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How to Prepare Container Plants for Winter
How to Prepare Container Plants for Winter
Growing in containers can give you added flexibility when the weather turns cold. You can move a potted plant to a sheltered place, bring tender plants indoors, or protect the roots with extra insulation. But containers also have one disadvantage:...
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How to Protect Your Raised Beds From Snow and Freezing Temperatures
How to Protect Your Raised Beds From Snow and Freezing Temperatures
Your garden may look quiet as winter sets in, but there’s often still work to be done. Some hardy vegetables might keep growing, and certain plants may need extra protection, and your raised beds need to be ready for whatever...
7 min read
Greenhouse vs. Frost Cover: Which Is Better for Extending Your Growing Season?
Greenhouse vs. Frost Cover: Which Is Better for Extending Your Growing Season?
Winter is often referred to as the fallow season – a time when motivation dwindles to the negatives and fields lay barren. While often peddled as a season of cheery Christmas lights and banal platitudes that celebrate the sanctity of...
3 min read
How to Winterize Your Garden Irrigation System
How to Winterize Your Garden Irrigation System
Your tomatoes are starting to slow down, leaves are changing, and your irrigation system is suddenly running less often. That's when it's worth thinking about what is still holding water in your hoses, tubing, and valves. If temperatures in your...
7 min read
When Should You Cover Your Vegetable Garden for Frost?
When Should You Cover Your Vegetable Garden for Frost?
One day you're picking tomatoes and cucumbers, and the next you're checking the forecast wondering whether you need to cover up your crops. You don't need to panic or shield the entire garden just because frost is approaching. A bit...
7 min read
What to Grow in a Greenhouse This Fall and Winter
What to Grow in a Greenhouse This Fall and Winter
A greenhouse can extend your gardening season long after summer crops begin to fade. It provides a protected place for your vegetables as the nights get colder, like seedlings, herbs, or tender plants that would struggle outdoors as temperatures drop....
7 min read
How to Avoid the “False Spring” and Choose Climate-Resilient Varieties
How to Avoid the “False Spring” and Choose Climate-Resilient Varieties
My fellow gardeners, many of you might remember the first time you were fooled by a warm stretch in late winter. The soil was finally workable and signs of the spring season seem obvious, and then a sudden frost wipes...
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Cold-Season Vegetables That Taste Better After Frost
Cold-Season Vegetables That Taste Better After Frost
Going outside for a run feels like an exercise in sadism. It’s not every day that gardeners find the motivation to crawl outside, never mind putting a heaping of vegetables on their plate.  Interestingly enough, there are some cold-hardy vegetables...
4 min read
12 Large Indoor Plants for Your Home
12 Large Indoor Plants for Your Home
A new purchase is always a big decision, especially if it’s on the more costly side. But for many gardeners, houseplants are crucial in a home.  Most gardeners seek houseplants that accomplish the basics: they look good and do their...
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Growing Tomato Vines: Trellises or Cages?
Growing Tomato Vines: Trellises or Cages?
My fellow gardeners, are you conflicted on whether to use trellises and cages for growing your tomato vines? This has been my dilemma as well in the past. Trellises are often the superior choice for indeterminate varieties in space-constrained gardens,...
3 min read

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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