Closed for the season

We are closed for the season, thanks for a great year! We will soon be busy at work planting our hanging baskets and geraniums so that they are ready for your spring planting. We will reopen around the first of April.

Fun at our Fall Festival!

Our Fall Festival is held on Saturdays and Sundays in October, from 9-5 at our Hobart location. The weather has been great and we have been having so much fun! The price is $4 per person. Please visit our Fall Festival page for more information. If you have pictures from the Festival that you would like to share with us, you can tag them to our FB page. Please limit the number of tags to three per visit.  Here are some of our images and some that our friends have shared.

Fall Festival

We are starting something new at Johnson's this year! On weekends (Saturday's and Sunday's) starting September 24th through the end of October we will be hosting a Family Fall Festivalat our Hobart location.

The kids will love our new Blue Choo Pumpkin Express

Pumpkin Bounce House

Giant Hay Slide

Take a farm tour in one of our new trams

Corn Teepee's for the kids to play

Face Painting, Games and more!

The price for wristbands is $4 per person and the wrist band is good for a full day. Includes all activities.  

Stay for lunch! We now have a hotdog and popcorn cart as well as delicious apple cider. Bring the kids, bring your camera and spend a day playing on the farm!

Berries, Corn and Veggies!

Raspberries will be available for U-Pick around the first of August. The season is just kicking in. They are currently available in our market for $5 a pint. We have a fabulous crop this year, the bushes are loaded! The U-Pick price will be $3.00 a pint. We will keep you posted.

Blackberries - In Indiana, we love blackberries and they are hard to come by. We decided to plant a field of them and we are sitting here patting ourselves on the back.The crop is fabulous and and they will be available for U-Pick around the 1st of August for $3 a quart! So grab your straw hat and come on down!   

Blueberry season is almost over. We currently have them available in 10lb, 5lb, quart and pint. We will be offering U-Pick blueberries in the next year or two, we can't wait!

Michigan peaches ready now, delicious! 

 

Our own homegrown sweet corn is here and it's good! We've lowered the price to $3.99 a dozen. We grow the the corn right here on our farm. It's picked several times throughout the day. We do this because the sugar in corn starts to turn to starch as soon as it's picked and we want to ensure freshness. Others have their corn shipped in a couple of times a week and by the time you get it, the sugar has already turned to starch. Ours is the best......from our fields to your table!

We also have homegrown zucchini, green beans, peppers and other delicious produce available in our market now.

Strawberry Season is here!

We are so excited that Strawberry season has begun! We now have berries in the market. 

U-Pick - Be a VIP and help us kick off the U-Pick season! Join us on Friday June 10^th , 4:00 to 7:00 pm for a guided wagon ride out to our strawberry field and pick your own berries. Only $7.00 a bucket! A hot dog dinner will be available and the strawberry shortcake hut will be open. Last wagon ride out to the field leaves at 6:00 pm. For this event you must sign up to reserve your seat. Please call us at 219 962-1383 to sign up.

First official day for U-Pick is Saturday, June 11th from 8:00am – 6:00pm daily while the season lasts. The U-Pick price is $7.00 a bucket and we provide the buckets. 

Our remote locations are scheduled to open soon.

Lowell/Hebron - Tuesday June7th

Crown Point Farmers Market - Saturday June11th  

Rensselaer - Tues June 7th OR Thurs June 9th. Date pending.

61st Avenue Market Saturday June 11th

The Strawberry Madness Festival will be on Saturday and Sunday, June 18th and 19th. Please click here for a list of activities.

Strawberry Madness Saturday June 18th and Sunday 19th

Please note that the dates for our Strawberry Madness Festival have changed. These changes are strictly due to weather and can change again at any time. The good thing is that the because of the cool weather, the berries are doing great! Please check back often for updated information.

Strawberries 2011, We can't wait!

We get a lot of questions this time of year asking when the strawberries will be ready for picking. They will be ready some time in June. With strawberries, everything depends on the weather. We have had a very cool spring so it looks like the season will be a little late. We are keeping a close eye on the plants and are busy planning our strawberry madness festival. Strawberry Madness is usually scheduled on a Saturday at the peak of the strawberry season. It is so much fun that we decided to add an extra day. It is scheduled for Saturday June 11th and Sunday June 12th with dates subject to change pending the weather. We will be sending newsletters, posting on facebook, tweeting and updating this blog frequently to keep everyone informed and up to date!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day! We wanted to post a reminder about our Moonlight Madness Sale on Friday May 6th from 4-9 PM. We are stocked and ready with lots of beautiful things for mom! Here is the sale list.

Friday May 6th from 4-9pm ONLY

ALL hanging baskets 20% off

Seed geraniums $1.29 each

Spikes and Vinca Vine $2.59 each

6-pack WAVE PETUNIAS $5.00 each reg $7.99 each

Pansy Flats $7.99 each

Pansy Bowls Half Price

All items while supplies last...

The surprise sale cart is back and will continue to have new items throughout the evening!!!

