Johnny’s Roadside Market

Bedding and Vegetable Plant Nursery. Top products: bedding plants, vegetable plants, flowering hanging baskets, greenhouse tomatoes, fall mums, pumpkins. Johnny’s Roadside Market Garden, established in 1949 in Enfield, CT, is a multi-generational horticultural operation and farm. Founded by John Swols, the business transitioned from a tobacco-growing heritage to a diversified market garden utilizing its own wood-framed greenhouses. The farm specializes in the propagation and sale of a wide variety of bedding and vegetable plants, as well as decorative flowering hanging baskets. Their horticultural production is synchronized with seasonal cycles, beginning with plant sales in late April and transitioning into a full-scale farm stand operation by early July. In addition to their nursery stock, the farm is recognized for its production of greenhouse and field-grown tomatoes, including heirloom varieties, alongside seasonal crops such as fall mums and pumpkins. The operation serves the local community by providing direct-to-consumer access to nursery-grown starts and fresh produce, maintaining a traditional 'farm-to-table' business model.