This easy-to-use, ergonomic, and adjustable device allows you to quickly and efficiently harvest 30"-wide beds of lettuces, greens, mescluns, herbs, spinach, and other baby leaf crops. Clean, precise cutting, directly into bags or crates.
Join former Trial Technician Steve Rodrigue in a review of a recent season extension trial, conducted here at Johnny's Research Farm in Central Maine. This review focuses on a number of chicory and spinach varieties available from Johnny's Selected Seeds.
Key recommendations for heat-tolerant, cool-weather varieties, and cool-weather-loving crops successfully through summer's heat, from Johnny's Research & Trialing Team.
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 across the widest possible window in your region, 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.
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Quick-Guide to Precision Seeders | How to Choose the Best Seeder for Your Small-Scale Growing Needs
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.
An illustrated set of step-by-step instructions from Eliot Coleman on how to set up and manage your Quick Hoops low tunnels from Johnny's Selected Seeds.
Based on our extensive winter trials, this guide offers specific planting charts and guidelines for a successful winter harvest and overwintering program, with recommendations on what to plant and when to plant it.