"DIY TomTato - Grafting Tomatoes onto Potatoes 2014"

I read somewhere (probably T&M site, if you are looking for it ...) that their biggest problem was sorting out so that the rootstock shoot was the same diameter as the scion.

Wouldn't it be easier just to pay the £15 for a plant from T&M and then keep the tubers to plant the following year?

At the very least, all joking apart, they would give you the right rootstock.

No idea what the scion is, but they talk about very high Brix level (although maybe its a normal level for varieties like Sungold, and probably even Gardeners Delight, so maybe that's what they used)

If we are all off on a grafting jaunt (GC Challenge for 2014??) what might we try?

I'd like a Wisteria walk - I'm tempted by Wisteria floribunda 'Macrobotrys' because the racemes are so long - 4' apparently. Not sure if that would work for a pergola as you wouldn't be able to walk under it! so I though perhaps to train it along either side of a walkway, so you walked between "walls" of racemes. I've got a couple of plants (bought in the sale last year), which I could use for Scions. I wonder if I can get rootstock from somewhere? I presume they are just seed grown.


"60 days from grafting" - Wow!
http://www.wisteria.it/storia-e.htm

 

It will be a case of getting the timings right for both to get a scion match which will be fun...worth a shot

You've got to give it a go with the Wisteria Kristen....

 

Why don't we call it "What Jobs Are We Doing in the Garden Today... MK4.. 2014" ?

This thread is pre-groaned, and I'm on my way to get my coat

 

"The Garden" (Nov 2013) says "Amateur gardeners have been grafting them [Potatoes and Tomatoes] together for years" and that T&M's 15 years of development has been to get a means of grafting them affordably, including finding suitable varieties ...

So there ought to be a wealth of information out there about how the amateurs have been doing it for so long and what varieties they used, eh?

The article also confirms that the Kiwis are using Gardeners Delight and Agria.

 

I wonder if there is a 'Cuetatoe'

 

......or you could call it a Pocumber.

 

I like it

 

Well my tomatoes are coming on just waiting for my Potatoes to get a move on ,they're just emerging from the soil...i'm looking forward to giving the Tomtatoes a go

 

T&M are always looking for a selling point, climbing Fucshias, climbing Petunias, black plants that are really purple etc, nothing, in my experience of them is as advertised.

 

"Blue" Fuchsias

 

At least I 'splet' one word right!

 

I can never spell Fuchsia - but my browser can <SmartArseMode=Off >

 

Well I've made a start at growing a Tomtato

Rooster Potato with Manx Marvel,Golden sunrise and Gardeners delight scions,luckily I have a few chances so we'll see how we go

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solanine