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Originally Posted by wally mcgee
I just picked several softball sized German Pink tomatoes from my hoop house, which we used for our first blt s of the summer. 
They were fantastic tasting. Sweet tomato rich flavor, but my wife complained that she had to cut out a large corky fibrous core out of them. It did waste a portion of the tomatoes. 
What causes this? Is there something I can do?  
Even with the corky parts, it was far better tasting than the f1 hoop house variety I grew last year. |
I've noticed over the years that some varieties have much larger cores than other varieties. I don't like to eat the woody cores so I just cut the cores out with a small knife before I eat them or slice them for sandwiches. I was recently in one of those kitchen supply stores in a mall. They had a display of a coring tool for use on everything from apples to tomatoes. I also pay attention to varieties that consistently have large cores and consider that fact when I am deciding which varieties to grow the following year.
Ted