GROWER'S LIBRARY

Follow Johnny's Spinach Succession Planting Program, compiled from data collected by our Research & Trialing Teams and designed to illustrate which spinach varieties to plant, grow, and harvest in sequence, allowing you to extend your spinach harvest across the seasons.

A downloadable, print-friendly version of our Spinach Varieties Comparison and Planting Program. Includes information on ideal sowing/harvesting seasons, days to maturity, color, growth, disease resistances, including powdery mildew races, and bolting rate.

Key recommendations for heat-tolerant, cool-weather varieties, and cool-weather-loving crops successfully through summer's heat, from Johnny's Research & Trialing Team.

Use this chart to schedule your planting dates of vegetable crops for overwintering. Chart depicts crops from 3 levels of reliability for success.

Use our chart to schedule plantings of your winter-harvest crops, and enjoy a seamless harvest all winter long.

Tips for gaining efficiencies on the farm from 3 of Johnny's favorite efficiency experts in the field: Anne Mefferd, farmer & owner of One Drop Farm in Cornville, ME; Jean-Martin Fortier, farmer, author & owner of Les Jardins de la Grelinette, St-Armand, Québec; and Michael Kirkpatrick, owner of Kilpatrick Family Farm, Middle Granville, NY.

Follow this set of guidelines for optimizing your harvest, including tips and recommendations for year-round production and harvesting, an explanation of the details of carrot season extension by variety selection, succession planting carrots, early carrots, main harvest carrots, storage carrots, and carrot types such as Nantes, Imperator, Parisian, and Kuroda, from the carrot breeding and trialing team at Johnny's Selected Seeds.

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.

Refer to this list of plant disease resistance codes used by Johnny's to designate common plant and seed-crop pathogens, including the acronyms and type of causal organism, e.g., fungal, bacterial, viral.

This quick-guide to choosing a seeder will help you determine which type of direct-sow precision seeder will best suit your needs. We address efficiency, precision, and affordability, additional key factors to weigh in your calculation, the pros and cons of our seeder options, and reviews from small-scale growers of all types. Choosing the right seeder will enable you to use seed, time, and labor to your greatest advantage.

A review of basic high and low tunnel components, the rudiments for season extension and protected culture growing, with Lynn Byczinski and Johnny's Selected Seeds.

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.