Vegetable Library

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.

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.

Compare bean variety features, including Days to Maturity, Pod Color, Pod Length, Pod Diameter, Disease Resistance, Pod Shape, and Bean Seed Color. Johnny's select line of bush (green) bean varieties includes varieties carefully trialed and selected by our research team.

Follow the instructions in this tech sheet for succession Belgian endive production. Details include site selection and soil preparation, sowing, harvesting, overwintering and seasoning the roots, forcing of chicons, and harvesting.

Follow the instructions in this Tech Sheet for best results with your Bioset Germinator Sprouter. Includes table of seed quantity per crop to use per tray and approximate yield.

Johnny's Selected Seeds' Broccoli Planting Program is designed to take the guesswork out of succession planting for standard heading broccoli varieties, allowing you to easily extend your harvest throughout the growing season. Succession-plant broccoli varieties in this recommended sequence for a steady supply of broccoli from earliest spring through late-fall in cooler regions, and into winter-harvest in more temperate growing zones.

Technical production guide for growing early-sprouting / summer-sprouting broccoli, and broccoli x Asian gai lan (Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra) varieties, commonly referred to as mini broccoli, from Johnny's Selected Seeds.

Technical growing instructions for late-sprouting (aka purple-sprouting or winter-sprouting) broccoli (Brassica oleracea var. italica), from the Research & Trialing team at Johnny's Selected Seeds.