The Last Post Of The Day,

hopefully you did not get 'April Fooled!',

going back to the ‘TomTato' what you thought it was a April Fools gag? shame on you, as if I would do such a thing! the plant is actually 100 percent natural, and not genetically modified as one would expect, TomTato, a.k.a ‘veg plot in a pot’, was developed through high-tech grafting by Thompson and Morgan, a horticultural firm based in the town of Ipswich, in Suffolk, England, although similar plants have been created in the UK before, this is the first time someone has managed to produce a commercially viable version, according to Guy Barter of the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), taste was a real problem with past varieties, but the TomTato seems to have hit the jackpot, “We’re looking at it with real interest because Thompson and Morgan are a really reputable firm with a lot to lose, but I wouldn’t rule out that it could be a very valuable plant to them,” he explained, “In the past we’ve never had any faith in the plants – they’ve not been very good – but grafting has come on leaps and bounds in recent years.”

and as if to prove it is real, here is the video, Thompson and Morgan director Paul Hansord said that TomTato is a result of a decade’s worth of hard work, He first got the idea for the plant 15 years ago, when he visited a garden in the US where someone had planted a potato under a tomato as a joke, that’s when he realised that the two could be grafted together because they belong to the same family, He has been working on the tomato ever since, and seems to have finally perfected it, “It has been very difficult to achieve because the tomato stem and the potato stem have to be the same thickness for the graft to work,” he said, but after much trial and error, and with the help of grafting specialists, he managed to hit upon a method of producing a variety of potato with just the right-sized shoot, the TomTato was unveiled in September, and is available to gardeners across UK at £14.99 ($24) per 3.5-inch plant, it is expected to appeal to people who don’t have much space in their gardens to grow a large variety of plants, it can be grown inside or outside, in a large patio or a 40-litre bag, I wonder when they will become available in Thailand?