Grow with KARE: Blight-resistant tomato varieties

There are two types of blight.

Early blight is most common and occurs almost every year in Minnesota. It affects the leaves and stem of the plant. The fungus that causes early blight thrives in warm and wet conditions.

Late blight is even more destructive but isn't reported every year in Minnesota. It affects the leaves, stem and fruit of the plant and can kill a plant within days. The fungus that causes late blight thrives in cool and wet conditions.

Keeping plants healthy with proper spacing, fertilizing and watering the roots and not the leaves can defend against blight. But planting blight-resistant varieties from the start is also a great idea. Recent research from the University of Cornell is the go to for identifying blight-resistant tomatoes.

This is a list of varieties that are resistant to both early and late blight.

This is a list of varieties that are resistant to both early and late blight.

Cherry

ˇ      Matt's Wild cherry

ˇ      Mountain Magic

ˇ      Super Sweet 100

Slicer

ˇ      Defiant

ˇ      Iron Lady

ˇ      Mountain Merit

ˇ      Old Brooks

ˇ      Stellar

Plum

ˇ      Indigo Rose

ˇ      Juliet

ˇ      Plum Regal

Heirloom

ˇ      Aosta Valley

The Cornell research lists several other tomato varieties that are resistant to early or late blight and all the other tomato diseases that you might be fighting in your garden.

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