SALE GOOD AT BOTH LOCATIONS: Ridge Road and Hwy 30

No early birds and no price adjustments.

Custom Planting

We have been busy this week with our custom planting. It's a service that we offer every spring.


Simply bring in your pots or choose a container from our diverse selection of sizes and styles. One of our plant professionals will help you select plants based on your growing conditions and your personal tastes. Simply give us your color scheme and let us design something for you. Or, pick out the exact flowers and accent plants that you like and we will make it happen.

We do custom planting in April, May and June. Your custom planted pots will be ready within a week for you to pick up. We cannot hold custom planted containers. Therefore, please place your orders a few days before you are ready for them.

The cost is based on materials used and labor. There is a cleaning/disinfecting fee for containers that are recycled.

Stop in and see us today!

Colossus New Guinea Impatiens

This year we are pleased to offer a new variety of New Guinea Impatiens. The are called Colossus and the blossoms are shockingly huge! Take a look!

Add to give you an idea how big......can you believe it?

It's time to plant the pansies!

It's that time of year again, time to plant the pansies! We have them in our planters at home and our window boxes too. They love this chilly weather. Pansies are a burst of color and a promise of things to come. We have them in flats that you can plant yourself or ready to go pansy bowls, beautiful!  We love them!

Thank you all for coming out to celebrate our grand opening with us. It was a fun night. We raised $260 for the Hobart Food Pantry. Thanks to everyone who participated!

Sneak Peek!

To read about our Grand Opening Celebration, click here.

We thought we'd finish up the week with a few pictures. To view our Sneak Peek Gallery, go here

Come celebrate with us!

Grand Opening Celebration!

Join us Friday April 1st from 3:00 - 7:00 pm for a peak into Spring of 2011! Be the first to see our beautiful remodel.

*Get a guided tour from one of our plant specialists and learn about all the new and exciting things in plants for 2011. We'll even share our personal favorites!

*Learn to paint flowers with Artist Extraordinaire, Pete Cortese. Pete, a Hobart native, will demonstrate how to paint flowers from beautiful images that he took himself!

*Bring your old junk...something unique....an old shoe or boot...a birdcage or basket 8" or smaller and plant it with pansies....$5 donation to Hobart Food Pantry. One per customer.

*Barb from Marilyn's Bakery will be giving cooking demonstrations and samples on homemade pasta with fresh pesto, stuffed mushrooms and rosemary potatoes skewered with Johnson's new BBQ rosemary plants.

*There will be wine, appetizers and music.

*20% off the entire store! Don't forget to bring a friend!
20% off sale Friday April 1st, 3:00pm -7:00pm only. No exceptions.

Opening day is Saturday, April 2nd at 8:00am.

Pictured below is beautiful Kong Coleus. It's a large leaf shade lover. We love it because of the beautiful color the foliage offers all season.

March 7th, 2011

The greenhouses are full. We will now be spending our time tending the plants. Pruning, feeding , watering and praying for sunshine to help them along. When we are not tending plants we are getting the market read for opening. Inventory continues to arrive and the displays are coming together nicely.

We will be having a grand opening on April 2nd to unveil our new remodel. Come and view the new plants, take a tour, take advantage of special discounts, sample food and wine and more! The place looks grand and we can't wait for you to see it!

The first image is of our big beautiful porch pot combo's. It's hard to believe that in a few weeks the will be blooming profusely and jumping out of the pot! The second image is a sea of geraniums. They are one of our all time favorite plants and we can proudly say that no one can grow them like we can! Look for new varieties this season.

 

Our Babies, 2-24-11

We wanted to share a picture of how our large hanging geranium combo baskets start out. We plant small starts called plugs and nurture them until the are big and beautiful. These are a few of the baskets that have been planted over the last couple of days. We'll post pictures periodically through growing process so that you can see the progress.

Spring is upon us! Johnson's Farm Produce

Hello and welcome! We have been busier than usual preparing for the 2011 gardening season and we can't wait to share it with you! We are in the process of updating our website. We've added this blog and are on Facebook and Twitter. We can now easily keep you updated with current information. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for quick blurbs or visit us here for more detailed information.

Steve, Fernando and crew did a major remodel in our greenhouses. The retail area has been expanded and we have widened the aisles to allow for easier shopping. While the boys were working, the girls were shopping. We traveled to Atlanta to purchase much of our giftware and we came away with some fabulous things! Look for ceramic pots and lots of them in many shapes, sizes and colors. Fairy items are back! We have a complete line along with accessories and lots of adorable little fairies to grace your garden. New this year and what we are most excited about are firepots. Firepots are decorative tabletop ceramic containers that you use to burn fuel gel. They can be used indoors or out. We have quite a variety so be sure to check them out!

Our spring planting begins next week. We fire up the greenhouses one by one and plant until they are all full. It's quite a task but oh so rewarding! A couple of new plants to watch for this year....Little Lime and Bella Anna Hydrangeas, Blackberry Punch Superbells and the Home Run Rose.

And now a little bit of color to brighten your winter day.......