Honestly, I've never checked my soil ever.
I don't fertilize with commercial chemicals either. I add a few bags of mushroom compost every year before planting, that's about as much as I do. Last time this happened I read, it was calcium so I diluted bone meal and it instantly stopped it.
My brother in law had same issue. Funny him he put calcium tablets in water bottles and stuck them in the ground, it worked too.

I have been lucky only dealt with bloom rot   once and used the spray mentioned above with moderate effect.  I prefer spreading manure in the garden in the fall and tilling it or plowing it under but more often then not do it in the spring with no issues other than it can get a little clumpy and does not have as much time to break down.  We got 400 bales today and we have only 1/2 Lot left then I can start doing things on the weekend again. Had multiple breakdowns today. Hay wrapped around rake causing 1 hour delay, bottom hose clamp rusted off truck and puked all the coolant out. Dad went to get his newish truck and when we got half a load on smoke started coming from hood. Seems the air conditioning compressor locked up and shredded the belt .  Hood thing it is going it tomorrow for a ''Service trailer brake system'' tomorrow. 2 weeks till the warranty is up so kind of lucky it broke now. Power then went out for several hours meaning I had to use the genny to power the elevator

Im about ready to load the truck with empty rain barrels and take the 1/4 mile trip to the creek for garden water.
My plants do not like chlorinated town water .

Well done.

Jalapenos are ready, bunch pickle cukes too. I'll harvest sat or Sunday so I can pickle and can them.
About 6 ripe tomatoes, bunch of beans and dehydrating herbs everyday .
Last of peas ,lettuce and spinach got harvested.
Started another patch for a later harvest

I couldn't wait on the pickling cukes.
Found a bunch hiding and many more to come by Sunday. These will keep till then.
1 straight 8 that was ready

One 15 minute shower that's it. Indo have some beans and some very small cukes.  Of course yellow squash and zucs too. Corn is starting to tassel and its not tall enough, that's bad news

We got a little here, enough to put about a gallon in each of my rain buckets.  corn it stunted all around from what I see around, gonna be a tough year canning wise.  I have beans a broccoli also upon further review

We are FINALLY getting some rain this morning,but we need a couple days of steady rain and hope we get it for the local farms.

Two nights in a row of staying out past 2am so things are moving a little slow here today . Don't know how I'm able to do this at my age but I live life like there's no tomorrow, lol.
Anyway, my garden isn't faring as well as i hoped for this season. Seems by diluting the bone meal and pouring it around the stems of my tomato plants has made an instant improvement on bottom blossom rot. While I can't turn back the ones to far gone, at least now 95% of my tomatoes are looking really good and healthy. Think I'm gonna mix another batch to pour in.
My zucchini is putrid, I have only 2 good vegetables that have come from my 12 plants. Lots of flowers that start to produce but they instantly turn to rot and fall off. Haven't been able to figure out why. To much water , not enough or is there a disease problem ? Thoughts ?
Out of 6 raspberry, 6 blackberry and 24 strawberry plants only 2 blackberry plant's survived. Pizz poor ratio.
3 peach trees, only 1 looks healthy. The other 2 look dead. 4 Apple trees, 2 are 6 year planted, 2 are 2 years planted. I have yet to see any sign of a fruit. Will say though, the deer wreak havoc on them so I'm not sure how to protect them without putting up a large fence around them . Not something I want to do .
On the bright side,
My 30 tomato plants have a lot of tomatoes, goal is at least 30 quarts of sauce but I need them to ripen at the same time, without bottom rot.
Garlic came out awesome. For sure I will double or triple my planting this fall. Cucumbers are really producing well. I'm gonna have pickles coming out my ears. That's fine because they store well.
Peppers are looking good , jalapenos always do well but I never get my hopes up on the bell peppers. They never seem to get any size to them, we shall see.
Horseradish is cranking, wife won't be happy once I start stinking up the house this fall.
Didn't do any cabbage products this year. My Brussels go infested with cabbage worms and bugs last year so I figured I'd skip anything related this season until I can start a controlled grow in a different area.

Gerry,
Your system seems fantastic. Once I build the greenhouse that the system I will use.
My problem now is my water sucks. It's got to much chlorine. I mainly rely on rain or my rain barrels for water as much as possible.
Once the greenhouse is in place I will have a large water container with a pump to supply and recycle the system.

Ok, time to start canning

I usually do not ''can'' my pickles. Anything with that much vinegar I just do the hot pack method and they seal up fine and last. Just dump the boiling brine over them and seal finger tight

Clint S
I usually do not ''can'' my pickles. Anything with that much vinegar I just do the hot pack method and they seal up fine and last. Just dump the boiling brine over them and seal finger tight

After reading your reply Clint, I was worried by canning them they might be mushy.
They we not at all , nice crisp and tasty. We ate the whole jar last night.

Just picked two colanders full . Doing bread and butter on this run.
Spicy jalapeno pickles on next run , probably this weekend.

Time to make the pickles 😀

Sorry I keep talking to myself.
Bread and butter pickles were awesome.
Another jar done gone tonight. Son in law polished off jar 2 of garlic dill pickles .
Gives me a few more empty jars to use.
Sunday I should be doing a bunch more of garden harvesting. Picking berries, making jams ,canning , blanching, freezing, dehydrating and smoking. I need to till some more ground also to prepare for next year's garlic. Going big.
Wood pile is very set and I'm just gaining on 2019-20 season.

Life is good here except I forgot what fishing is ..

Me too, I probably won't get out until an August trip to Ontario for eyes. My cakes are not doing well the turkeys got into them. Probably by from the Amish to make mine. Got some beans broccoli and coliflower tonight too. Got another chuck with a lucky shot. Was riding out back to check my traps and the little bastard popped up. Got him at 30 yards with the Glock. Lucky shot as I can't hit the broad side of anything over 15 yards lol

You guys jinxed me, or i did myself.
Found a fresh Chuck hole under shed when I moved some firewood. Heard rustling as well.
I don't mess around. If I see it, 20 gauge pop.
Tomato plants tall and heavy. Outgrew the cages and stakes . Tied them up some more.
Doing jerky and more pickles tomorrow as well as working on the smokehouse.
Maybe firewood in rain on Sunday.

Enjoy life on the garden and farming folks.


SR notes:
I doubt I'll be on the lake this year.
Hope it's not a drought fall river run.
If its the case, probably won't be there until winter 2019.