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Once upon a time on usenet T wrote:
On 01/27/2015 06:44 PM, ~misfit~ wrote: Once upon a time on usenet Hypatia Nachshon wrote: On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 7:15:28 PM UTC-8, ~misfit~ wrote: Once upon a time on usenet Todd wrote: On 01/11/2015 05:56 PM, ~misfit~ wrote: Once upon a time on usenet Frank Miles wrote: On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:00:26 -0800, Todd wrote: Hi All, You knew this was going to happen eventually. A tomato plant grafted unto a potato plant. Both are Solanaceae (nightshade) and probably were the same plant years and years ago. http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/...hup-and-fries/ What I don't understand is how the plant would have enough power left in it to grow both potatoes and tomatoes. Must be the richest soil the plant could handle without burning the plant! Will wonders ever cease! -T Actually this has been done for years (no idea how successfully). Your favorite search engine can find many how-tos. Only thing slightly new is someone trying to commercialize the grafted plant. They've been available in garden centres here in New Zealand for the last few years at least. They're more of a gimick than a vaild food production method I think. What gets me the amount of power the plant would have to produce to create both large fruit and tubers at the same time. IIRC the advice given out by one supplier was to stack three old car tyres on top of each other and fill with soil / compost mix, insert a strong stake and grow in there. -- Shaun. Horrors! Did supplier know what kind of **** leaks out of car tires? Into your soil & thence into your food! Is this is not true, will someone point me to a scientific analysis?HB You could well be right. However it's quite common to use old car tyres as mini raised beds here (well I've seen it more than once and read 'green' articles advising it several times). Generally it's advised to 'weather' them for a while before use - or at least wash them very well. Hmmmm. I am looking forward the Shaun's amazing car tire tomatoes at the next county fair. I didn't say that I use car tyres as raised beds - just that I've had it suggested to me as an affordable option and have seen others using them. -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM." David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) All we need now is an office car tire tomato taste tester. I nominate Higgs. That will get even with her for that airline joke! |
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