Key Growing Information
Legume Cover Crops | Key Growing Information
Written by our research team, this reference contains the essential information for growing LEGUME cover crops. Read more for a successful harvest!
Here is the full, 90-minute presentation of our webinar on Cover Cropping for Field & Garden with Collin Thompson, Johnny's Farm Ops Manager, including the Q&A session.
Key Growing Information
Farm Seed Key Growing Information Index: Crop-by-Crop Planting Essentials
A crop-by-crop listing of farm seed / cover crops that we offer, with links to the essential sowing, planting, and growing information required to get you started.
Step into Johnny's overwinter flowers tunnel to learn about trellising, supports, ground cover, and spacing flower crops recommended for overwintering.
Use these spun polypropylene covers to protect crops from cold and pests. Available in 6 thicknesses and dozens of sizes.
Key Growing Information
Pearl Millet for Forage, Cover or Grain (Pennisetum glaucum) | Key Growing Information
Written by our research team, this reference contains the essential information for growing PEARL MILLET (Pennisetum glaucum) as a green manure, cover crop, and/or forage crop. Read more for a successful harvest!
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Video: Tips & Crop Recommendations for the Autumn and Winter Cold Frame • Tutorial with Niki Jabbour
Award-winning gardening author and educator Niki Jabbour covers the basics and provides tips and crop recommendations for the fall and winter cold frame.
This interactive spreadsheet displays a matrix of FARM SEED/COVER CROP types, including 32 specific varieties of green manures, grains, legumes, and forage crops, with seed characteristics and Jang JP roller gauge size by millimeters, indicating the best Jang rollers for the particular variety, the roller part numbers, and whether or not the roller when placed on the Jang JP Seeder provides for seed singulation, plus a Notes/Comments field. Click on any Johnny's roller part # or specific farm seed variety part # in this chart to view or purchase. Save the file to your desktop to filter, sort, make your own edits, and keep more detailed records of which farm seed/cover crop sowing practices work best for you.
The EarthWay Seeder is designed for the small-scale market grower and large-scale home gardener. Fast and easy to operate; furrows, plants, covers seeds, and marks the next row, all in one pass.
Watch Johnny's instructive and informative videos, on topics ranging from how to plant, cultivate, and harvest your crops, to using our unique line of slow tools and supplies, for effectively marketing your produce.
Join us in our sunflower trial fields for some tips on growing both branching and single-stem sunflower varieties. We cover the basics of seeding, spacing, pinching, and harvest for the longest vase life. We also review the difference between pollen-producing and pollenless varieties.
View this essential tool in action. Nothing cuts through weeds like a sharpened spring steel hoe blade!