Another suggestion would be to pick up Dr. Carolyn J. Male's book, "100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden." You may be able to find it at your public library or at most book stores. Also on Amazon. She disscusses all aspects of growing tomatoes, including disease resistant ones.

Best wishes,

Mary

Yes, some comments about disease tolerances, but only as regards what I see in my zone 5 upstate NY garden, with a few other observations made.

jackman, the inmportant question is what diseases are you talking about?

The most common tomato diseases are the foliage diseases and no tomato variety, hybrid or heirloom has good tolerance to those. Almost ALL of us have to fight them.

But if you're talking about systemic diseases such as Fusarium, Verticillium, Southern Blight, Tomato Spotted Wilt Disease and on and on, that's a totally different story.

So which diseases are you referring to that are a problem for you?

And hopefully you know, or if you don't for future reference, there's a Forum where tomtoes are discussed all the time, and that's the Tomato Forum, where heirloom varieties are discussed, link at the top of this page.

But we can continue here for now.

Carolyn