"Hardening-Off" & Planting Out Hardy Annual Flowers &Vegetables
If you started cool weather seeds with me a few weeks ago, it's now time to harden them off and get them planted out.
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Mar 11, 2022
- 5 min
Flower and Vegetable Seeds to Start in March!
It may still be snowing outside, but it's time to start hardy, cool weather loving vegetable and flower seeds inside now!
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Jan 1, 2022
- 3 min
Gardeners Grow Together: Planting Spring Bulbs Late in the Season
Planting Fall planted, Spring flowering bulbs late in the season
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Oct 8, 2021
- 3 min
Gardeners Grow Together~Week 42 October, 2021: Plants to Divide in Autumn
Plants to divide in Autumn.
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Sep 9, 2021
- 3 min
Zany Zinnias
Bright, cheerful, prolific Zinnias are the work horses of the flower garden.
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Aug 27, 2021
- 5 min
Grow Together~Week 35 August, 2021: Plants to Save Seeds from Now
Plants to save seeds from now.
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Aug 20, 2021
- 4 min
Gardeners Grow Together~Week 34 August, 2021: Seeds to Plant in August
Seeds to plant in August
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Jul 16, 2021
- 3 min
Gardeners Grow Together~Week 29 July, 2021: They're Back! Controlling Japanese Beetles
Controlling Japanese beetles
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Jul 8, 2021
- 3 min
Gardeners Grow Together~Week 28 July, 2021:Tomatoes & Lilies & Beasties, Oh, My!
Unexpected Garden Visitors; Blossom End Rot on Tomatoes; Staking Lilies
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Jul 2, 2021
- 4 min
Gardeners Grow Together Week 27, July, 2021: Bringing Wildlife to the Garden
Ways to invite beneficial wildlife into our gardens.
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Jun 25, 2021
- 3 min
Gardeners Grow Together Week 26, June, 2021:Training Roses; Tickling Tomatoes
"Tickling" Tomatoes for a better harvest; Training Climbing Roses for more blooms.
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Jun 18, 2021
- 3 min
Gardeners Grow Together Week 25, June, 2021: Pruning Lilacs; Dividing Iris
Pruning Lilacs, Dividing Bearded Iris; Sowing Chinese Cabbage and more Salad Greens
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Jun 11, 2021
- 2 min
Gardeners Grow Together Week 24, June, 2021: Biennials
It's time to plant biennials, like foxglove, wallflowers and hollyhocks from seed for flowers next year!
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Jun 4, 2021
- 5 min
Gardeners Grow Together Week 23, June, 2021: Easy Beginner Plants
Easy to grow vegetables and flowers for beginner gardeners.
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Lee Ann McGinty
- May 28, 2021
- 6 min
Gardeners Grow Together Week 22, May, 2021: Now the Fun Begins!
It's time to get tomatoes and peppers in the the ground! Preparing Peonies, Poppies, Lilacs and Iris for cut flowers.
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Lee Ann McGinty
- May 21, 2021
- 4 min
Gardeners Grow Together Week 21, May, 2021: Exciting Times!
Now it's time to put all those seedlings in the ground!
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Lee Ann McGinty
- May 13, 2021
- 3 min
Gardeners Grow Together Week 20, May, 2021: Fine Tuning!
Pinching peas, mounding potatoes, rhubarb flowers, sweet peas, staking peonies, potting up dahlias.
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Lee Ann McGinty
- May 7, 2021
- 3 min
Gardeners Grow Together Week 19, May, 2021: The May Garden!
Harvesting first veggies of the year, Hardening off plants, starting tender annuals from seed, planting lilies and gladiolus.
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Apr 30, 2021
- 4 min
Gardeners Grow Together Week 18, April, 2021: Crunch Time!
Timing is everything right now.
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Lee Ann McGinty
- Apr 23, 2021
- 6 min
Gardeners Grow Together Week 17, April, 2021: Annual Climbers
Go vertical! Discover the wonderful world of annual climbers.
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Hello. Thank you for visiting the historic Valmont Valley Farm, located in rural Boulder, Colorado. My name is Lee Ann McGinty, I'm the flower farmer, sole proprietor, and 4th generation resident of Valmont Valley Farm. I am delighted to be able to share my beautiful, organic, and sustainably grown flowers with you and the people you love. Please browse my online store, or visit me at the farm stand to fill your life with colorful, hand-picked bouquets. Thank you for supporting local farms like the Valmont Valley Farm, where colorful magic is always in bloom.
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