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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...
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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....
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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...
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What Soil to Put in a Raised Garden Bed for Better Harvests
What Soil to Put in a Raised Garden Bed for Better Harvests
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...
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,...
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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...
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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...
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How to Store Fresh Garden Vegetables Longer
How to Store Fresh Garden Vegetables Longer
Coming back from the garden with a basket full of freshly picked vegetables is one of my favorite moments. Bright red tomatoes, handfuls of green beans, fragrant basil or peppers—you can't buy produce that tastes quite like something picked fresh...
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How to Revive Heat-Stressed Vegetable Plants
How to Revive Heat-Stressed Vegetable Plants
Most gardeners have experienced it. You walk out to the garden after several days of scorching heat, expecting to see your vegetables thriving in the sun. Instead, your tomatoes are drooping, peppers have stopped flowering, and your lettuce has decided...
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What No One Tells You Before Growing Summer Drummer Alliums
What No One Tells You Before Growing Summer Drummer Alliums
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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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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