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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...
5 min read
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
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...
4 min read
7 Signs Your Watermelon Is Ready to Harvest
7 Signs Your Watermelon Is Ready to Harvest
Few gardening moments are more disappointing than cutting open a homegrown watermelon only to discover it was picked too soon, or left on the vine a little too long. Unlike tomatoes or peaches, watermelons don't continue to ripen or increase...
3 min read
Seed Saving 101: How to Harvest and Store Seeds from Your Best Plants
Seed Saving 101: How to Harvest and Store Seeds from Your Best Plants
By August, the garden starts giving you clues about which plants really earned their place. Maybe your largest pepper came from a particularly healthy plant, or your basil has stayed productive despite weeks of summer heat. Instead of letting their...
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What Soil to Put in a Raised Garden Bed for Better Harvests
What Soil to Put in a Raised Garden Bed for Better Harvests
Your raised bed is only as good as what you put in it. You can build the most beautiful garden frame in the world, but if you fill it with the wrong soil, your tomatoes will sulk, your carrots will...
4 min read
How to Store Fresh Garden Vegetables Longer
How to Store Fresh Garden Vegetables Longer
Coming back from the garden with a basket full of freshly picked vegetables is one of my favorite moments. Bright red tomatoes, handfuls of green beans, fragrant basil or peppers—you can't buy produce that tastes quite like something picked fresh...
4 min read
What to Plant in a Raised Garden Bed: Best Vegetables, Flowers, and Herbs
What to Plant in a Raised Garden Bed: Best Vegetables, Flowers, and Herbs
Imagine stepping outside on a warm morning, basket in hand, gathering ripe tomatoes still warm from the sun, a fistful of basil that perfumes the air the moment you pinch a leaf, and zinnias bright enough to light up your...
4 min read
Tomato plant with blossom end rot showing dark sunken patch on the bottom of the fruit
How to Fix and Prevent Blossom End Rot on Tomatoes
Few things are more disappointing than spotting a large, beautiful tomato, and then noticing a dark, sunken patch developing on the bottom. The first time I encountered blossom end rot, I assumed my tomato was diseased.  Like many gardeners, I...
5 min read
When Should You Harvest Summer Vegetables?
When Should You Harvest Summer Vegetables?
One of the biggest surprises for new gardeners is realizing that growing vegetables is only half the job. Knowing when to harvest them is just as important. Pick a tomato too early, and you'll miss out on its full sweetness....
5 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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