Can you really grow tomatoes and potatoes on the same plant? Well, actually, you can – and it’s not a new thing – and it’s called the TomTato. Both tomato and potato are members of the Solanum family so they are genetically similar.
Getting the plant to crop both varieties has been achieved by simply grafting a cherry tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) plant onto a potato rootstock (Solanum tuberosum).
Thompson and Morgan, the company behind the promotion, say that the plant will achive over 500 cherry tomatoes with a Brix level of 10.2 – that’s apparently sweeter than supermarket tomatoes. Potato yields are claimed to be up to 2kg of white potatoes
Thompson and Morgan say concept has been worked on for over 15 years, but this is the first time that plants have been successfully produced commercially.
Each TomTato plant is grafted by hand without any genetic modification.
TomTato can be grown indoors or outdoors, in a patio pot, on your allotment or on the vegetable patch.
After starting my garden maintenance and landscaping business in 1984 and running it for 21 years I decided I needed a change of direction (probably a mid life crisis, no seriously! :-0) Together with my family, wife Donna, Son Henry and Daughter Fleur (not forgetting Hector the Black Labrador) I moved to France in search of an old farmhouse to renovate. In the interim period whilst waiting for the contract to go through I started writing a blog. Initially just to keep a diary for family and friends to keep up with our progress if they wished but then it occurred to me that there isn’t a real time watcher of the landscape industry in the UK. I didn’t want to waste my experience and experiences so I decided I could put all of this Juice to good use so I started Landscape Juice.
Source: Landscape Juice – Grow Tomatoes and Potatoes on the Same Plant – Philip Voice
