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Best Materials for Raised Garden Beds: A Gardener's Guide
Best Materials for Raised Garden Beds: A Gardener's Guide
Building a raised garden bed is one of the most rewarding decisions a gardener can make. You control the soil, improve drainage, extend your growing season, and save your knees from years of bending. But before you fill a single...
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Managing Late Summer Burnout: The Minimum Effective Care Checklist
Managing Late Summer Burnout: The Minimum Effective Care Checklist
By late summer, managing your garden can start to feel like a chore. Plants are growing everywhere, tomatoes need picking, and the list of things you have to maintain keeps getting longer. But your garden does not need your constant...
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Late Summer Vegetable Garden Troubleshooting Guide
Late Summer Vegetable Garden Troubleshooting Guide
By late summer, your vegetable garden can look somewhat different from the one you planted in spring. The plants are bigger, the harvests are heavier, and the weather is less forgiving.  Some of your spring vegetables are clearing out, and...
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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...
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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...
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How to Tell When Zucchini Is Ready to Pick: 8 Tips Gardeners Swear By
How to Tell When Zucchini Is Ready to Pick: 8 Tips Gardeners Swear By
Zucchini might be one of the easiest vegetables to grow, but knowing when to harvest it can be surprisingly tricky. Pick it too early, and you may miss out on size, but wait too long, and you can end up...
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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...
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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...
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How to Prepare Your Garden for a Fall Harvest
How to Prepare Your Garden for a Fall Harvest
It can feel like the gardening season is winding down in August. But experienced gardeners know that August is actually one of the busiest planning months of the year. In fact, fall garden preparation often starts during summer. The key...
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Insects That Look Dangerous But Are Harmless
Insects That Look Dangerous But Are Harmless
Early humans quickly learned to fear venomous snakes that lurked in dark crevices, drawn to the pulse of lifeblood. As a collective, humanity has learned to move past its fear of snakes, but the fear of the uncanny valley exists,...
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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.

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