Plant doubles up with potato and tomato crop

A plant which produces both potatoes and tomatoes has been launched in the UK.
By The Newsroom
Published 26th Sep 2013, 01:01 BST

The TomTato can grow 500 sweet cherry tomatoes while producing white potatoes.

Horticultural mail order company Thompson & Morgan, which is selling the plants for £14.99 each, said the hybrid plants were individually hand-crafted and not a product of genetic engineering.

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Grafted potato-tomato plants have already been produced in the UK, but Thompson & Morgan says this is the first time they have been successfully produced commercially.

Paul Hansord, horticultural director at the firm, said he first had the idea 15 years ago in the US, where a gardener had planted a potato under a tomato as a joke. He said: “The end result is far superior than anything I could have hoped for, tomatoes which have a flavour that makes shop tomatoes inedible, as well as, a good crop of potatoes.”