Pink, symmetrical, and round, the perfect tomato, Vinson Watts was kept alive by Mr. Watts for 52 years before the Berea, Kentucky famous seed saver family, Michael Best got ahold of them. Every summer he meticulously saved seeds of those special tomatoes that kept the highest flavor, most disease resistant, large and bulbous and exquisite quality. Berea natives renown his fruit from 1956 through 1967 and later in Morehead from 1968 through March of 2008 when he died at the age of 78. His tomato is now highly regarded in the cult of tomato cultivation. Vinson Watts is a hefty heirloom tomato for early planting! Noticeable fungal resilience, with progressive growth in the doldrum rainy gray days. Also reliable under a frost blanket without heat for those early pink greenhouse harvest. Here you have a fruit that resembles the famous and renowned Brandywine. However, plant structure is not the same, it is a vigorous vine, similar to the way Cherokee grows. Leaves generally are fine texture, with very few potato leaf plants, assisting the plant in high humidity, low and extreme light situations. Reduced ridge stalks, capable of being woven and manipulated across a variety of trellis and support structures. Fruit is delicious, rather than having orange, pink, subtleties as Brandywine does, lime-green and yellow tinge the fringe of the shoulders. Unique heart shapes occur often! Perfectly round, symmetrically plump fruits dapple laden vines. Yields are heavy. Growth is faster coming than Brandywine. Vinson Watts' tomato is a work of art, or should I say heart. I find plenty of heart shaped tomato blossom’s amongst the plants year after year, something to remember him by, and not often found in German Johnson, or Brandywine.
