"DIY TomTato - Grafting Tomatoes onto Potatoes 2014"

I first saw this is our local paper yesterday. It seems Thompson & Morgan have successfully grafted tomato and potato plants to produce the 'TomTato'.

I think at nearly £15 per plant I'll give it a miss though.

http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetables/vegetable-plants/all-vegetable-plants/tomtato/t47176TM

 

Sounds like another T&M scam to me, wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

 

Too Scary

 

Quite a fuss about it in some of the tabloids too, but I can see problems, what if the spuds are ready before the tomatoes and you want to lift them!! , I'll be sticking to tradition myself and giving them a miss too

 

Just think of the seed potatoes and tom seeds you can get for £15........

Maybe a novelty for anyone who hasn't got much space i suppose....

 

With T&M you will end up with the wrong variety anyway.

 

I'm waiting for T&M to start selling tomacco plants

 

I'll be giving it a miss too. A dose of blight and you lose the lot with no chance of rescuing anything.

 

You have obviously not been reading the Bordeaux mixture thread.

 

Me too, £15 bought me a full 25kg sack of second early seed (approx. 300 tubers), earlier this year. I split that bag with a friend and we both have enough tatties (now harvested) to last most of the year.

Now if T&M are selling a plant that will do that...then I'll possibly be interested.

Steve...

 

Anything T &M can do!!!!

 

OK Loli, are you thinking of creating your own? I wondered about trying to graft a tomato scion onto a potato tuber, but I wonder what the candidate varieties are; I think Gardeners Delight would be good for the scion but what potato? I'm thinking a main crop variety.

Anyone any ideas?

 

I wondered if you'd be up for it John.....
I was thinking of a Beefmaster scion only because that what i had the most success with this year...and a Desiree or Rooster

 

Good choices Loli, I'm imaging next season, picking lovely tomatoes all summer, then when they have finished digging up a great pile of spuds. What could possibly go wrong?

Seriously, I am tempted to give this a try. I can see all sorts of problems with timings and stopping the potato from sending up it's own shoots, still it might be fun.

 

Me too John.......must say when i first saw the advert i did roll my eyes(what next)...but curiosity has got the better of me and after having a go at grafting tomatoes i fancy my chances of a TomTato