Florida Urban Homestead

Sometimes I see something that reminds me of a line in a movie that most of us have probably seen, “Jurassic Park”. It’s the seen where the good Doctor Ian Malcolm says “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”  This line came back to me today as I read about Grafting, no not trees, but tomato plants.  It seems as though someone got the idea of grafting tomato plants to anything the could think of in the Solanaceae family that includes Eggplant, Tomatoes, Peppers, potatoes, and even tobacco!  Yes you can now have tomatoes grow above ground with potatoes underground.  But is it a good idea?  I’m not sure.  Should we get people used to getting cherry tomatoes off potato plants?  Potatoes produce cherry tomato-like fruit that even ripens red but it is poison!  Ok, ok, I know that is a reach for the horrors of grafting but you should Google this stuff.  Pour little tomato plants, so young and fresh next to their little eggplant buddies, and then  WHACK, OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!  Oh the horror, I shiver.  I know I don’t think twice about grafted fruit trees, but this is just, uh, odd.  Oh who knows, perhaps it is the wave of the future and we will all look back some day and laugh.  ”Oh can you believe we used to grow tomatoes on tomato plants?  I mean really, you couldn’t even smoke the leaves!”  It could be that way some day, but a part of me hopes not.

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