Garden idea: Someone here needs to grow this

[Jenise]

http://www.territorialseed.com/product/grafted-tomtato-ketchup-n-fries/new_for_spring_2015

Sort of strange, sort of ingenious. I'd have never thought of such a thing.

To me this looks like a very dangerous thing to do. Tomatoes and potatoes are both plants in the nightshade family, and for both species the parts we eat (fruit in the case of tomatoes, dormant tuber in the case of potatoes) are the only parts of their respective plants that are safe to eat--everything else is highly toxic. Grafting one nightshade species onto the root system of another can be dangerous. There was a case some decades ago of a gardener who grafted tomatoes onto the roots of jimsonweed, another member of the nightshade family. The toxic alkaloids from the roots ended up in the tomatoes and his family died from eating them. I'd be very concerned about the same thing happening when grafting onto potato roots.

-Paul W.

To me this looks like a very dangerous thing to do. Tomatoes and potatoes are both plants in the nightshade family, and for both species the parts we eat (fruit in the case of tomatoes, dormant tuber in the case of potatoes) are the only parts of their respective plants that are safe to eat--everything else is highly toxic. Grafting one nightshade species onto the root system of another can be dangerous. There was a case some decades ago of a gardener who grafted tomatoes onto the roots of jimsonweed, another member of the nightshade family. The toxic alkaloids from the roots ended up in the tomatoes and his family died from eating them. I'd be very concerned about the same thing happening when grafting onto potato roots.

-Paul W.

It would give new meaning to fried green tomatoes, wouldn't it.

Blows my mind! GMOs freak me out; not sure what to think of this!

Tomatoes and potatoes are both plants in the nightshade family, and for both species the parts we eat (fruit in the case of tomatoes, dormant tuber in the case of potatoes) are the only parts of their respective plants that are safe to eat--everything else is highly toxic.

Well, fruit and leaves with tomatoes. Harold McGee debunked the popular belief that tomato leaves are toxic several years ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/dining/29curi.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0