Tomato 'Eva Purple Ball'

One of eight tomato varieties grown from seed this year. Kind of idled for a long time when put in the ground, but once it started growin...Read Moreg, holy crap! I've never seen a more dense, thick tomato plant. It is outgrowing a 60" tall by 30" diameter concrete mesh cage.

Eva Purple was the first to ripen, as well. Fruits turn to peach then pale red, and actually fall off by themselves when ready. They will continue to ripen on the counter to a deep pinky red. No idea why "purple" is in the name. Firm, spherical, and roughly tennis ball size. Uniform color and completely smooth all around.

Delicious flavor! The juicy flesh is red with a watermelon hue. Steady, but not "prolific" producer... I think. You really have to dig through the foliage to see how many tomatoes are hidden inside. Plus, it is still putting out flowers. Will be growing this again.

We grew this tomato during the summer or 2015 in Salt Lake City. We had several weeks of triple digit heat early in the summer and then ...Read Morethe weather was moderate and dry the rest of the growing season. This plant was a bonus plant included in an order of heirloom plants and thus got a non-ideal placement in my garden. It was shaded, to some extent, throughout the season by larger hybrids that were probably a bit too close. Despite all that and getting a late start in production it was tied for flavor champion in my garden. Every tomato it produced was perfectly sweet and juicy, the exact way that I prefer a tomato. My wife also loved this fruit. The plant had no disease throughout the entire season. It produced at an average rate once it started producing, and had it received more sun, I suspect its yields would have been better. We recorded 29 usable tomatoes and it took a sluggish 91 days from transplant to produce its first tomato (atypical for this variety). It will be a permanent fixture in my garden due to its superior taste, disease resistance, and lovely fruit. It will get one of the prime spots in my 2016 garden and will likely get multiple plantings.

I've only had one bush of this so far, because the critters in the yard always seem to destroy the purple ball seedlings more than anythi...Read Moreng else. Although I didn't get a ton of tomatoes out of it, it was pretty good, and I will try to grow more to be sure. As others have said, the fruit are quite uniform and attractive. I just wish they were a little larger. Update: Tried again 2014, bush was finally pretty productive but all of the tomatoes were kind of small, a little bigger than golf ball size. Very flavorful though, with some zing to them. A good salad tomato.

The Eva Purple Ball tomatoes were possibly the prettiest deep pink/red tomatoes I have ever seen. Just beautiful and so delicious. No c...Read Moreracks, no bugs, no problems. Even through a long, dry, hot summer with out of town trips it did wonderfully. When it was wilted it bounced back just hours after watering. Loved it.