Is there anything more frustrating than patiently waiting for tomatoes to ripen, only to find them cracked or split right before they're ready to harvest and enjoy? If you keep finding your beautiful ...

Plump red tomato growing outside on the vine, with a horizontal crack across the fruit. - Santun Solihin/Shutterstock Whatever variety of tomato plant you're growing, the fruits are susceptible to ...

After tending to your tomato plants for weeks, cracks are a common but frustrating sight. Split tomatoes are generally safe to eat, but the exposed flesh does shorten their shelf life since they are ...

Cracked tomatoes may look alarming, but the cause is often simple. Tomatoes typically split due to sudden changes in watering, especially after a dry spell followed by heavy rain or overwatering.

There's nothing more satisfying than a bountiful harvest of summer tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) from your garden. But if you've had a particularly wet few days, you may notice that some of those ...

Home gardeners face the problem of tomato cracking, or hard cracks on the upper part of the fruit, usually spanning from or around the stem. While the cracks do not necessarily ruin the tomato, they ...

Tomatoes typically split due to sudden changes in watering, especially after a dry spell followed by heavy rain or overwatering. Tomatoes with thinner skins, like heirloom varieties, are more ...