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Disease-Resistant Vegetable Varieties That Keep Your Harvest Strong
Published 3 months, 1 week ago
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- Planting disease-resistant vegetables helps you harvest longer and avoid losing entire crops to common problems like blight, mildew, and viral infections
- Hybrids such as Mountain Merit tomato and Emerald Delight zucchini are bred to block or slow pathogens, giving you more reliable yields
- Heirlooms like Black Cherry tomato and Homemade Pickles cucumber show natural resilience, allowing you to save seeds while keeping your garden productive
- Seed catalogs and databases provide easy codes and guides so you can choose the varieties that match the disease pressures in your region
- Combining resistant plants with smart practices — like mulching, crop rotation, and removing infected leaves — further protects your harvest and reduces stress