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Dark green is a good sign of adequate nitrogen. Usually my tomatoes have blossom end rot on the first few tomatoes and then they straighten up on their own without me doing anything special, except this year because I put on too much nitrogen just to see what I could get away with. Large plants...

If the chicken litter is half poop and half litter, that is something like N 0.8 P 1.0 K 0.5. Vegetable crop handbook says to broadcast and till in 50 lbs/acre of N. If these are true, that is 473 lbs of chicken litter in 3300 ft2. Then it states to sidedress with about half of that when the...

Seems like you're on top of things. Potatoes are kinda picky about any nitrogen so no surprise. It really sounds like your tomatoes don't have enough nitrogen to me if all you do is fetilize in the fall. How much litter/poop are you applying per how may sq ft?

Too much nitrogen can cause that too. Chances are that the dirt had plenty of calcium but the plant couldn't absorb or properly use it, such as too much nitrogen or the pH was way off or some other reason. City or well water (if you water your plants) should already contain a lot of calcium and...