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A horticultural company in the U.K. is a revolutionary new plant that both tomatoes and potatoes. It is the TomTato and up to 500 sweet, cherry-sized tomatoes and a healthy crop of white potatoes. Britain's Daily Mail newspaper you can now get ketchup and fries from the same plant. The company, Thompson and Morgan, research into the possibility of together tomato and potato plants over 15 years ago. Paul Hansord, horticultural director at the company, the great thing about the plant is that it is not genetically in any way. He said he knew it was possible to graft the two plants together because they to the same plant species.

Mr Hansord how the commercial concept . He said: "At the start, we it'd just be a novelty thing to do. But as the trials developed, we what we had produced was really high yield, had fantastic flavour and could be commercially for the first time. The TomTato is being as "veg plot in a pot". Hansord said it can be inside or outside, in a large flower pot or in a bag. It is at around $25 on the company's website. Britain's Telegraph newspaper said: "'Double-crop' plants like the TomTato could be extremely useful in the future, as they populations more food in smaller spaces."