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How to Know When Cucumbers Are Ready to Harvest (Before They Turn Bitter)
How to Know When Cucumbers Are Ready to Harvest (Before They Turn Bitter)
The tricky part about growing cucumbers is that they do not always give obvious signals that they are ready. Leave them on the vine too long, and that crisp, refreshing cucumber can turn into something with tough skin, large seeds,...
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How to Protect Your Garden From the First Frost
How to Protect Your Garden From the First Frost
There's usually some panic that comes with the first frost. You look at the garden and suddenly see all the tomatoes that haven't ripened, or herbs you've been harvesting all summer. The forecast says temperatures are about to drop, and...
5 min read
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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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...
5 min read
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...
5 min read
What Grows Best in a Greenhouse Through Each Season?
What Grows Best in a Greenhouse Through Each Season?
Having a greenhouse can change the way you garden. You have a little more control over temperature and growing conditions. A greenhouse can give seedlings an earlier start in spring, protect your crops, extend harvests into fall, and provide a...
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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 Your Garden Alive While You're Away
How to Keep Your Garden Alive While You're Away
Leaving a thriving summer garden behind can mean a lot of stress for gardeners. You can spend months nurturing tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, herbs, and flowers, only to wonder whether they'll still be alive when you get back. August makes the...
5 min read
What to Plant in Raised Garden Beds for a Beautiful, Productive Season
What to Plant in Raised Garden Beds for a Beautiful, Productive Season
There is something deeply satisfying about standing in front of a freshly filled raised bed, seed packets in hand, imagining everything that will grow there over the coming months. Raised garden beds give you rich, loose soil, better drainage, and...
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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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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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