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Seed Saving 101: How to Harvest and Store Seeds from Your Best Plants

#Cultivation #DIY #Garden Beds #Garden Prep #garden to table #harvest #organic gardening #Outdoors #Plant Cultivation #Seed Saving #Seeds

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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What Soil to Put in a Raised Garden Bed for Better Harvests

#beginner-friendly #Cultivation #edible plants #Garden Beds #garden planning #garden to table #harvest #Plant Cultivation #Plant Selection and Care #Raised Beds

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...

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What to Know About Jerusalem Crickets

#Cultivation #gardening tips #gardens #insects #pest control #pests #plant care #Plant Cultivation

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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What to Do with Too Many Tomatoes？

#edible plants #food #Food Storage #Garden Prep #garden to table #gardening tips #gardening tools #Plant Cultivation #plants #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...

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What No One Tells You Before Growing Summer Drummer Alliums

#Cultivation #flowers #garden design #garden oasis #Garden Prep #Plant collections #Plant Cultivation #plants

Summer Drummer alliums look like something out of a fairytale garden, but there is a reason not every gardener ends up growing them successfully or sticking with them long-term. While they are not considered high-maintenance in the traditional sense, they...

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5 Garden Hacks for July

#Better Gardening #climate change #eco-friendly #edible plants #food #Food Storage #hacks #harvest #Organic Farming #Plant Cultivation #Plant Selection and Care #summer gardening

For gardeners, the month of July is all about paying attention. Tomatoes are finally ripening, cucumbers seem to appear overnight, and your beans are climbing higher by the day. July often brings scorching temperatures, heavy thunderstorms, humidity, and longer dry...

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What to Plant in a Raised Garden Bed: Best Vegetables, Flowers, and Herbs

#Better Gardening #edible plants #farming #flowers #food #Garden Beds #garden planning #herbs #organic gardening #Outdoors #Plant Cultivation #veggie garden

Imagine stepping outside on a warm morning, basket in hand, gathering ripe tomatoes still warm from the sun, a fistful of basil that perfumes the air the moment you pinch a leaf, and zinnias bright enough to light up your...

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10 Colorful Veggies that Go Well with Flowers

#edible plants #Garden recipes #garden to table #gardening tips #Organic Farming #Plant Cultivation #vegetables #veggie garden

To many gardeners, vegetable patches and flowers are like fire and water, living in strict segregation from each other. Vegetables were the utilitarian workers that lived to serve, ultimately ending up on salad plates, while flowers were the showy aristocrats...

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Why Your Plants Stop Setting Fruit in Late July

#Crop Rotation #easy gardening #eco-friendly #flowers #food #garden to table #harvest #Heat Tolerant #Plant Cultivation #plant health #Seasonal Gardening

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...

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3 Ways to Store Your Summer Harvest

#Better Gardening #food #Food Storage #Freeze Drying #Garden Prep #gardening tips #Plant Cultivation #tomatoes

If you have been gardening for a while, you’ve probably experienced this. After weeks of watering, weeding, and watching plants grow, all your plants seem to ripen at once. Tomatoes are piling up, cucumbers keep growing faster than you can...

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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.