New FrankenFood

AllanMisner

http://www.fastcoexist.com/3018867/meet-the-tomtato-the-worlds-first-combination-tomato-potato-plant

Check this out!

KarenisPaleo

If that's real, it is awesome

Akimajuktuq

Very interesting. Not GMO at least. If a person had limited garden space, then it might make sense. lol

Dragonwolf

Might be my tomato-growing salvation (I've had bad luck growing tomatoes the past couple of years).

Fun with grafting! Though, while it certainly is a frakenplant, I don't know that it technically qualifies as frankenfood, since the fruit and roots are separate from each other.

homesweeths

The funny thing is that gardening conventional wisdom says not to grow tomatoes in the same bed where potatoes have grown, and vice versa. You're supposed to keep those plants separate because they share the same diseases, or something like that.

Dragonwolf

The funny thing is that gardening conventional wisdom says not to grow tomatoes in the same bed where potatoes have grown, and vice versa. You're supposed to keep those plants separate because they share the same diseases, or something like that.

They're both part of the nightshade family, so growing them side by side increases the risk of losing them to the same diseases. Being the same family is probably why they can be grafted together.