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New plant producing tomatoes and potatoes launched in UK, the TomTato

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27-09-2013 | 04:12

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Horticultural mail order company Thompson & Morgan launched a new plant in the UK, which produces both potatoes and tomatoes, describing it as a “veg plot in a pot”.

The plant, dubbed “TomTato” can grow more than 500 sweet cherry tomatoes while producing white potatoes.

The company said the hybrid plants were individually hand-crafted and not a product of genetic engineering, adding that the tomatoes produced by the kind of plants are far sweeter than those available in the vegetable markets.

However, the same company revealed that grafted potato-tomato plants have already been produced in the UK, stressing in the other hand that this is the first time they have been successfully produced commercially.

Paul Hansord, horticultural director at the company, said he first had the idea for the plant 15 years ago in the US, when he visited a garden where someone had planted a potato under a tomato as a joke.

The plants can be grown either outside or inside, as long as they are in a large pot or bag.

A similar product, called the "Potato Tom", was launched in garden centers in New Zealand this week.

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