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Marp2
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Gardener's Twofer: First Ketchup 'N' Fries Plant Hits U.S. Market

‎02-12-2015 05:09 PM

Love growing potatoes and tomatoes? This spring, gardeners in the U.S. (and Europe) will be able to get both tuber and fruit from a single plant.

It's even got a catchy name: Ketchup 'n' Fries.

"It's like a science project," says Alice Doyle of SuperNaturals Grafted Vegetables, the company that's licensing the variety for U.S. markets from the U.K. company that developed it. "It's something that is really bizarre, but it's going to be fun [for gardeners] to measure and see how it grows."

This isn't a genetically modified organism but a plant of two different nightshades: the top of a cherry tomato grafted on to a white potato.

More: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/02/12/385459778/gardeners-twofer-first-ketchup-n-fries-plant-h...

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Re: Gardener's Twofer: First Ketchup 'N' Fries Plant Hits U.S. Market

‎03-04-2015 06:28 PM

I just saw this thread. How cool is this, Marp?

Can be ordered from among other sites, territorialseed.com

Grafted Ketchup 'n' Fries™

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Re: Gardener's Twofer: First Ketchup 'N' Fries Plant Hits U.S. Market

‎03-04-2015 06:32 PM

I am so trying this!

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Re: Gardener's Twofer: First Ketchup 'N' Fries Plant Hits U.S. Market

‎03-04-2015 07:26 PM

Those Tomatoes look YUMMIE!

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Re: Gardener's Twofer: First Ketchup 'N' Fries Plant Hits U.S. Market

‎03-05-2015 01:59 PM

I'm very tempted to try these. I have clay soil so prefer to use containers for as many things as possible so double duty works for me.

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