29-09-2013, 08:33 AM
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Tomtato.
There's an advert in today's paper for a plant that's both a potato plant and a tomato plant (it had been on the telly during the week). it costs just under £20 for ONE plant with P&P. You could buy a lot of potatoes and tomatoes for £20 ! It's no miracle, the tomato is grafted onto a potato ........simple as they are in the same family.
29-09-2013, 08:43 AM
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Re: Tomtato.
So you get potatoes under and toms froom the top at the same time ?Funny I just wrote about that in the WW2 thread .....
For that price I doubt it would sell ... but a space saver for small gardens .
Do you think that each might attract diesese to the other through?
I saw some hanging pea plants this year ...I have been hanging normal pea plants for years as they hang better than trying to grow them upwards .
29-09-2013, 11:52 AM
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Re: Tomtato.
Hi Alan, I saw the plant you are talking about on telly the other night, they said Thompson & Morgan have made it I believe. Can't see the point myself, and also, as Nobaggage says, I would imagine they will attract the same diseases, so even if your potatoes don't have blight the tomatoes might encourage it and vice versa. As you say, the cost outweighs the reward too.
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