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Seed Saving 101: How to Harvest and Store Seeds from Your Best Plants
Seed Saving 101: How to Harvest and Store Seeds from Your Best Plants
By August, the garden starts giving you clues about which plants really earned their place. Maybe your largest pepper came from a particularly healthy plant, or your basil has stayed productive despite weeks of summer heat. Instead of letting their...
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Vegetables to Plant in August for a Big November Harvest
Vegetables to Plant in August for a Big November Harvest
Your garden might look a little tired by August. Tomato vines are sprawling, and the lettuce you planted in spring is long gone. After months of harvesting, it's tempting to think the gardening season is winding down. Then I started...
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3 Best Lemon Tree Varieties to Grow in Rolling Planters
3 Best Lemon Tree Varieties to Grow in Rolling Planters
There are many different types of lemon trees you can grow, but most gardeners tend to gravitate toward the ones they already recognize, those commonly found in grocery stores or widely sold at nurseries. In this blog, the focus is...
3 min read
Hori Hori Knife: A Gardening Must-Have for the Toughest Weeds
Hori Hori Knife: A Gardening Must-Have for the Toughest Weeds
  Some weeds, like the insidious bindweed, are pretty. Thistles do not have such a luxury – they are prickly all over, from their scraggly, overly aggressive foliage to their spiky flowerheads, which sprout like strange eruptions from the roadside....
4 min read
How to Protect Tomatoes and Peppers from Sunscald
How to Protect Tomatoes and Peppers from Sunscald
You've watered consistently, tied up the vines, and waited patiently for weeks. Then one afternoon, you notice a leathery patch on the side of the fruit. A few days later, that spot turned brown and sunken. The first time it...
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What Soil to Put in a Raised Garden Bed for Better Harvests
What Soil to Put in a Raised Garden Bed for Better Harvests
Your raised bed is only as good as what you put in it. You can build the most beautiful garden frame in the world, but if you fill it with the wrong soil, your tomatoes will sulk, your carrots will...
4 min read
What to Know About Jerusalem Crickets
What to Know About Jerusalem Crickets
If you really want to roast someone properly, liken them to a Jerusalem cricket. Jerusalem crickets, also known as "potato bugs" or "earth children" by the Navajo Indians, are rather funny-looking insects. Unlike gossamer-winged dragonflies, they are flightless, with bald,...
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Why Your Olive Tree Is Dying: 19 Problems Most Gardeners Miss
Why Your Olive Tree Is Dying: 19 Problems Most Gardeners Miss
Olive trees are real statement pieces, they bring Mediterranean character to a home and soften a facade, but when one starts to decline, it quickly becomes a source of stress, especially since they aren’t exactly cheap to replace. The truth...
5 min read
What to Do with Too Many Tomatoes?
What to Do with Too Many Tomatoes?
Every tomato gardener dreams of having "too many tomatoes.” at least once.  One week, you're impatiently waiting for the first ripe tomato to turn red. Next, you're carrying baskets of them into the kitchen, wondering where you're going to put...
4 min read
How to Store Fresh Garden Vegetables Longer
How to Store Fresh Garden Vegetables Longer
Coming back from the garden with a basket full of freshly picked vegetables is one of my favorite moments. Bright red tomatoes, handfuls of green beans, fragrant basil or peppers—you can't buy produce that tastes quite like something picked fresh...
4 min read

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At Vego Garden, our goal is to redefine Raised Garden Beds. The company was founded with the goal of launching a modular metal garden bed system with a 20+ year life expectancy, utilizing eco-friendly metal materials instead of cutting down trees. We emphasize innovative design and high quality with our products. The name vego carries the spirit of DIY modular raised beds suitable for growing vegetables.

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