Which disease(s) do you have: Early Blight, Late Blight, something else, or just disease in general?
http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/DiagnosticKeys/TomKey.html

Hi Olivia,

I think it doesn't really matter if you are referring to Early Blight, Late Blight, or some other disease in this case. I believe you have made several small changes to your tomato gardening that have added up to a concurrence that of conditions that make your plants more susceptible to almost any desease. (Although there isn't any thing you can do about the weather.)

Your plants have more contact with each other due to a change in support combined with stopping the practice of pruning, less air flow, and lots of rain.

By itself using Florida Weave would not have contributed to an increased disease load, but I think since you stopped pruning and put the tomatoes that are more affected near your barn, you should have spaced them further apart.

I use the Florida Weave method of support in my garden, but I space my plants three feet apart and they are in an area where nothing blocks the wind. I don't pruse, but do try to keep the lower leaves from contacting the soil. By the end of the season (if the weather is cooperative) I have several nearly solid hedges of tomatoes that are about 65 feet in length.

Personally, I don't think the fact that your are growing new to you heirloom and open pollinated tomatoes has any bearing on the issue.

Betsy

All I keep thinking about is that song from Salt & Pepa
"Lets talk about sex baby, lets talk about and me, lets talk about all the good things....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzfo4txaQJA

Anyway, that's not why I posted. I posted because I have been doing my own experiment to no control.

I have 1 plant (dont know the type), but it started with Early Blight. I spray fertilome triple action + on it. and it has grown healthy, but still has yet to produce 1 tomato.

It has had blossom drop (weather in atlanta is high 90s). Its in a pot 3 gallon, and I have 2 stakes and a mini Florida weave between the stakes. He sits all by himself on my patio.

I continue to nurture it even though it doesn't do anything but grow.

It's in a pot with the same soil I have used in my raised beds that are doing GREAT.. I let a sucker branch into another plant and I am thinking of cutting the main plant and letting that sucker grow now without early blight.

Anyone have any ideas of what I can do with it to learn something from it?