Vermont's record-breaking wet spring is causing a new concern for home gardeners and commercial growers. Agriculture officials say the plant disease known as ‘late blight' is a potential threat to this season's crops. Resources: Vermont's Agency of Agriculture Resources: UVM's Master Gardener Program

A plant disease that attacks tomatoes and potatoes has surfaced in Maine and in Massachusetts, just south of the Vermont border.

Gardeners around the region will be out this weekend hoping to avoid a late blight that wiped out crops of tomatoes, and ruined many potato plants last year.

There's a warning for gardeners to be on the lookout for a disease that spreads and kills quickly. In fact, last year many people lost all of their tomatoes and some potatoes due to an outbreak of late blight.

Late blight is affecting crops across Vermont. The fungus kills tomato and potato plants. It thrives in cool, wet weather.

Plant experts are warning farmers and backyard gardeners to guard against a fungus that has the potential to wipe out tomato and potato crops across the region. The disease is known as "late blight," and it's what led to the Irish potato famine at the middle of the 19th century.