Nearly all my tomatoes have a split on them!

Primrose

cba - small cherry tomatoes freeze whole. Bigger ones are best quartered. If you bung them all in a bag the chopped ones risk freezing together in a hard block which makes it difficult to separate them if you only want to use a few for putting in a sauce or caserole. If you have a freezing tray in your freezer, freeze the portions loose for 30 - 45 minutes until they are hard and then bag them up. They will stay separate then and be much easier to handle. I freeze beans and sliced peppers in a similar way.

hamaradam

I had a cherry tomato plant growing from my sewage pipe, in the thin gap between the outside wall of the bathroom and where the concrete forecourt starts....

Datchet

Just actively pick all the ripe ones daily ( or even twice daily!) Always do a harvest before a thorough watering - as that is what splits em'!

If we are going away for a day or two then pick the not quite ripe ones - fridge or windowsill to ripen them.

Happy Puree-ing !

Primrose

I could live with my almost-ripe ones splitting, as a couple of days on a warm window sill will ripen them off enough to process but when I looked this morning about 30% of my green ones are now going the same way. I'm desperately praying for three solid days of Bank Holiday sunshine to bring them on as I can't afford to waste them. I'm relying on them to provide much of the next few months' supply of tomato puree and passata. Isn't crop growing a bu**er ?? Every year something goes wrong with something.