Join Joy Longfellow, Johnny's Flower Trial Technician for a close-up look at 'Queensday' tulip, with its bright, early- to mid-spring double blooms, long strong stems, and light, citrusy fragrance.

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.

Profitable margins at the market rely on building efficiencies into the bouquet-making and operation, plus branding that emphasizes "couture" over "commodity." Here's advice from 3 professional flower farmers on how to convey the inherent value of your bouquets through method and presentation.

See our checklist of must-have characteristics for an easy cut-flower garden. Here are three of the easiest, most reliable and productive cut flowers to get you started.

Learn how to choose the best sunflowers to grow, with flower-farming expert Lynn Byczinski. Here are the pros and cons of single-stem and branching types, with our top 10 recommendations for each type.

This article will help you decide which records to keep on the farm this season, with tips for required records, optional data-gathering, what's important, and how to make it a habit, for beginning, intermediate, and advanced farmers.

Read about Growing Power's growth over the past two decades as a leader in urban farming and sustainable polyculture.

Join Flower Trial Tech Joy Longfellow for a tutorial on drying flowers, including tips and recommendations for a few of her favorites, from tried-and-true workhorse crops and varieties for drying to flower crops with novel colors, textures, and forms.

In a series of illustrated steps, we walk you through how to start your sweet potatoes from slips; from the day your slips arrive, we show you what to do should you need to hold them over until you are able to plant them in the ground, lay the mulch, space your holes, dibble in the slips, and why it can make a difference to add a protective layer of row cover. Johnny's research and trialing team provides easy-to-follow tips and photos showing what to expect and do, to assure your sweet potatoes take off from the get-go.

Learn what makes a variety good for growing in greenhouses, hoophouses, and poly tunnels from the research team at Johnny's. Details include which specific plant habit, vine, fruit, and disease resistance characteristics to look for when determining which cultivars to grow in the protected-culture setting, including our crop experts' recommendations for specific tomato, pepper, cucumber, eggplant, and lettuce types and varieties.