Fruit Library

Learn how to grow blackberry bushes from bare-root primocanes, including the basics of soil pH and light needs, planting, culture, and harvesting the berries.

Learn how to grow blueberry bushes from bare-root plants, including the basics of soil pH and light needs, planting, spacing, culture, and harvesting.

Review cultivars in Johnny’s Blueberry Collection, selected to fill each harvest slot for season-wide blueberry production.

Whether for luscious flavor, health, or visual appeal you grow fresh fruit, new varieties and methods make it is easier now than ever. Johnny's charts and programs show you how you can harvest fruit throughout the season.

Information on how to grow and harvest high-quality strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and other fruit across the growing seasons, from the Research & Trialing team at Johnny's Selected Seeds.

A crop-by-crop listing of fruit crops we offer, with links to the essential sowing, planting, and growing information required to get you started.

Basic benefits and steps for growing strawberries in your hoophouse or high tunnel, including starting your own plugs.

Use protected cropping, high tunnels, greenhouses, bird net, and other protected culture methods to maximize your return on growing fruit. Here's the basic information you need to get started.

An overview of the 3 main types of strawberries, with tips for selecting which ones to plant and grow, by seasoned market farmer and author Lynn Byczinski.

Learn the basics of trellising your grape vines, with descriptions of main trellising systems and links to additional learning resources.

Learn the basics of successful melon growing, with information on diverse netted, or "winter" melon types, from the Johnny's melon research and trialing team. Includes information on melon seed-starting, transplanting melon, melon culture, important type- and variety-specific harvest indicators, as well as best storage conditions and shelf life of Charentais, canary, cantaloupe (muskmelon), Crenshaw, galia (tropical), honeydew, Piel de Sapo, and Asian melon types.

Here is the Key Growing Information for melons (Cucumis melo, also known as "hard-shell" melons). Read more for a successful harvest!