Johnny's Selected Seeds

About this original series

Johnny’s Selected Seeds is a privately held, employee-owned seed producer and merchant headquartered in Winslow, Maine, USA. The company was established in 1973 by our Founder and Chairman Rob Johnston, Jr. Johnny’s mission is helping families, friends, and communities to feed one another by providing superior seeds, tools, information and service. Our products include vegetable seeds; medicinal and culinary herb seeds; flower seeds; cover crops, farm seed, and pasture mixes; fruit plants and seeds, and high quality, problem-solving tools and supplies. We ship throughout the United States as well as internationally. We carry sizes ranging from small to large to suit the needs of home gardeners and small growers as well as retailers and wholesalers.

  • # Episodes

    38 episodes
  • Rating

    TV-UN

Episodes of Johnny's Selected Seeds

    • Tub Trugs

      The most useful tool you may ever buy!Ultra-flexible, lightweight food-grade polyethylene tubs. Besides serving as a great harvesting container for a multitude of crops, they can also be used for heavy duty jobs like carrying garden tools and supplies, mixing fertilizer, amending and pouring potting soil, storing small reusable items for next season, holding wash water, collecting compost - their uses are literally endless.

      • Release date
        Sep 27, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:32
    • How to use Johnny's Flame Weeder

      Perfect for creating stale planting beds and spot weed control without herbicides. Comes with everything you need for flame weeding except the propane. Includes a 400,000 BTU torch, lightweight aluminum backpack frame with padded shoulder straps, a padded back strap (to prevent the tank from resting directly on your back), a non-padded hip strap, and a 3-gallon fuel cylinder. We recommend the use of a Squeeze Valve #9076. Made in the USA. Certified by AGA and CGA. Weighs 22 lb. empty, 34 lb. w...

      • Release date
        Sep 27, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:58
    • Cucumber pruning

      How to prune cucumber plants.

      • Release date
        Sep 27, 2010
      • Runtime
        03:18
    • Tomato seed processing

      These film clips show the sluice used to process tomatoes for seed at Johnny's Research Farm in Albion, Maine. The fruits, in this case, Black Cherry tomatoes, are crushed into a slurry. The seed is separated from the pulp in the sluice. The heavier seeds fall to the bottom while the pulp floats to the top and is pumped out of the sluice.

      • Release date
        Sep 22, 2010
      • Runtime
        00:45
    • Crop walk video: Portuguese Kale trials; tomato ...

      In this week's crop walk, we take a look at our Portuguese Kale trial and tomato seed processing with a sluice.

      • Release date
        Sep 22, 2010
      • Runtime
        02:59
    • Crop walk video: Basil and Baby Leaf Greens trials

      In this version of the Johnny's crop walk video, we take a look at our Basil and Baby Leaf Greens trials. Also, a watermelon sound-test, tomatoes, pumpkins, sunflowers, and more...

      • Release date
        Sep 2, 2010
      • Runtime
        02:45
    • Greens mix comparison

      Johnny's Ovation (organic) 2697GElegance 653Spectrum 650

      • Release date
        Sep 1, 2010
      • Runtime
        00:57
      • Release date
        Aug 19, 2010
      • Runtime
        02:09
    • Morning crop walk, August 11, 2010

      This week's episode focuses on some of Johnny's flower trials -- sunflowers and Asters.

      • Release date
        Aug 11, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:41
    • Afternoon crop walk, August 6, 2010

      In this week's episode, we take a look at our flower trials -- Rudbeckia (Black-Eyed Susan), Amaranthus, and Sunflowers. Also on the walk, we look at a few vegetables and herbs -- Cauliflower, Kale, Cabbage, Corn, Peppers and Dill.

      • Release date
        Aug 6, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:05