I'm going to change beds for the tomatoes this year, but I may need some that are fungus resistant.

Mountain Merit probably has the most resistance to fungal disease. It has high resistance to late blight and some resistance to early blight. However, fungal disease seems to vary year to year. I do not know about the taste, but should be at least as good as early girl. Might want to grow a couple of mountain merit as a back up along with your other regular varieties.

nancyjane, Your answer to the following question might help me with a serious research project I have been working on for several years. Do you make your own compost and if so do you add kitchen left overs, peelings, etc. to your compost? Hopefully you will follow up on this question. Thanks.

In my current garden I do not. Living in town, now, I don't want to add anything that might attract rats.

The bed that my tomatoes were in last year were brand new and filled with vege soil from a reputable source.

In my former garden beds out in the country, I had hawks and owls the took care of the majority of the vermin in the area and I did add vege and fruit scraps, egg shells, coffee grounds, leaves, aged goat poop etc. and don't recall having many fungal type troubles. Hope this helps with your research.

Years ago I ordered a bunch of tomato seeds claiming to be resistant to fungus but only one stood out as resistant, productive with excellent flavor. It's called Mountain Magic and I've grown them every year since because it does so well. Some of the others were resistant but had low yield and/or just didn't taste good.

Grown side by side with other varieties Mountain magic is the first to bear fruit and doesn't stop until the frost kills it, and long after all the other varieties have turned to dust. I'm going to order Mountain Merit seeds to try this year as @garybeaumont_gw suggested and hope they do well for a larger fruit.

More on Mountain Magic :

It's a smaller at about 2 oz's but the yield makes up for the size and has great flavor.

My brother counts every tomato picked from his plant and last year he hit 998 perfect tomatoes, year before 780. I don't count mine but I could count the cracked tomatoes on my fingers and are rare to get. Made 30 pints of salsa with only the Mountain magic tomatoes and the best salsa we've ever eaten. I got hit hard last year from fungus on all my other varieties but the Mountain magic was untouched.

nancyjane, I have another question for you that might aid my research project .

When you planted your tomatoes and other types of plants in the box garden under discussion perhaps you added a commercial fertilizer for extra nutrition. Here is my question...did you possibly also add some type of organics such as crushed egg shells for calcium or coffee grounds for nitrogen or banana skins for potassium? And I will ask that anyone reading this who might be using these types of organics in compost or at planting time and find themselves suddenly dealing with severe blight problems to detail your experience. Thanks....!

I did not on the 2 new beds, as I had a brand new batch of soil in the 2 new beds.

I probably did on the older bed at some point.

The tomatoes were planted in the new bed.

As I said before, I am now living in town and don't want to attract rats, so I don't add food scraps besides coffee grounds to my compost.

I no longer have cats and hawks and owls to take care of the rodents.

F1 Hybrids

Mountain Magic

Mountain Merrit

Mountain Rouge

Brandywise

OP

Matt's Wild Cherry

Wapsipinicon Peach

Lemon Drop

Primabella

Sunviva

Galahad F1 hase very good fungal resistants.

Damsel F1 is also very good.

And dont forget:

Resibella OP

Rondobella OP

Primabella op

Sunviva OP

West Virginia 17A OP (Mountaineer Pride)

All have the best blight resistans there is.