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What Vegetables Can Survive Frost? A Guide to Frost-Tolerant Crops
What Vegetables Can Survive Frost? A Guide to Frost-Tolerant Crops
Contrary to popular belief, some vegetables tolerate frost surprisingly well. Cool-season crops such as kale, spinach, and Brussels sprouts can often keep growing when vegetables like tomatoes or peppers have already called it quits. The important distinction is how cold...
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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 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
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
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...
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Measures to Deal with Soil Hardening & Compaction
Measures to Deal with Soil Hardening & Compaction
After some years of gardening, I have come to realize how much healthy vegetables depend on healthy soil. One summer, I noticed my tomatoes weren't growing as quickly as usual. The leaves looked healthy enough, but watering seemed strange. Instead...
4 min read
Irrigation Tips for the Summer Season
Irrigation Tips for the Summer Season
Gardening in the summer season can turn into a balancing act surprisingly fast. One week your tomatoes look perfect, and the next they’re drooping. Cucumbers dry out overnight, and all of a sudden, you’re watering more often than you expected....
4 min read
The Top 10 Spring Gardening Essential Tools
The Top 10 Spring Gardening Essential Tools
Spring gardening has a rhythm. One week you might be preparing garden beds, the next you’re planting, and before you know it, everything is growing faster than you expect. Having the right tools on hand doesn’t just make things easier,...
4 min read
Hardening Off 101: Moving Seedlings Outdoors in April
Hardening Off 101: Moving Seedlings Outdoors in April
If you’ve been nurturing your seedlings indoors all winter, April feels like the month you’ve been waiting for. Temperatures are rising and it’s finally time to get your plants into the garden. But here’s the catch: seedlings raised indoors are...
4 min read
How to Plan and Maintain a Prairie Style Garden
How to Plan and Maintain a Prairie Style Garden
A prairie brings to mind expanses of rolling grassland dotted with wildflowers, harkening back to a time past when much of America was still rural pastureland. Today, much of that bucolic setting is gone – replaced by modern high-rises and...
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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