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How to Know When Cucumbers Are Ready to Harvest (Before They Turn Bitter)
How to Know When Cucumbers Are Ready to Harvest (Before They Turn Bitter)
The tricky part about growing cucumbers is that they do not always give obvious signals that they are ready. Leave them on the vine too long, and that crisp, refreshing cucumber can turn into something with tough skin, large seeds,...
3 min read
How to Protect Your Garden From the First Frost
How to Protect Your Garden From the First Frost
There's usually some panic that comes with the first frost. You look at the garden and suddenly see all the tomatoes that haven't ripened, or herbs you've been harvesting all summer. The forecast says temperatures are about to drop, and...
5 min read
Unusual Sunflowers to Grow in the Garden
Unusual Sunflowers to Grow in the Garden
Unusual colors and flower mutations always prompt fascination among gardeners. Sunflowers are one of those oddities that manage to break a few trends: a deep-seated disgust with the color yellow, and appearing at a frequency rare enough to deem them...
4 min read
6 Signs Your Strawberries Are Perfectly Ripe Before You Harvest Them
6 Signs Your Strawberries Are Perfectly Ripe Before You Harvest Them
Strawberry patches are fun to watch grow. At first, they look like nothing more than leafy green plants with small white flowers in your garden beds, and then suddenly, bright red berries begin peeking through the leaves. After weeks of...
3 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
What Grows Best in a Greenhouse Through Each Season?
What Grows Best in a Greenhouse Through Each Season?
Having a greenhouse can change the way you garden. You have a little more control over temperature and growing conditions. A greenhouse can give seedlings an earlier start in spring, protect your crops, extend harvests into fall, and provide a...
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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
Tomato plant with blossom end rot showing dark sunken patch on the bottom of the fruit
How to Fix and Prevent Blossom End Rot on Tomatoes
Few things are more disappointing than spotting a large, beautiful tomato, and then noticing a dark, sunken patch developing on the bottom. The first time I encountered blossom end rot, I assumed my tomato was diseased.  Like many gardeners, I...
5 min read
How to Build an Elevated Garden Bed for Easy and Comfortable Gardening
How to Build an Elevated Garden Bed for Easy and Comfortable Gardening
Gardening should never hurt. Yet anyone who has spent an afternoon on their knees weeding or crouching over ground-level rows knows that traditional gardens can be hard on the body. Elevated garden beds solve this quietly and beautifully. By raising...
4 min read
How to Keep Pollinators in Your Garden All Summer
How to Keep Pollinators in Your Garden All Summer
My favorite moment in the garden isn't just harvesting the first tomato or picking the first cucumber. It's stepping outside on a warm summer morning and hearing the gentle hum of bees among flowers. Pollinators are some of the hardest-working...
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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