How I Grew Potatoes And Tomatoes On The Same Plant

I thought it would be fun to graft a tomato plant onto a potato plant to create one plant that produces potatoes underneath the soil and tomatoes on the top. I grew this over Spring and Summer, so now I've put together a start to finish gardening video to share the whole process!

In this video we'll cover how to grow tomatoes from seed, how to start potato plants, as well as the full process of how to graft plants together using the cleft graft and whip and tongue graft techniques. I'll share lessons along the way of this fun experiment so you can learn with me and have a go yourself at growing and creating one of these Frankenstein or frankenplants. Or should we call it a Pomato, or maybe a Tomtato?

Thanks so much for watching :)

GRAFTING BOOK Recommendation from the video:
Grafting and Budding: A Practical Guide for Fruit and Nut Plants and Ornamentals

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Tomato Ketchup Sauce Recipe:
(please note that this only makes a small amount, so feel free to double or triple the recipe depending on the amount of tomatoes you have).
800g washed tomatoes
3/4 cup white vinegar
1/4 cup sugar. Feel free to reduce this quantity a little.
1/3 tsp chilli powder or cayenne pepper (your choice)
Pinch of salt
Method:
Roughly chop tomatoes and place in a pot with 1/4 cup water. Cook over medium, high heat stirring until tomatoes have cooked, softened and broken down (approx. 5 mins).
In the pot, blend tomatoes well with a stick blender, then strain the puree through a sieve to remove seeds and skins.
Put the tomato puree back in the pot along with all other ingredients and simmer on medium heat for 15-20 mins, stirring until thick.
To test if ready, place a few drops onto a cold plate. Let the drops cool and if there is no water coming out of the sauce then it's ready.
Let cool and place into bottle or jar. Store in fridge and it should last a few months (if you don't eat it all first😉)

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0:00 Intro
0:23 Starting Tomatoes & Potatoes from Seed
1:20 Grafting
4:14 After graft care
5:25 Planting the "pomatoes"
6:21 Unwrapping the grafts
6:49 Worm tea and flowers
7:02 Tasting the first tomatoes
8:24 My favorite tomato variety
9:00 Are there any potatoes
10:31 Making ketchup and fries
11:55 Checkout my Sunflower Uses video :)

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[TheKiwiGrower]

I hope you enjoyed this little experiment! I've linked the Grafting knife & the book I recommended in the description :)
Thanks so much for joining me and I hope you have a great rest of your day!
-Kalem

[lyonheart]

Lol that video contained everything all in one, seed sowing, grafting, planting out, harvesting, cooking recipe and a tasting 😲😲

[urmomshuse]

From a science teacher - the reason they're not growing as much as you expected is because the plant has a huge demand on its limited resources. It has to produce fruit, which are resource intensive, and find energy to store away in the tubers (potato) which is also resource intensive. You'd have to do some intensive breeding to get your harvest to be better.

[GyroCannon]

Considering that the plant had to split all its energy between two different energy stores, the fact that you yielded some of both is really amazing. Goes to show that your gardening knowledge is awesome because you fought a real uphill battle with nature here!

[thomaskrafft]

Well done!! We did this in Horticulture lab and found that while you do grow both tomatoes and potatoes, it turns out that you get about half the normal amount of each. Apparently there is only so much photosynthate to go around. (I was the only student, however, to ever return the next semester and present our prof with both a tomato and potato!😉)

[edim]

Theoretically you could graft multiple different nightshades and have a single plant that grows potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and even egg plants, so you can make an entire dinner off of produce grown on a single plant. Also if you can get your hands on fresh tobacco leafs they're perfect for grafting nightshades- tobacco is a nightshade too and wrapping the cut in its leafs helps the healing process.

[ChinthakaRathnayake]

As a kid I used to graft plants in my home garden. I remember a teacher telling me that this could be done. Your video brought it all back and I’m stoked to do some grafting!

[johnwilliams]

Really love how you don't leave us hanging, and tell the whole story. Worth the wait.😁👍👍

[FireAngelOfLondon]

This is not just a fascinating experiment it's also a very well produced video. I'm glad you edited it into one video telling the whole story rather than stringing it out into a series as many would have done. As someone allergic to both potatoes and tomatoes the final result was something that would kill me, but the experiment was still fascinating.

[dethaddr]

Problem is... you can go for fruit or you can go for roots, but nature seldom ever lets both happen unless things are exactly right. Nice work on getting some of both, but I was expecting the potatoes to be small and few and that's where it ended up. There's a possibility if you really nailed the potatoes with Potash early on and the tomato with Phosphorous and Nitrogen (and again after the graft) that you could get a killer harvest from both ends.

[erdafska]

My heart melted when he said if he could share some with us he would. Keep making the top quality content

[justjaguar]

Grafting is so cool!! In 10th grade, we had a week of *forestry practice*, where we grafted domesticated pear and apple scions to wild apple rootstock. Our guide/helper said it's more beneficial, because the wild plants are sturdier and can survive more easily. It's been 3 years now, and I wonder how they're doing!

[theexposer]

The BEST gardening video ever from start (seed) + grafting to harvest all in one video. Short, compact to the point and no BS! Thank you!

[skipgeel]

There are two kinds of tomato: determinate and indeterminate. The tomatoes you used were determinate, and will always be a bush. You want the indeterminate size tomato, which just keeps growing, as long as the weather is nice.

[josheliwa]

its so cool what you can do with nature, I think I found my new answer to "what do you wanna do when you grow up"

[uxtalzon]

You know it's a success when you keep dropping one. He didn't even know what variety was growing and just grew to harvest. Awesome. I gotta try this.

[alastairleung]

That was wild. I thought this was an April fools video as I've never heard of anything being grafted with a potato and then you turn this into one of the most comprehensive planting videos ever all the way from seed to grafting to growing to harvesting and then even to cooking

[neilstrongarm]

You have blown my mind, sir. You have made one of the best videos I have ever watched on Youtube. Well done.

[Mowgi]

The amount of time and effort you put into your videos really shows, such a pleasure to watch. And what a cool concept!

[Aleksa_Milicevic]

Given your first name literally means “graft” in Serbo-Croatian, this rather intriguing experiment comes as no surprise 😅 In all seriousness, fantastic job with the tomato-potato crossover; I've found your videos nothing short of informative and captivating. The amount of effort you put into each project, as well as your passion for all things horticulture really do come through 🙂 A massive _green thumb_ up – keep up the awesome work! 👍