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Tips on How to Train Jasmine Vines to Cover a Porch Naturally and Evenly
Tips on How to Train Jasmine Vines to Cover a Porch Naturally and Evenly
If you want jasmine to transform your porch into a lush, flowering green frame, the key thing to understand is that it won’t do it neatly on its own. Jasmine needs early direction, consistent training, and regular adjustments to create...
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Silver Plants in the Garden
Silver Plants in the Garden
Silver is not a favored color in the garden, evoking a melancholy tone that brings to mind a doomed starlet in the winter of her reign. But there is also a glamorous beauty in the color silver, alluding to bygone...
4 min read
Insects that Mimic Ladybugs
Insects that Mimic Ladybugs
In nature, creatures that mimic other creatures always arouse suspicion, for a brightly colored marking quickly becomes the jaws of the beast. Defensive mimicry, used in defense against predators, is far more innocuous than aggressive mimicry, a tactic intended to...
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What to Do About June Bugs in the Garden
What to Do About June Bugs in the Garden
Late spring or early summer is the season for clumsy beetles bumping into lights or hovering around plants, otherwise known as June bugs. They show up every year in many gardens across North America, especially as temperatures warm up toward...
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Tall Flowers That Add Impact to Your Garden
Tall Flowers That Add Impact to Your Garden
Time is money, which means that many gardeners are increasingly seeking solutions that don’t require them to sweat like an exorcist during the Crusades. Those days, if you want something ancient, prestigious, and towering over commoners, tall flowers are the...
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Vegetables That Grow Better on Trellises
Vegetables That Grow Better on Trellises
A big gardening mistake I made early on was assuming every vegetable belonged on the ground. After a while, cucumbers sprawled across paths, pole beans tangled themselves around nearby plants, and vines wanted to explore every corner of the garden....
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Tomato Cage Problems Every Gardener Runs Into
Tomato Cage Problems Every Gardener Runs Into
Tomato cages are a helpful tool in the garden, keeping fruit off the ground, improving airflow around the plant, and supporting heavy branches so tomatoes stay protected from pests and are easier to harvest throughout the season. However, they can...
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Bad Fruit: Removing Bradford Pears from the Garden
Bad Fruit: Removing Bradford Pears from the Garden
The Flowers of Evil has been described as beautifully morbid, juxtaposed against the rotting sewage of the masses. The flowers of Callery pears, though not visibly malefic, are an entire heaping of bad news.  The Bradford pear’s growth pattern can...
4 min read
Bane or Cure: The World of Poison Gardens
Bane or Cure: The World of Poison Gardens
You’re stumbling through a jungle, dehydrated and bone-weary, when you come across curious white flowers. You wonder whether they might alleviate the slash that you received from a thorny vine or just make it worse. Many poisonous flowers, from black...
3 min read
How to Build a Pollinator-Friendly Vegetable Garden
How to Build a Pollinator-Friendly Vegetable Garden
A few years ago, I noticed something strange in my garden. One raised bed was overflowing with cucumbers, squash, and tomatoes. Another bed, planted with nearly the same crops, was producing noticeably less. The soil was similar, the watering schedule...
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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