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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 Keep Your Garden Growing After the First Frost
How to Keep Your Garden Growing After the First Frost
While it may seem like the end of the season for some, for many gardeners, the first frost simply means a change of pace. Warm-season plants like tomatoes and peppers may have finished, but kale, spinach, Brussels sprouts, and other...
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How to Protect Plants From an Unexpected Frost
How to Protect Plants From an Unexpected Frost
An unexpected frost can prove dangerous for the garden. Maybe the temperature suddenly drops to near freezing, or you notice that your first frost is arriving earlier than expected. Either way, you don't necessarily need to give up on your...
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What Vegetables Can Survive Frost? A Guide to Frost-Tolerant Crops
What Vegetables Can Survive Frost? A Guide to Frost-Tolerant Crops
Contrary to popular belief, some vegetables tolerate frost surprisingly well. Cool-season crops such as kale, spinach, and Brussels sprouts can often keep growing when vegetables like tomatoes or peppers have already called it quits. The important distinction is how cold...
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Greenhouse vs. Frost Cover: Which Is Better for Extending Your Growing Season?
Greenhouse vs. Frost Cover: Which Is Better for Extending Your Growing Season?
Winter is often referred to as the fallow season – a time when motivation dwindles to the negatives and fields lay barren. While often peddled as a season of cheery Christmas lights and banal platitudes that celebrate the sanctity of...
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When Should You Cover Your Vegetable Garden for Frost?
When Should You Cover Your Vegetable Garden for Frost?
One day you're picking tomatoes and cucumbers, and the next you're checking the forecast wondering whether you need to cover up your crops. You don't need to panic or shield the entire garden just because frost is approaching. A bit...
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Plant Mutations in the Garden
Plant Mutations in the Garden
In medicine, malformations and maladies are cause for concern – rarely are they as innocuous as double eyelashes or violet eyes. However, what becomes a bane in humans is sought-after in the plant world. Mutations like unexpected coloring or unusual...
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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...
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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...
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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

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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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