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Best Cover Crops for Small Raised Beds: What to Plant Before Winter
Best Cover Crops for Small Raised Beds: What to Plant Before Winter
When the garden has slowed and the last vegetables are coming out of your raised beds, it's tempting to leave the soil until spring. But leaving your beds empty doesn't have to mean bare soil. Planting a cover crop before...
9 min read
How to Prepare Container Plants for Winter
How to Prepare Container Plants for Winter
Growing in containers can give you added flexibility when the weather turns cold. You can move a potted plant to a sheltered place, bring tender plants indoors, or protect the roots with extra insulation. But containers also have one disadvantage:...
8 min read
How to Plant Fall Garlic for Massive Heads Next Summer
How to Plant Fall Garlic for Massive Heads Next Summer
Garlic is one of those wonderful crops that asks for very little and then rewards you months later. You plant it in fall, let it settle in through winter, and finally dig up full bulbs in early or mid-summer. That...
7 min read
How to Refresh Raised Beds Between Summer and Fall Crops
How to Refresh Raised Beds Between Summer and Fall Crops
There’s a time in late summer when a raised bed can look both productive and exhausted at the same time. The tomatoes are still ripening, and maybe a cucumber vine is producing its last crop. But take a closer look...
6 min read
What Can You Still Plant in August? A Zone-by-Zone Guide
What Can You Still Plant in August? A Zone-by-Zone Guide
August can be a funny month in the garden. The tomatoes and zucchinis are coming in faster than you can eat them, while some of your spring crops are a distant memory. You might look at the empty spaces in...
5 min read
How to Handle August Zucchini and Pepper Overload
How to Handle August Zucchini and Pepper Overload
Every August, there comes a point when the garden stops asking whether you want more food. The zucchini that was small a few days ago has suddenly grown big. Peppers seem to ripen in every corner of the plant. Your...
6 min read
Why Your Plants Stop Setting Fruit in Late July
Why Your Plants Stop Setting Fruit in Late July
I hear the same question every summer: "My tomato plant is big...so why am I barely getting any tomatoes?" Usually, the plant is healthy. The leaves are lush and green, and the stems keep growing. But the fruit just isn't...
4 min read
Save Money by Planting Perennial Crops in Your Garden
Save Money by Planting Perennial Crops in Your Garden
A gardener’s dream is for all crops to be perennial, so there’s no need to worry about replanting each season, but that’s rarely the case. Only a few crops truly fit this description. Those with lifespans of 10 years or...
4 min read
Lessons Learned in 2025: Gardening Mistakes to Avoid
Lessons Learned in 2025: Gardening Mistakes to Avoid
Recounting from experiences in my own backyard, many of the classic gardening mistakes in 2025 aren't fancy or new ones - they're the ones we all repeat when we're too excited, absent minded or forgetful. After another year of triumphs,...
3 min read
Year-Round Gardening: A Guide to Choosing the Perfect Greenhouse
Year-Round Gardening: A Guide to Choosing the Perfect Greenhouse
Fellow gardeners, are you mourning the last of your tomatoes or greens as winter approaches, and starting to count the days until spring planting? What if I told you there's a way to stretch your growing season by months—and create...
3 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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