My  “garden” recently consisted of a few countertop potted herbs in my downtown Vancouver apartment. Now that I have moved out into suburbia, I suddenly became the proud owner of a rather neglected piece of backyard. So my new favourite spare time activity: gardening.

As I am a huge believer in living the greenest lifestyle possible,  I am thrilled by the idea of growing my own vegetables and creating a home for bees, bats and butterflies (not all at the same spot of course, that wouldn’t go too well).

In this spring blog series, I will try out a new DIY green gardening project each month and hope to inspire you to do the same. Don’t worry if you don’t have a green thumb or you have two left hands – we’re in the same boat!

Project I – Start a veggie patch

Here on the West Coast, and in most Canadian parts, it’s still too cold to plant outside. But you can start growing your seeds indoors and have them ready for when spring has sprung.

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