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Vegetables

NEW: Planning for Opening Day
NEW: Succession Planting
NEW: Overwintering Crops
Be first and last to market
Top 10 ways to extend your season

How day length affects vegetable production
Forum onion sets
Grow a rainbow mix of cherry tomatoes
Trellising hoophouse tomatoes

Farm Seed

NEW: Farmscaping and biological control
NEW: Insectary plantings
NEW: Growing hay
A sustainable farm seed plan
Advantages of cover crops
Buckwheat: Quick cover crop for weed control
The benefits of grass-legume combinations
Winter cover crops

Fruits

NEW: Protect your investment
Getting started with fruit

Trellising grapes
Selecting, planting and growing strawberries
Hoophouse strawberries

Other articles

What is Sustainable Agriculture?

Herbs

NEW: Economic outlook for culinary herbs
NEW: Destination herb farms
NEW: Tips for creating herb container gardens
Mouthwatering combinations -- herbs and farm fresh produce
How to profit with herbs
Marketing herb plants
Overwintering herbs
Growing herb plants for direct market sales

Flowers

NEW: U-Pick Flowers
NEW: Flower power for roadside markets
NEW: Post-harvest handling and vase life
Year-round flower strategy

Appeal to their senses with fresh cut flowers
Year-round flower strategy

How day length affects cut flowers
How to choose sunflower varieties
Beyond blossoms: Unusual additions to your floral menu
Growing flowers in the hoophouse
Succession planting sunflowers

Tools and Supplies

NEW: Top 10 ways to grow more food in the same space
All about protected cropping

The importance of soil



 

About Johnny's 2011 catalog covers:


The cover shot of the 2011 Johnny's Catalog is a photo of a community garden in Massachusetts. The garden was started by The Food Project.
Founded in 1991, The Food Project is dedicated to engaging young people in personal and social change through sustainable agriculture.
For more information on The Food Project, visit thefoodproject.org 





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Articles by
Lynn
Byczynski

About
the author:
Lynn Byczynski was growing organic vegetables and cut flowers for market when she decided to create a magazine that would help market gardeners nationwide share experiences and information. Her first issue of Growing for Market appeared in January 1992 and it has been published continuously since then. GFM is renowned in the market gardening world for realistic articles that give growers practical, how-to information about growing and selling produce and flowers. Lynn is now partnering with Johnny's to provide similarly useful information for the johnnyseeds.com website and other publications.

Lynn, her husband Dan Nagengast, and their two children have grown vegetables and cut flowers since 1988, selling through a CSA, at farmers markets, to chefs, grocery stores, and florists. They currently grow cut flowers and hoophouse tomatoes on about 2 acres of their 20-acre farm near Lawrence, Kansas.

Lynn is also the author of several books about market farming:
The Flower Farmer: An Organic Grower's Guide to Raising and Selling Cut Flowers; The Hoophouse Handbook; Market Farming Success