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A Project for next year?

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  • #2
    Sonnenblumen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    Sorry but I don't get this at all or the claim about really saving 'space'?


  • #3
    Northumbria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 159 ✭✭Northumbria


    Sonnenblumen wrote: »
    Sorry but I don't get this at all or the claim about really saving 'space'?

    You graft a tomato plant onto a potato plant and get potatoes from the roots, tomatoes from the top. Would have to be a good outside variety like 'Outdoor girl' to do well in the open though.


  • #4
    jezko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭jezko


    Northumbria wrote: »
    You graft a tomato plant onto a potato plant and get potatoes from the roots, tomatoes from the top. Would have to be a good outside variety like 'Outdoor girl' to do well in the open though.

    No doubt you would not have a massive crop of either Potatos or tomatos, but if space is limited and yield was not a major issue, instead if you could pick cultivars for better tasting / flavour etc. But as was mentioned in the vid, you have to think about the toxins of the potato family if they have infected the fruit or tuber.


  • #5
    jezko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭jezko


    Sonnenblumen wrote: »
    Sorry but I don't get this at all or the claim about really saving 'space'?

    Why isn't it space saving?

    you have two "different" crops growing in a Pot taking up the space of one plant.
    Someone, with a 'Patio' garden I believe would find this useful.

    Granted you may not have a sizable yield or maybe the Quailty/taste/etc may not be as good as the Norm.

    The Idea is far from New, Fruit Trees (Apple) are often grafted with 2 or more cultivars to save space in commercial orchards, (Pollination purposes etc)

    The idea alone, is great I think, to join two 'different' plants together to make one.


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