The Kenny (aka "Winchester Golf Course" and "Country Club" tomato) finally has made an appearance in our garden this year, thanks to a very generous donation from Mischelle Hodgkin this spring.

The Kenny is named for Winchester native and resident Kenny Phillips, a former naval gunner's mate aboard the USS California and employee of the Marine Logistics Base in Macon, Georgia. Mr. Phillips worked for the Winchester Country Club Golf Course and for many years grew the tomato in a plot just off the course. In 2006, the year he passed away, Phillips gave Will Hodgkin, Mischelle's husband, an aspirin bottle containing the seeds of The Kenny. Mischelle has grown them out from that first gift of seed and was kind enough to share a Kenny with me.

Vive Kenny!
The Kenny was heeled in on May 24, fed twice, and mulched on May 29, 2012.