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'TomTato' tomato and potato plant unveiled in UK
BBC ^
| 26 September 2013
| Staff
Posted on 09/30/2013 6:27:15 AM PDT by Red Badger
A plant that produces both tomatoes and potatoes, called the TomTato, has been developed for the UK market.
Ipswich-based horticultural firm Thompson and Morgan said the hybrid plants were not genetically modified.
Similar plants have been created in the UK, but the firm said it was thought to be the first time they had been produced on a commercial scale.
Guy Barter, of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), said it was looking at the plant with "real interest".
Mr Barter said many of these plants - created by a technique known as grafting - had been created before but taste had previously been a problem.
"We're looking at it with real interest because Thompson and Morgan are a really reputable firm with a lot to lose, but I wouldn't rule out that it could be a very valuable plant to them," said Mr Barter, who is a contributor to BBC Gardener's World.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: agriculture; gardening; horticulture; potato; tomato
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The TomTato has been described as a "veg plot in a pot"
To: Diana in Wisconsin
Gardening Ping!....................
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posted on
09/30/2013 6:27:41 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
09/30/2013 6:28:23 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Red Badger
Still waiting for tomacco.
To: Red Badger
That’s cool but I’m holding out for one that throws T-bones & spuds.
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posted on
09/30/2013 6:33:04 AM PDT
by
WinMod70
To: Red Badger
Why would one want to pull up a perfectly good tomato plant just to get at the potatoes?
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posted on
09/30/2013 6:35:06 AM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: Red Badger
Any sign of Key Lime Broccoli appearing in supermarkets and pastry shops?
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posted on
09/30/2013 6:35:41 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
To: Red Badger
Make the leaves into lettuce.
To: Red Badger
Paging Dilbert and Wally, Dilbert and Wally...
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posted on
09/30/2013 6:36:31 AM PDT
by
Rebel_Ace
(Tags?!? Tags?!? We don' neeeed no stinkin' Tags!)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I think the pulled plant in the picture is for the picture.
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posted on
09/30/2013 6:38:51 AM PDT
by
cornelis
To: Red Badger
Fries and ketchup in the same plant!
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posted on
09/30/2013 6:39:22 AM PDT
by
socal_parrot
(I hate to say I told you so, but...)
To: Red Badger
Call me when they can grow surf and turf!
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posted on
09/30/2013 6:44:02 AM PDT
by
22202NOVA
(DoD civilian, retired Army. Furlough...the new "F" word.)
To: WinMod70
tomatoes, potatoes and BACON!!
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posted on
09/30/2013 6:51:12 AM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Red Badger
Isn’t any hybrid pant “genetically modified?”
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posted on
09/30/2013 6:54:51 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
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posted on
09/30/2013 6:55:22 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: Red Badger
That would be a great garden space saver.
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posted on
09/30/2013 6:55:36 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Red Badger
I heard about a pumpkin plant grafted onto an oak tree. The idea was that a strong tree could carry the heavy pumpkins but when a fifty pound pumpkin fell from a high branch onto a worker reducing him to a midget Mr. Pumpkin Head the plan was so to say......dropped.
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posted on
09/30/2013 6:57:29 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
To: count-your-change
To: Red Badger
That’s pretty cool, but you have to kill the plant to harvest the potatoes?
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posted on
09/30/2013 7:06:12 AM PDT
by
autumnraine
(America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to thoe tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
To: Red Badger
Maybe I haven’t had enough chocolate milk yet, but that just looks vulgar - like fruit and vegetable porn.
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posted on
09/30/2013 7:07:15 AM PDT
by
BuckeyeTexan
(There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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