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How to Keep Cucumbers Producing All Summer
How to Keep Cucumbers Producing All Summer
Growing cucumbers is a gratifying experience. One day, you notice just a few yellow flowers. A few days later, cucumbers start appearing out of nowhere. Before long, you're harvesting enough for salads, sandwiches, and pickles.  Fast forward a few more...
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Signs Your Raised Bed Soil Needs More Compost
Signs Your Raised Bed Soil Needs More Compost
One of the biggest misconceptions about raised bed gardening is that you only need to fill the bed once. With my first raised beds, I filled them with a good soil mix, planted tomatoes, peppers, and herbs, and enjoyed a...
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Plants that Attract Dragonflies to the Garden
Plants that Attract Dragonflies to the Garden
Summer is here, and the bloodsuckers are out in full force. If you’re the romantic sort, you might conjure notions of blooming crepe myrtles and cypress trees under the sweltering sun, set against the backdrop of languid, humid parties. But...
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10 Colorful Veggies that Go Well with Flowers
10 Colorful Veggies that Go Well with Flowers
To many gardeners, vegetable patches and flowers are like fire and water, living in strict segregation from each other. Vegetables were the utilitarian workers that lived to serve, ultimately ending up on salad plates, while flowers were the showy aristocrats...
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How to Freeze and Dry Your Herbs
How to Freeze and Dry Your Herbs
There's a point every summer when my herb garden seems to grow faster than I can manage it. One week, I'm snipping a few sprigs of basil for the kitchen. By the next, my basil has become a leafy jungle,...
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3 Ways to Store Your Summer Harvest
3 Ways to Store Your Summer Harvest
If you have been gardening for a while, you’ve probably experienced this. After weeks of watering, weeding, and watching plants grow, all your plants seem to ripen at once. Tomatoes are piling up, cucumbers keep growing faster than you can...
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Summer Gardening Tips: Beat the Heat & Drought in July
Summer Gardening Tips: Beat the Heat & Drought in July
By the time July rolls around, the excitement of spring planting has given way to one of the biggest challenges of the gardening season: keeping everything alive through the heat. Tomatoes are loaded with fruit, cucumbers seem to grow overnight,...
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The Stormy Weather Checklist for Your Garden
The Stormy Weather Checklist for Your Garden
Summer is the season when gardens look amazing and full of life, but are also at their most vulnerable. Especially when the weather forecast changes. Thunderstorms might move through the area, bringing heavy rain and gusty winds, and suddenly you're...
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How to Get Rid of Squash Vine Borers
How to Get Rid of Squash Vine Borers
Much like a poison that can topple kingdoms, it is often said that the deadliest operatives infiltrate from within, besieging the targeted organization through underhand, clandestine tactics. Squash borers, the scourge of squash gardeners everywhere, have mastered the art, becoming...
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Beginner's Guide to Plant Supports
Beginner's Guide to Plant Supports
Plants almost always grow bigger than you expect. Every spring, I tell myself I'll stay ahead of my tomatoes. Install supports early, tie up the vines regularly, and keep everything neat. Every year, I'm reminded that giving vegetables proper support...
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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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