Johnny’s Selected Seeds & GrowingWisdom.com Launch Internet Based Video Gardening Series

July 31, 2008 - PRLog -- Johnny’s Selected Seeds and GrowingWisdom.com
Launch Internet-Based Video Gardening Series

Initial video segment “Pruning Tomatoes” launches with enthusiastic response.

Winslow, ME – July 21, 2008 – Johnny’s Selected Seeds, purveyor of superior quality seeds, and Natick, MA based GrowingWisdom.com, a website that produces weekly home and garden video content for the gardening enthusiast, announced the launching of a new internet-based video series for home gardeners.

Filming for the first four video segments completed this past June with topics including “Pruning Tomatoes,” “Harvesting Lettuce,” “Transplanting Seedlings,” and “Transplanting from Containers.” The videos will be launched via the GrowingWisdom.com website and a network of video sites including 5min.com, youTube.com, and iTunes.com.

“Gardening and home improvement programming has become incredibly popular over the past few years, and the Web is an ideal mechanism for distributing it,” said Lou Zambello, Director of Sales and Marketing, Johnny’s Selected Seeds. “We are excited to work with Growing Wisdom’s high-quality videos to help our customers learn more about the products they can buy here at Johnny’s.”

Dave Epstein, New England meteorologist, horticulturist, and founder of GrowingWisdom.com, said, “Johnny’s Selected Seeds has an extensive wealth of knowledge and varieties of product that will allow us to create an exciting series of video for home gardeners of all levels.”

The first video, “Pruning Tomatoes,” launched last week with the highest video debut “hit rate” in GrowingWisdom’s history. Plans for the second series of video from the Johnny’s Seeds and GrowingWisdom.com partnership are already under way with an early fall production schedule.

About Johnny’s Selected Seeds
Johnny’s Selected Seeds is an employee-owned, international, multi-channel seed merchant located in Albion and Winslow, Maine, USA.  The company was established in 1973 by Founder and Chairman Rob Johnston, Jr.  Johnny’s Selected Seeds mission is to provide superior products, research, technical information and customer service for small, specialty commercial growers and critical home gardeners.  Johnnyseeds.com

About Growing Wisdom
Hosted by well-known New England meteorologist and horticulturist David Epstein, Growing Wisdom is a weekly online video site presenting hands-on gardening advice and inspiration for home gardeners. The Growing Wisdom web site contains compelling articles, podcasts, and blogs that provide timely, week-by-week instruction on topics such as flower and vegetable gardens, lawn care, and garden pests. www.growingwisdom.com

About Dave Epstein
Dave Epstein is a lifelong horticulturist and environmentalist.  He is an on-air meteorologist at WCVB-TV in Boston and an instructor of meteorology at his alma mater, Colby College, Waterville, ME and Framingham State, MA. He is a former Vice President at Thomson Financial.  He makes frequent appearances at garden clubs and schools. His most recent book is Gardens of New England, published by Twin Lights Publishing.  He founded his landscape business, Bloomscapes, Inc., in 2002 and Growing Wisdom.com in 2006. He received his MS and MBA from Boston College.

Press Contacts:            
JOHNNY’S SELECTED SEEDS
Rob Coburn
Public Relations Director
Perry & Banks
(207)761-5957 (x322)

Alisa Keimel
Marketing & PR Manager
Johnny’s Selected Seeds
akeimel@johnnyseeds.com
207-861-3963

GROWING WISDOM
Mike Ciolino
Verve Creative Inc.
Mikec@getverve.com
617-332-9588 ext 305
http://www.getverve.com/

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Hosted by well-known New England meteorologist & horticulturist David Epstein, Growing Wisdom is a weekly online video site presenting hands-on gardening advice and inspiration for home gardeners. We specialize in video production for the green industry.