Variety Highlights

  1. Substitutes for Out of Stock & Limited Availability Varieties

    As anyone who works with the land knows, there is inherent risk involved with growing. Some years are too dry; others too wet. Sometimes diseases inhibit plant growth repeatedly, no matter what preventative measures are taken. Pests can abound. Accidents happen. With seed production, we feel these risks in equal measure to vegetable farmers. We strive to diversify our seed...
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  2. Time to Sow: A Gardener's Guide

    This guide is designed to help growers determine the appropriate time to sow certain crops based on their region and unique growing climate. Use the “When to Plant Out” column below as a reference for each crop you want to grow from seed. If the column says “After Last Frost,” use the following formula to determine the sowing date for...
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  3. Crop Talk: Abundant Lettuces

    As both new and veteran farmers know, growing successful year-round lettuces requires diligent planning and careful variety selection. High Mowing’s unique assortment of quality head lettuces showcases varieties that ensure harvests through all seasons, no matter where you grow. Encino lettuce. The green Bibb-type Mirlo and the red leaf New Red Fire, both early producers with modern downy mildew resistances...
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  4. Crop Talk: Greenhouse Tomatoes & Cucumbers

    Bartelly F1 cherry tomatoes. To get the most out of valuable greenhouse real estate, you need the guarantee of a strong performance. High Mowing is dedicated to offering high quality genetics for tomato and cucumber seed with varieties developed for strong performances in protected culture. For a long season of crowd-pleasing cherry tomatoes, our growers love Sakura F1, a uniform...
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  5. From the Garden: Success with Flowers

      Browsing a seed catalog’s colorful flower assortment is a welcome respite for gardeners in winter. But decision making can be challenging: tall or short? Shade or sun-loving? Annual or perennial? High Mowing can help you achieve your best growth yet with supportive resources for variety selection and growing advice from our gardening community. Cut Flowers Double-Click Cosmos Blend. Impress...
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  6. Securing the Future of Organic Seed: High Mowing's Collaboration with Vitalis

    High Mowing is proud to partner with Vitalis Organic Seeds, an established global leader of organic seed production and breeding, to offer superior seed to the organic market. Through this unique relationship, Vitalis has shared high quality lettuce varieties Encino and Lovelock with High Mowing, allowing us to broaden our assortment and establish a dependable and enduring source for organic...
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  7. High Mowing Bred: Our Picnic Pepper Collection

    Dr. Jodi Lew-Smith first encountered miniature sweet peppers while grocery shopping in the South. It was several years ago, and the Breeding Coordinator was taken with the tiny snack veggie right away. When asked why she wanted to grow them for seed, her reply was immediate: “They taste amazing,” says Lew-Smith. As the leader of High Mowing’s breeding program, Lew-Smith...
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  8. 2017 New Varieties Sneak Peek

    The launch of a new season’s catalog is our chance to share all the exciting products we’ve been working on for the past year. Catalogs have already started arriving in mailboxes, and we want to highlight some of the new varieties that you’ll see when you open them up. Here’s a sampling, broken up by grower preference: For the Greens...
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  9. Putting Cover Crops to Work

    Growing vegetables is hard on a place, and it’s important to put something back for all that we take out. One of our responsibilities as growers and gardeners is to be good stewards of the earth that we use. Feeding the soil is an important piece of increasing the health of our fields. One can add compost, but increasing levels...
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  10. Heat Tolerant Greens: Varieties for the Hottest Summer Months

    As our season slowly evolves from spring into summer, those of us who grow greens all season long are thinking about how to change up successions to those that will put up with heat. This is a challenge every year, as consumer demand for fresh leafy greens remains strong while it becomes increasingly difficult to produce quality greens without the...
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