Description

Eva St. Wendell Tomato

This was developed by Bill Jeffers which is a cross between Big Beef and Eva’s Purple Ball. A heavy yielding plant for a indeterminate. These are a mid-season tomato plant with regular leaf foliage. These plants that produce orangish/red beefsteaks with weights from 5-8oz. They have a juicy but acidic and sweet flavor to them also being meaty. Would be excellent as a slicer, salsa, canning and garnishes. Be sure to watch our review of Eva St. Wendell Tomato on YouTube. Also, check out other great tasting tomatoes from all the other Breeders we carry.

Here is Mr. Jeffers’ history of this segregation’s development of this tomato –
“I received F3 seeds from John Beidler of Connecticut, and have worked with my own line for several years, beginning with a medium size (5 ounce, more or less), pink, sweet/balanced tomato. I continued to select for round, pink tomatoes, tennis ball size, thin skin, productive, balanced flavor similar to Balkan type heart tomatoes is the closest comparison to flavor I can think of.”
“The name is derived from the fact that while I was county surveyor, my chief deputy grew several of my plants in composted horse manure out on her property in St. Wendell, Indiana, a small, unincorporated town in the northwestern corner of Vanderburgh County, Indiana. She has a horse rescue operation out there. The examples of this line she grew were larger than those I grew in my garden, and I ended up using her selection for my seeds at F5.”