What happens if our tomatoes crack?

You have a heavy rain, sometimes this happens.

Now, it can be very sad because of course you want a beautiful perfect looking tomato,

but if yours cracks it doesn't

look perfect can you still eat it yes and no before we get into that let's talk

about why it actually happens so what's going on there is if you go through a boom and bus cycle of not a lot of water then a lot of water

The skin doesn't stay elastic as long as it should, right?

And so basically what's happening is the interior gets really dry,

shrubles up a little bit, as does the skin,

and then you get a flush of water

and it expands on the inside much quicker than it can keep up on the outside which causes some pressure which causes that

Cracking so you can solve this by watering more consistently

But sometimes it just rains and you really can't do anything about that and so then it cracks.

So can you still eat a tomato like that?

Yeah, if the split is kind of small and it's not really ripped into it, then just harvest it, eat it,

probably eat it sooner than later, it's probably fine. Now if you have a large cut

that seems like there's some discoloration, there's something weird going on there,

then it's probably a good idea to just scrap it, you can throw it in the compost, maybe you can

ferment the seeds and use the seeds. Sometimes you'll actually see it heal itself.

It will try to resolve that crack and you'll get a little bit of a gray white scarring. Now if that happens then you can just

harvest it when it's vine ripe and cut it off and then just carve out that area if you

don't like that and you're in a good spot. So you don't have to worry about it too too much.

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