GROWER'S LIBRARY

Johnny's is 100% employee-owned. Learn more about our employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) and what it means to you as a grower.

Learn why not all pea seed is created equal by reading the Story of 'Sugar Ann' Snap Pea at Johnny's Selected Seeds. Not only are there differences between pea varieties, even seed lots of the same pea variety can vary widely in quality, depending on how the seed crop is grown and managed. To achieve uniformity, or purity, of the seed lot, one must start with a high-quality, uniform batch of seeds — or, as we say in the seed industry, "stock seeds" — to grow the seed crop to a workable size. And, one must also maintain this quality over time. Here's how we do it...

Here are Lisa Ziegler's 5 recommended "Cool Flowers" — cold-tolerant hardy annuals for overwintering and shoulder-season growing for the earliest possible blooms in spring.

Learn about Johnny's 'Hungarian Hot Wax' stewardship project, to: 1) restore the best qualities of a long-cherished open-pollinated (OP) variety; 2) maintain a foundation stock of the improved strain; and 3) offer growers dependable seed, once and for all.

A deep-summer dive into trending colors and shapes in the flower-farming and floral-design industry, with a swirl of fresh imagery from Slow Flowers members and Johnny’s photography and flower-trialing team.

A summary of this year's Floral Forecast, with Insights & Industry Trends from Debra Prinzing, Johnny's partner and founder of the Slow Flowers movement.

Illustrated step-by-step technique, tips, and guidelines to get you started top-grafting cucumbers to maximize yield and ROI, with Johnny's Vegetable Trial Technician, Nate Gorlin-Crenshaw.

Welcome to our Resources page for the Fundamentals of Tomato Grafting webinar, a list of materials to help provide you with the knowledge needed for small-scale production of grafted tomato plants.

For 40 years Johnny's Selected Seeds has been dedicated to helping families, friends, and communities to feed one another by providing quality seeds, tools, information, and service. Founder and Chairman, Rob Johnston Jr., proudly states, "We will continue to work, today and into the future, as a community with you, your family, and your customers and friends. When the boundaries between all of us get blurred, that's when it's best." After all this time, Johnny's continues to be challenged and honored by the support of its customers.

An overview of Common Tomato Pests, Diseases & Physiological Disorders to help tomato growers avoid problems — or should they arise, to be better prepared to appropriately address them — in time. We provide a brief summary of the primary living (biotic) pathogens as well as nonliving (abiotic, or physiological) disorders that are common and/or pose the greatest threat, with additional resources for further reading and assistance.

U.S./domestic shipping information, options, and rate tables from the Customer Care team at Johnny's Selected Seeds.

Johnny's Flower Product Technician Joy Longfellow and Flower Product Manager Hillary Alger walk you through the benefits of overwintering, provide crop and variety recommendations, and offer tips on getting set up for success.