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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...
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How to Keep Your Garden Alive While You're Away
How to Keep Your Garden Alive While You're Away
Leaving a thriving summer garden behind can mean a lot of stress for gardeners. You can spend months nurturing tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, herbs, and flowers, only to wonder whether they'll still be alive when you get back. August makes the...
5 min read
What to Plant in Raised Garden Beds for a Beautiful, Productive Season
What to Plant in Raised Garden Beds for a Beautiful, Productive Season
There is something deeply satisfying about standing in front of a freshly filled raised bed, seed packets in hand, imagining everything that will grow there over the coming months. Raised garden beds give you rich, loose soil, better drainage, and...
4 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...
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,...
3 min read
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 Keep Cucumbers Producing All Summer
How to Keep Cucumbers Producing All Summer
Growing cucumbers is a gratifying experience. One day, you notice just a few yellow flowers. A few days later, cucumbers start appearing out of nowhere. Before long, you're harvesting enough for salads, sandwiches, and pickles.  Fast forward a few more...
4 min read
Signs Your Raised Bed Soil Needs More Compost
Signs Your Raised Bed Soil Needs More Compost
One of the biggest misconceptions about raised bed gardening is that you only need to fill the bed once. With my first raised beds, I filled them with a good soil mix, planted tomatoes, peppers, and herbs, and enjoyed a...
4 min read

About Vego

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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