Do you practice crop rotation? I rotate my crops, but I mostly grow tomatoes in buckets or pots of potting mix, and it seems to help keep the disease down. Hubby still grows his in the garden plots and rotates on 3 year cycle.
I love a big mortgage lifter for a one slice covers the bread or bun sandwich. The grape cluster type - IIRC sweet million, for snacking. Roma for a salad or sauce/cooking.
We accidentally ended up with a splendid cross: “Sweetie” cherry tomato and “Yellow Pear” turned into a mix of the best properties of both. The size of the pear (about 1 1/4 inches) and the sweetness of the cherry with the tart of the pear. It’s my absolute favorite for in a salad, split in half.
For eating, I have some seed from my grandmother that is splendid, though I have no idea what it is. I just keep a couple aside every winter, and plant them in the spring. They are about 9” tall now, I am going to start hardening them off in a week or so, as our “official” last frost is the 24th of April.
I am waiting that long because several years ago I had my ‘maters out, and the day AFTER the official “last frost”, we gpot a hard frost. Lost 20-ish plants, several varieties. I learned my lesson!
I have not practiced crop rotation. Good idea. I have thought about getting big tubs from my brother who raises beef. They are perfect size for tomatoes. I have a small lot in the suburbs bit getting out of there soon
Need me some room for large garden and try to improve position in feeding myself. Wouldn’t mind having a head or two of beef