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No. 070 · heirloom

Eva Purple Ball

Eva Purple Ball is an indeterminate heirloom slicer with deep pink, smooth uniform globe fruit. It ripens in about 75 days.

Typeslicer
Habitindeterminate
Days to maturity75
Fruit size4 to 6 oz
Colordeep pink, smooth uniform globe
Difficultyeasy

Flavor

Described as smooth and well balanced, a clean sweet-acid flavor on a flawlessly round fruit. This is the recurring catalog and grower description, not a measured claim.

Origin

An 1800s German heirloom said to come from the Black Forest region, brought to the United States by the Joseph J. Bratka family of New Jersey.

What it does well

  • Smooth, blemish-free, perfectly round pink fruit
  • Good disease resistance, including some tolerance to late blight
  • Productive and relatively early

Where it frustrates

  • Indeterminate vines need support
  • Medium-sized fruit rather than a large beefsteak

Like Eva Purple Ball, but...

Sold out, or after a change? The closest alternatives, and how they differ.

Brandywinebut a smaller, smoother, more disease-tolerant pinkCherokee Purplebut a clean pink globe rather than a dusky beefsteak

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