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    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
    Last edited by veggiechicken; 23-11-2015, 11:13 PM.

  • #2
    I got that email too! How many tomato seeds or seed potatoes can you buy for £9.99. More than one of each.

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    • #3
      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.
      Last edited by solanaceae; 24-11-2015, 09:15 AM.

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      • #4
        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!
        Riddlesdown (S Croydon)

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        • #5
          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
          He who smiles in the face of adversity,has already decided who to blame

          Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity

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          • #6
            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.
            @thecluelessgardener

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            • #7
              Anyone tried grafting their own?

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

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              • #8
                I just don't see the point. Just because it can be done, it doesn't mean it has to be done.

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                • #9
                  ^^^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.
                  Potty by name Potty by nature.

                  By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


                  We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

                  Aesop 620BC-560BC

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                  • #10
                    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

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                    • #11
                      ^^^I like the item specifications An outdoor, bonsai, blooming plant, which is easy to grow....in the kitchen!

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                      • #12
                        Function:Sterilization
                        Applicable Constellation:Virgo

                        A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP. - Leonard Nimoy

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                        • #13
                          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.
                          Function - Beautifying

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                          • #14
                            ^^^You missed.....style:annual

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