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Kelly: Nelson, BC, Canada

Bio: Kelly is a native prairie girl used to huge fields of mustard and wheat. When she moved out to Vancouver, B.C. she discovered an area where gardening could be done almost three-fourths of the year and went nuts. From there she moved to Nelson, B.C. a small city nestled on the side of the Kootenay mountains. She is currently planning her next move - but is not quite sure where that'll be yet. When she's not playing with her plants she works (mostly for free) in the art department for films, takes lots of photos, and can be seen haunting the isles of her local art store where she works to pay the bills.

Email: thedirt@yougrowgirl.com

URL: http://www.populuxe.ca

Don’t have room for a garden? Knit Your Own!

So besides being an avid gardening, I've an avid knitter. That means I'm always looking for cool new things to knit up. Today I got the idea in my head "hey, what about knitting plants??" So after a little searching I found these awesome knit plants that you can

Kelly : April 13th, 2006 : 4 Comments: Posted in: Projects, Link

A little update

So I thought I'd make a little update because I've been thinking a lot about gardening lately, but it's been all thinking and no action. After we had are weird little cold snap about a month ago (it snowed, do you hear me?) I got all down and thought

Kelly : April 7th, 2006 : 3 Comments: Posted in: Journal

Spring? In January?

It all started last week. On my way to work I noticed a dogwood tree, and the very beginning of some blossoms. I thought to myself, no way, my eyes are fooling me! I live in a warm climate, but it's only the second week

Kelly : January 16th, 2006 : 8 Comments: Posted in: Places, Seasonal, Spring, Winter

June Update

It's time for the update, and I'm pleased. Well, sort of. My garden is going slower than I would have liked, but it's going strong regardless. Finally, last weekend I got everything in the ground that'll be there for this year. That means I

Kelly : June 14th, 2005 : 3 Comments: Posted in: Journal

The New Plot

Today I threw in a few plants and a few seeds to my new garden just as the sun was going down and it started to rain. I'm glad I'm finally getting things started! The rest of the plants will be already started. I don't

Kelly : March 27th, 2005 : 8 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Flowers, Herbs, Veggies, Seasonal, Seeds

New garden: Dug!

So I finally got it done - yesterday admist the gloom of a rainy day, I dug my garden. It only took me about 1.5-2 hours, and it's about 4x3 feet (I figured I could always expand it a bit more if I needed to). I

Kelly : March 7th, 2005 : 7 Comments: Posted in: Projects

Seed starting

I finally started my seeds today - a little later than I usually do, but what can I say? Unfortunately, due to the constrains of my place I don't have much room to start seeds indoors, so I'm leaving the bulk of my plants this year to direct sowing

Kelly : March 3rd, 2005 : No Comments: Posted in: Seasonal

And so it begins.

I took at stroll down to Granville Island (which isn't an island, nor is it on Granville St.), where I happened upon a gardening shop that I had never seen before. Besides all the cool garden supplies they already had a good stock of herb, veggie and

Kelly : February 24th, 2005 : 4 Comments: Posted in: Projects

New year!

So I thought I'd finally make another update on this blog since I haven't done so in [insert embarrassing long ago date here]. It's a new year, and with that I'm planning on good things for my garden. Since moving to urban Vancouver I haven't had my little

Kelly : January 11th, 2005 : 2 Comments: Posted in: Journal, Places, Projects, Info

Time to show off my handywork.

Well, it's definately smaller than my own patch of land last year, but at least it's something and I love it. So, while planting yesterday I took photos to share with everybody! Let's start with a few establishing shots, shall we (including the lovely gravel driveway I open

Kelly : May 16th, 2004 : 11 Comments: Posted in: Containers

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