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SQFT: Open-pollination and tomatoes

Hi y'all!
I have been reading the different posts about open-pollination with great
interest. I would *really* like to raise heirloom tomatoes especially,
but also other veggies this year and save the seed, but here are a couple
of my reservations about doing it:

1. You will instantly detect that I still may not have all the facts
straight about cross-pollination, etc. as you read my other points, but I
*am* trying to learn and understand. :-)

2. In this part of the country, we have *lots* of trouble raising
tomatoes that aren't disease resistant. I've had the best success with
Celebrity and with Sweet Million tomatoes. Since we can much of our
harvest for use the rest of the year, we really don't want to have a
small harvest. Could I continue to raise Celebrity and Sweet Million but
still have a variety like Brandywine? I figure that I couldn't save the
seeds from the Celeb. or from the S. Million, but would they affect the
Brandywine? I could put them about 50 yds apart, but from I've read, that
may not be sufficient.

3. Because of our problems here with disease (our climate in the summer
is very hot and very humid), would Brandywines even make it? If not, what
heirloom variety might and what would be a good source for it?

I know that some of you are really experienced in all of this and I would
appreciate any advice, and probably others would too. I know that I've
talked mainly about tomatoes, but that has been one of our main garden
crops, which last year I grew successfully in a kind of sqft method. I
caged the tomatoes, but in groups of ten cages -- two rows of five cages,
but all right up against each other. I hope that my description of it
makes sense to you. :-)

Thanks in advance!

Rob Loach in Greenville SC  --<--{@
R*@juno.com
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