Vegetable Library

Growing heirloom tomatoes can be tricky. Use these ten tips from Johnny's research team to help you make growing heirloom tomatoes a success.

Follow these instructions for growing globe artichokes (Cynara scolymus). Recommendations are provided for site selection, sowing and culture from seed, cold treatment (vernalization), and harvest.

This tech sheet from Johnny's research team covers the requirements for asparagus production from crowns, including site selection, soil and bed preparation, planting specifications, perennial maintenance, weed control, pest and disease management, harvest, and post-harvest handling and storage.

Follow these recommendations for successful selection, sowing, and cultural production of baby-leaf leafy crops to be harvested as greens or salad mix components. Techniques are specific to baby leaf production for harvest at this maturity stage. This tech sheet outlines basic small-scale field production methods and primary aspects of producing a wide range of leafy salad greens.

Read this instruction manual carefully before use. Follow recommendations for safety, assembly, operation, care, and maintenance for best results with your Baby Leaf Harvester.

Follow the instructions in this Tech Sheet for optimal results with your Basic Microgreens Starter Kit, which can be used year-round to grow healthy microgreens.

Here are a couple novel recipes from classically trained, NY Times Bestseller chef Frank Giglio using two of our newer Johnny's-bred varieties.

Guidelines for choosing the right tomato varieties to suit your particular growing needs and unique preferences, defining 3 key differentiating features, plus our recommended best varieties. 3 key questions: 1) Which vegetative growth habit best suits your needs? Indeterminate (tall and viney) OR determinate (bushy). 2) Where will you grow your tomatoes? Outdoors OR indoors/in a protected setting. 3) Which fruit characteristics are of greatest importance to you? Flavor, color, texture, yield...

Learn to grow 8 easy vegetables that are perfect for beginning growers: bush beans, carrots, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, peas, peppers, and summer squash. Join Johnny's and Niki Jabbour with these easy-to-follow steps, key growing information, and 3-minute videos for all 8 crops.

All-America Selections is an independent, nonprofit organization that tests new, never-before-sold crop varieties, and then introduces only the best garden performers as AAS Winners. Judges look for significantly improved qualities such as earliness to bloom or harvest, disease or pest tolerance, novel colors or flavors, novel flower forms, total yield, length of flowering or harvest, and overall performance. Johnny's is honored to have received 12 AAS awards to date, for new, classically bred vegetable varieties: Red Ember, Valentine, Cornito Giallo, Escamillo, Baby Bear, Carmen, Bonbon, Diva, Bright Lights, Jasper, Butterscotch PMR, and Sunshine.

Information about Dry Beans, from the inveterate State-of-Maine baked-bean devotees at Johnny's Selected Seeds.

Information on vining pole beans, including how to plant, setting up a trellis, recommended varieties and growing tips, from the experts at Johnny's Selected Seeds. Under cover and in the field, follow Phil Foster & John Bauer's 6 Easy Steps to Pole Bean Success.