TomTato - again

[veggiechicken]

I've just had an email from Thompson & Morgan about their Tomtato plants.

Did you see our TomTato® plant this evening on BBC One Tomorrow's Food programme? Here's your chance to buy yours from just £9.99.

From just one TomTato® plant you will harvest more than 500 sweet cherry tomatoes which will beat the best in any supermarket. Plus, you'll harvest on average 6 large potatoes perfect for boiling, mashing, roasting and making your very own chips.

Each plant is grafted by hand to create this unique double cropping feature. There's no genetic modification - it's an all-natural, safe process. Plants come with growing and aftercare instructions. (Not that you'll really need them - these plants are so easy to grow!) Grow them under cover or outdoors, in a patio pot, on your allotment or vegetable patch.

There have been several threads about these already but I can't recall whether anyone has told us how they grew!
If you did :
Did you harvest more than 500 tomatoes
and 6 large potatoes
and did you grow any outdoors and did they survive?

Here are some earlier threads :-

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ato_84857.html


http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ato_75271.html

[WendyC]

I got that email too! How many tomato seeds or seed potatoes can you buy for £9.99. More than one of each.

[solanaceae]

Here's one of my tomtato plants from 2014.

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...ml#post1288103

http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...e-100_2382.jpg

As you can see it was absolutely prolific! my other cherry tom plants didn't come anywhere close to growing as my tomatoes as the tomtato plant. Having said that I did use 10 litre pots for my other cherry toms but a 50 litre bag for my tomtatoes.

When I received the plant I noticed the instructions said you could remove all the potato leaves and it wouldn't affect the potato yield. So I did that (to reduce risk of diseases etc) but when I came to harvest the potatoes at the end of the season I found 3-4 per bag that were golfball sized no bigger and in one bag I couldn't even find any. If I had left the leaves on perhaps there would have been a decent yield. Anyway it was enough to put me off buying them for this year...

As for the tomatoes though VERY happy with the yield and flavour!

Edit: Looking back over my posts I can recall that the plants produced 1200 or more fruits per plant so that's 40-50 trusses, and they were a pretty decent size too. Couldn't beat the weather in '14, great stuff! And yes I grew mine outside and they survived all the way up til beginning of December that year lol.

[DannyK]

Beware catalogue puff! If they were that good everyone would be selling them. It's just a gimick to part you from your cash.

Anything from people who can describe Lady Boothby fuchsia as a climber needs to be taken with a large pinch of salt! Not that you'll need a lot for the Tomtatos!

[bearded bloke]

Not tried the product but I did watch the program & there were some very intesting bits, well worth a viewing on catch-up


BBC One - Tomorrow's Food

[NatalieCooke]

I bought one this year.
Waste of money, I think I paid £7.99.
It did grow quite a lot of small cherry tomatos and I had about 6 potato. Which all went green after a couple of days
Wouldnt bother again waste of greenhouse space.

[hamamelis]

Anyone tried grafting their own?

I'm not tempted to buy one at that price, but Frankensteining plants has a certain appeal...

[Aberdeenplotter]

I just don't see the point. Just because it can be done, it doesn't mean it has to be done.

[Potstubsdustbins]

^^^Like you AP I don't see the point. Another thing that bothers me they tell you to remove the haulm from the potato. Now I am not the brightest spark but I do know nature would not waste time and energy putting all that green growth on a spud plant without good reason. If it weren't necessary it wouldn't be there.

[veggiechicken]

Part 2
Grow your own Tomtato from seed!!

https://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...653373036.html

Even using one of T&M's photos to prove it!

PS, Its not even April 1st

[Guest]

^^^I like the item specifications An outdoor, bonsai, blooming plant, which is easy to grow....in the kitchen!

[Penellype]

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[veggiechicken]

You two sound dubious about this wonderful offer

How about apple trees from seed? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/20-S...15338e65&tpp=1

Constellation Virgo.
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[Guest]

^^^You missed.....style:annual