by BELL Garden | Feb 9, 2020
It’s February, which is the time to finish up the garden plan you’ve been working on and get some seeds started indoors! Today we are going to learn how to use recycled egg cartons to start a variety of seeds and then transplant them to larger pots until they are...
by BELL Garden | Jan 26, 2020
We have all been in the position where we are wanting to start giving our green thumb a go. Having seedlings sprout up is just about as heat warming to us gardeners as watching a child be born or watching our favorite pet grow up. We sometimes because of weather,...
by BELL Garden | Jan 25, 2020
Spring is here and the stores are full of tomato plants ready to be picked up and plopped in the ground. But when is the best time to do that? The first thing to think about is that tomatoes are warm weather plants, so you don’t want to get them in the ground until...
by BELL Garden | Jan 5, 2020
At the BELL Garden we try to promote gardening tactics that are accessible to the home gardener and reduce their workload while building fertility. Lasagna gardening (or sheet composting) is one method of bed preparation that is easy, effective and sustainable. It can...
by BELL Garden | Dec 15, 2019
Infusing herbs in oil is one of the easiest ways to extract the medicinal or culinary properties of herbs that make them so desirable. Using these infused herbal oils, different body care products like salves, lip balms, lotions and massage oils can be made. You can...
by BELL Garden | Dec 12, 2019
Last week we learned how to infuse our own herbal oils. Today, we are going to learn how to make our own healing salve using what we made. What is a Salve? A salve is a versatile ointment applied to the surface of the body. It can be used to help heal small wounds,...
