I never got round to do the photos!!??
Well..what can I tell you...? It wasn't totally waste of time and it certainly was interesting experiment. BUT, my decision to use bush tomatoes did work from tomatoes' point of view, they cropped fine, the issue was that I didn't realize how small variety they were. My fault...should have read the packets more carefully. I actually used more of 'dwarf' type rather than 'ordinary' determinate bush. Tops didn't grown any taller than 1 1/2 ft. ...and I spaced the plants too wide thinking they were going to bush out ..they didn't need all the space nor the fancy support cages
And then the potatoes..I'm thinking that the small tops did restrict the growth down bellow...I did get spuds but not very many per plant..but, they were perfectly edible
So what did I learn?
1. crafting was quite straight forward
2. perhaps more stronger growing tomato variety if in need larger spud yield OR if still using these really low growing varieties, plant more closely!
I still have one tomato plant alive..signs of blight is there but I just picked few 'clean' tomatoes. They don't taste or look great anymore for being so late in the season but I'm not too picky.
I might do the same craft again next year...but it would be interesting to plant it in quite dense row using normal seed potato spacing and let the plants support each other. Then the space used would really be worth while..providing blight will not spoil the fun.
If my plants would grow in similar fashion next year, yielding similar amounts...I would think of the tomato crop as the 'main' one and any spuds as nice bonus.