About Johnny's

OMRI Certificate for Apex Green Hydroloc Seed Treatment/Coating. Organic Materials Review Institute-listed as appropriate for use in certified-organic production.

All-America Selections is an independent, nonprofit organization that tests new, never-before-sold crop varieties, and then introduces only the best garden performers as AAS Winners. Judges look for significantly improved qualities such as earliness to bloom or harvest, disease or pest tolerance, novel colors or flavors, novel flower forms, total yield, length of flowering or harvest, and overall performance. Johnny's is honored to have received 12 AAS awards to date, for new, classically bred vegetable varieties: Red Ember, Valentine, Cornito Giallo, Escamillo, Baby Bear, Carmen, Bonbon, Diva, Bright Lights, Jasper, Butterscotch PMR, and Sunshine.

For 50 years, Johnny’s has been contributing to the success of growers just like you. Here’s how we do it... commitment to organics, personalized growing advice, performance you can count on, a mission that matters, classical breeding methods, rigorous seed trials, superior-quality seeds, and breadth of choice.

Per MOFGA Certification Services by review of production plan and inspection of operations, Johnny's Selected Seeds is qualified to market products as grown, produced, processed, or handled under the accepted USDA standards and procedures. Once certified, a production or handling operation's organic certification continues in effect until surrendered, suspended, or revoked.

MOFGA Certification # 9726. These are the certified organic products grown, produced, or handled by this certified operation, to the USDA National Organic Program (NOP) Standards.

We encourage you to try these resurrected open-pollinated, heirloom and heritage tomatoes and let us know what you discover. We appreciate hearing from you, so we developed this downloadable, printable Survey Form for Our Open-Pollinated Tomato Project, so growers of these 3 varieties can enter observations and send us your feedback — or simply retain for your own records.

Pelleting is the process whereby seeds are coated with inert materials to make them more uniform in size and shape. Whether direct-seeded in the field or sown for transplants, pelleted seed allows for greater precision, accuracy, economy, efficiency, as well as convenience in the seeding process. With attention to the following considerations, its full benefits are readily achieved...

A brief description of intellectual property rights (IPR) in plant and seed variety breeding, from Johnny's Selected Seeds.

There's more than meets the eye when one of our seeds meets the soil — classical plant breeding; rigorous trialing; reliable germination; uniformity in the field; dependable yield; commitment to sustainable and organic agriculture; detailed growing information. Learn how the success you achieve from planting our seeds makes all our work worthwhile!

Learn more about our classical plant breeding program, and how the award-winning vegetable varieties are created and brought to life at Johnny's Selected Seeds.

Here's the story behind the development of 'Cherry Bomb,' our late-blight-resistant, JSS-bred cherry x grape tomato for organic field production.

Nothing goes in our catalog or out our door until it's field-tested or trialed at Johnny's Research Farm or at one of our farmer-cooperator's across the country.