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How to Prepare Your Garden for Spring Before Winter
How to Prepare Your Garden for Spring Before Winter
Some of the best spring gardening work happens before winter even arrives, even though spring might still be months away.  A few hours spent preparing your garden in late fall can mean healthier soil, fewer weeds, less cleanup, and a...
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How to Use a Greenhouse to Extend Your Growing Season Into Winter
How to Use a Greenhouse to Extend Your Growing Season Into Winter
Even after the first frost and significant drop in temperatures, a greenhouse can give you weeks or even months of additional growing time by offering a more protected environment than an open garden. It shelters plants from wind, rain, and...
7 min read
The Joy of Slow Gardening
The Joy of Slow Gardening
Failed states, defined by massive debt, authoritarian leadership, deepening dissent, and brutal secret police forces, are not good places to live. While the global landscape may seem bleak, teetering on the brink of a downward spiral, many gardeners have found...
4 min read
Managing Late Summer Burnout: The Minimum Effective Care Checklist
Managing Late Summer Burnout: The Minimum Effective Care Checklist
By late summer, managing your garden can start to feel like a chore. Plants are growing everywhere, tomatoes need picking, and the list of things you have to maintain keeps getting longer. But your garden does not need your constant...
4 min read
Late Summer Vegetable Garden Troubleshooting Guide
Late Summer Vegetable Garden Troubleshooting Guide
By late summer, your vegetable garden can look somewhat different from the one you planted in spring. The plants are bigger, the harvests are heavier, and the weather is less forgiving.  Some of your spring vegetables are clearing out, and...
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
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...
4 min read
5 Garden Hacks for July
5 Garden Hacks for July
For gardeners, the month of July is all about paying attention. Tomatoes are finally ripening, cucumbers seem to appear overnight, and your beans are climbing higher by the day.  July often brings scorching temperatures, heavy thunderstorms, humidity, and longer dry...
4 min read
How to Build an Elevated Garden Bed for Easy and Comfortable Gardening
How to Build an Elevated Garden Bed for Easy and Comfortable Gardening
Gardening should never hurt. Yet anyone who has spent an afternoon on their knees weeding or crouching over ground-level rows knows that traditional gardens can be hard on the body. Elevated garden beds solve this quietly and beautifully. By raising...
4 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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