Environmental Commitment: Johnny’s has maintained its strong commitment to sustainable agriculture for 40 years.
You can also tour the company’s beautiful, 120-acre farm from July through September. Johnny’s also provides detailed growing information for every variety it sells, based on observations made during its own trials and customer feedback. You can access the extensive gardening content via the Grower’s Library on the website, the annual catalog, the call center, and an online Q&A service staffed by experts who promise a 48-hour turnaround.
In case you want to try it, here's a link to Mother Earth News Vegetable Garden Planner.Baker Creek was founded in 1998 by then-teenager Jere Gettle, who grew his own seeds, storing shoeboxes full of them in his bedroom. In the fall, I may focus more on lettuce, kale and other leafy green vegetables. At that point, we'll have eggs to sell.Ĭrop rotation is another aspect that I need to look at, as the growing season here in northwest Washington is nearly year-around. Our 3 older hens are producing eggs every day over the next couple of months our 6 younger hens should begin laying. If we have an over-abundance, we'll share with neighbors and friends, and maybe we'll eventually be able to sell produce at the Saturday Market. Of course, we'll be eating it fresh from the garden, too. My goal is to take advantage of our harvest by freezing, canning, dehydrating, pickling, fermenting and storing as much of the abundance as I can (well, I'm hoping we'll be blessed with an abundance). A few of the vegetable seeds also didn't germinate (those are the gaps near the Kale), and so I'll have to consider what else I have to put there. I'll have to replace them, and this time around I'm not going to start with bare root.
I purchased bare-root berries and trees by mail order, and unfortunately some of them are still not growing after being in the ground several weeks. Now that the garden has started to grow, there are a few things that I would have done differently. It's our first spring here at Vintage Home and Farm, and I guess the dream of fully living a farm lifestyle kind of inspired us. We did kind of go overboard with it this year. Below is the diagram I made:Ī friend came by the other day and commented that it looks like I'd put in a commercial garden.
I was pleased with the results and found the free online tool super-easy to use. I used a free garden planner from Mother Earth News to draw a layout of my vegetable garden.