- New Flowers for 2026
- Soil Health and Management Strategies
- Growing Salad Gardens: An Ultimate Guide by Niki Jabbour
- U-Pick Power for Your Flower Farm
- Squash Success: From Seed to Storage with Johnny’s
- Managing Pests with Ecological Farm Design
- Into the Cabbage Patch: Varieties & Culinary Uses
- New Blooms for 2025
- Top Picks for 2025: New Veggies & More!
- Climate Adaptation in Action
- Garden Cover Crops & Green Manures
- Bloom to Boom: Flower Farm Profitability
- Flower Seed Starting Fundamentals
- Choosing Carrots: A Guide to Varieties You Will Dig
- Tomato Innovation: Breeding & Trialing for Your Finest Harvest
- Pepper Picks: Bells & Jalapeños
- New Flowers for 2024
- New for 2024: Veggies & Herbs
- Veggie Remix: Bring New Flavors & Colors into Your Garden
- Irrigation Systems & Methods
- Flower Growing in Southern States
- Jang Seeder: How to Maximize Its Potential
- Fundamentals of Cucumber Grafting
- One-Cut Lettuces • Insights & Techniques for Small Farms
- Tomato Variety Trends • How Breeding Influences Your Seed Selection
- New for 2023 • Vegetables & Herbs
- New for 2023 • Flowers & Floral Supplies
- Cover Cropping for Field & Garden with Collin Thompson
- Growing Under Cover with Niki Jabbour
- Learning Resources: Climate Adaptation for Vegetable & Flower Farmers
- Baby Leaf Greens: 12 Picks for Market Growers
- Tomatoes • 10 Unsung Heroes
- Peppers • Mostly Sweet with a Touch of Heat
- New for 2022 • Our Top Selections for You
- Producer Cooperatives for Small-Scale Farmers
- Beat the Heat • Lettuce & Specialty Greens for Southern Growers
- Top-Performing Pumpkins for the Market Garden
- Overwinter Flowers • How to extend your growing season with cold-hardy annuals
- Slow Flowers Floral Forecast
- Fundamentals of Tomato Grafting
Top Picks for 2025: New Veggies & More!
About Our Presenters
Steve Bellavia has worked for Johnny’s for over 30 years. As a Product Manager, he oversees our peppers program, most of the heading brassicas, rutabagas, parsnips, and minor root vegetables. He is responsible for managing the assortments of these crops.
Steve Bellavia has worked for Johnny’s for over 30 years. As a Product Manager, he oversees our peppers program, most of the heading brassicas, rutabagas, parsnips, and minor root vegetables. He is responsible for managing the assortments of these crops.
Brenna Chase is the Product Manager for leafy greens at Johnny's—including lettuce, kale, collards, Swiss chard, spinach, chicory, and baby leaf greens. She also manages other crops, including carrots and microgreens. She is responsible for managing the product assortment for these crops as well as overseeing the product development targets of Johnny's carrot, Swiss chard, and greens breeding programs.
Lauren Giroux has 15 years of experience with Johnny's Research Team as a product technician, a product manager, and currently, Director of Product Selection & Trialing. She oversees the product management and trialing teams across all of Johnny's product lines. Lauren is currently the Interim Product Manager for fruits and potatoes.
Rachel Katz has been working on farms for the last 20 years, serving as Johnny's Trials Technician for the past 6. She works with herbs and large and small leafy greens both in field and high tunnel production, evaluating strategies and parsing subtle differences between varieties to inform grower success.
Pete Zuck has been a Product Manager with Johnny’s for more than 11 years. He manages many of the fruiting crops, as well as beans, corn, and farm seed. He is responsible for selecting the product assortment for his assigned crops, and also for directing the product development goals of our tomato, pumpkin, winter and summer squash breeding programs.
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This webinar took place on 11/21/2024
OVERVIEW: We invite you to join us as we share new inspirations and solutions for your growing season in 2025! Learn more about a selection of the more than 150 new products we're excited to introduce this year directly from members of our Research Team who have extensively trialed them.
To ensure the quality of what we offer, we grow and trial thousands of varieties on our farm in Maine and the farms of growing partners nationwide. We only select varieties that meet our rigorous standards for flavor, yield, disease resistance, and adaptability. With climate resiliency an evermore important consideration, we also ensure that the plants and seeds in our catalog perform reliably in diverse environments and growing conditions.
Find out why we selected these standouts above so many others and why we hope you'll try them in the upcoming season. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.
Webinar Resources
Top Picks for 2025: New Veggies & More! • Webinar • VIDEO
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Additional Resources
- All our New for 2025 Varieties
- Organic Products
- Developed by Johnny's
- Grows Well in Containers
- 2025 Digital Catalog
- Catalog Symbol Key & Glossary
- Plant Disease Resistance Codes
- Glossary of Growing & Gardening Terms
- Video: Why Johnny's?
- Infographic: Seed Variety Trials
- Infographic: Johnny's Plant Breeding
- About Our Seeds