A crop-by-crop guide to the best types and varieties of vegetables for winter growing success, ranked by level of difficulty in winter production, from the research team at Johnny's Selected Seeds.
Here are the steps that we used to overwinter onions from seed on our research farm. We include variety recommendations and potential diseases and problems.
At Johnny's we take particular pride in our Asian greens assortment. Years ago we began traveling to Asia to seek out vegetables that many, at the time, considered exotic. To ensure top-notch seed quality, we obtain varieties from only the best suppliers, both domestic and Asian. Give these 10 varieties a spot in your garden or commercial production plans, then center stage on your dinner plate with 5 easy recipes you can prepare in just minutes!
Catch up on all the news about Johnny's from widely varying sources: local and regional to national news outlets, industry experts, podcasters, and journalists.
Develop a plan for springtime cover cropping with these simple guidelines from Johnny's Selected Seeds.
An overview of insectary planting options and recommendations for attracting and sustaining a range of beneficial insects on your farmscape or garden beds, with examples and descriptions of useful cover crops, grasses and grains, flowers and herbs, vegetables, trees, and shrubs that provide food and habitat for ecosystem service organisms.
Using unheated hoophouses, Quick Hoops, and row cover with storage, cold-tolerant, and cold-hardy crops can help you be first and last to market from Johnny's Selected Seeds.
Guidelines, specifics, and variety recommendations on best storage practices — temperature, humidity, and optimal shelf life — for enjoyment of classic storage crops such as roots and tubers like rutabagas, beets, turnip, cabbage, winter squash, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and leeks, well into the winter months.
A list of terms with definitions commonly used in gardening, agriculture, horticulture and seed industries, from the Research Team at Johnny's Selected Seeds.
Information for all stages of vegetable production, from planning and choosing varieties and site selection, to planting, cultivating, growing, harvest, and post-harvest marketing and preparation, from the vegetable experts at Johnny's Selected Seeds.
Grow a wide variety of greens, starting with those that are easily produced and advancing to more challenging types and combinations, using this 3-tiered marketing strategy from Johnny's Selected Seeds.
Having reached our 50th anniversary, Johnny's mission to serve small-scale organic farmers and gardeners holds firm. But seed breeding and trialing aren't our only passions... here's a brief history of tool development at Johnny's.