Hi Rebecca,

I haven't grown them, but it is listed in the Seed Savers Exchange:
- medium-sized slicer, 3" globe shaped fruit
- good tasting fruit
- perfect slicer to eat with bread
- great flavor and disease resistance.
- high in vitamin C
- survived every seasonal disease and insect this year, produced abundantly and tasted great.

Over the years I've thought of growing it as I've never seen a negative remark about this variety. Sounds like a wonderful main crop tomato.

George
Tahlequah, OK

Rebecca,

I thought I'd just mention that if you go to the Growing Tomatoes Forum, link at the top of this first page, that's where heirloom tomato varieties are discussed about 99% of the time.

it may also be that your Brandywine was last to succumb to Late Blight, and I mean P infestans specifically, b'c it's a potato leaf variety.

Person Sprayless turns out not to be that tolerant of any diseases that are most common for most tomato growers and was originally from Argentina and first offered by the now defunct Gleckler's seed co way back in the 1940's

So sometime in the future you might wish to do some trials and see if the potato leaf (PL) varieties do better for you than do regular leaf (RL) varieties.

Carolyn

Carolyn, there is a link between potato leaf foliage and disease resistance?! I never heard that before!

Actually, except for fusarium at the seedling stage, early and late blight, I can't say I've ever experienced much in the line of tomato diseases.

George