Market your produce

There's never been a better time to be a fresh market grower

This is the year to take advantage of the local-food trend and make more money marketing your produce. Many growers work hard to be the first in their markets with a particular item in the spring and early summer. It is equally beneficial to stay active in your markets until they close in fall, or to go even further into winter with home delivery or on-farm pickup.
Here are some of the crops that will keep the cash flowing long after summer is gone:

Succession Crops   |  Fall Field Crops   |  Hoophouse Crops   |  Storage Crops



Product display
Sell more: Displaying your products with purpose is both an art and a science.

Brand management
Manage your brand: It's not just for the big guys. Develop and manage your own brand.
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Johnny's market sign contest


Welcome to Johnny's Selected Seeds!

Our mission is to help families, friends, and communities to feed one another by providing superior seeds, tools, information, and service.

We are an employee-owned seed producer and merchant headquartered in Winslow, Maine, USA. Johnny's was founded in 1973 by our Chairman, Rob Johnston, Jr. All of us at Johnny's are committed to helping growers and gardeners succeed. Learn more about Johnny's.



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reduced seed prices on Johnny's seeds

Enjoy year-round crop protection with Quick Hoops™


• Hoophouse-style protection at 1/20th of the cost!

• Harvest earlier in the spring and later in the fall.

• Innovative and easy to use.
Johnny's news update: USDA to Launch High Tunnel Pilot Study to Increase Availability of Locally Grown Foods. Read article.

Learn more; watch Quick Hoops™ at the White House video.

Quick Hoops™ demonstration on Martha Stewart Show with Barbara Damrosch.

quickhoops bender video
Watch video on how to use the Quick Hoops™ bender to make your own low tunnels!


A look back: Johnny's Selected Seeds company history

 


MANAGING LATE BLIGHT

Johnny's recommends:

Pull up any potato volunteers from last year and throw them away or burn them (do not compost!)
Spray preventative pesticides like copper Champ® or Oxidate®
Remove any suspicious looking lesions found on tomato or potato plants and throw them away or burn them (do not compost!)
Scout crops daily for lesions

Read article about how to prevent late blight in our Grower's Library.

Contact your area's cooperative extension office about late blight.


Find your seed-starting date
» Learn when to start seeds inside and when to safely set them out.
Seed-starting calculator

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Video: How to prune tomatoes

Prune your tomatoes for higher yields, earlier fruit, and to help prevent disease. It's easy! Watch movie.

Video: How to stymie pesky tomato hornworms

Learn how to minimize tomato hornworm damage. Johnny's Susie Anderson discusses methods to eliminate the big green caterpillar, the scourge of tomato growers. Watch movie.

Rob Johnston Jr. founds Johnny's. Johnny's opens Research Farm in Albion, Maine 1993