"MaryL" > wrote in message
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> On 8/14/2015 6:46 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> The people I know who do have gardens are having bumper crops of some
>> things, like giant zucchinis but the tomatoes are getting a weird
>> sunburn on the bottoms so not edible. OTOH, I have a bumper crop of one
>> kind of apple and one kind of pear. I plan to take some to a friend and
>> not sure what to do with the rest. I will not can them. Been there,
>> done that, nobody wanted them or ate them. So big waste of our time. I
>> might make some Applets. Those were quite good.
>
>
> Are you sure that's sunburn on the *bottom* of tomatoes? It sounds more
> like black root rot (although I do admit that root rot is usually more
> prevalent when there is too much water, and that is not your problem right
> now).
>
> MaryL

That was the consensus. It had been posted about on the community Facebook
page. They get like a tan look to the bottom and it's hard skin.