I dug more compost into my pepper bed just to stop those black sunken tips: by August, with the fruit rotting again, I understood what my watering can had been doing
Those black, sunken tips on pepper fruit aren’t a hunger problem—they’re a delivery problem. Calcium sits in your soil while your inconsistent watering habits starve the fruit of what it needs most. Here’s why adding more compost in August is too late, and what actually works.