Stump of the world

Description

potato leaf, medium to high yield of large pink beefsteaks, 10-20 oz, very good to excellent sweet flavor, small core, one of our favorite tomatoes. HISTORY: Introduced by the legendary Mr. Ben T. Quisenberry, who died in 1986 at age 99. Mr. Quisenberry lived in and operated a tiny mail-order seed company called Big Tomato Gardens out of a small building that had been an old post office in Syracuse, Ohio. He printed his own seed packets, complete with mottoes, on an old printing press.
Before settling on Stump of the World, Mr. Quisenberry called this variety Big Ben. It is believed that Stump of the World was a selection of Big Ben. Early seeds that he sold would often produce both regular and potato-leaf seedlings. Today, Stump of the World produces only potato-leaved seedlings.
Mr. Quisenberry was a very religious man. It is believed that the name Stump of the World is a bibilical reference to Jesse’s stump – Isaiah 6:13 and Isaish 1:11.