second spring. It has been very difficult getting fescue to grow from seed, so we’re considering Bermuda sod. A friend suggested putting gypsum down with the ...