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Old 27-01-2006, 06:32 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default Tomato Rootstck
On 1/26/06 9:11 PM, in article , "Steve"
wrote:

2) All that explains what a rootstock is but what on earth is a tomato
rootstock? Did someone actually develop a variety of tomato that needs
to be grafted??

I do remember an article in the New Yorker about someone who grafted a
tomato plant onto locoweed rootstock. The locoweed toxin ended up in the
tomatoes to the health detriment of the man's family.

Bill

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