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How to Refresh Raised Beds Between Summer and Fall Crops
How to Refresh Raised Beds Between Summer and Fall Crops
There’s a time in late summer when a raised bed can look both productive and exhausted at the same time. The tomatoes are still ripening, and maybe a cucumber vine is producing its last crop. But take a closer look...
6 min read
Tomato Cage Guide: How to Choose the Right Support
Tomato Cage Guide: How to Choose the Right Support
Your tomato plant looked perfectly manageable when you planted it. A few weeks later, it's taller than expected, branches are spreading in all directions. Then comes a storm, and suddenly the tomato cage is leaning, branches have snapped, and ripe...
4 min read
What to Know About Jerusalem Crickets
What to Know About Jerusalem Crickets
If you really want to roast someone properly, liken them to a Jerusalem cricket. Jerusalem crickets, also known as "potato bugs" or "earth children" by the Navajo Indians, are rather funny-looking insects. Unlike gossamer-winged dragonflies, they are flightless, with bald,...
3 min read
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,...
4 min read
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...
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
Best Ways to Use Tomato Cages for Bigger and Healthier Tomatoes
Best Ways to Use Tomato Cages for Bigger and Healthier Tomatoes
The first ripe tomato of summer is supposed to end up in your hand, not split open on the ground because the stem could not hold its weight. That is exactly what happens when tomato plants grow unsupported. Their branches...
5 min read
Summer Vegetable Troubleshooting Guide
Summer Vegetable Troubleshooting Guide
Every summer, there's a point when even experienced gardeners walk into the garden and spot issues right away. Maybe your tomato leaves are curling. Or perhaps your cucumber plant looked healthy a few days ago but suddenly looks wilted. Perhaps...
4 min read
Cemetery Roses – Life After Death
Cemetery Roses – Life After Death
If you’re a fan of SenLinYu's Alchemised, then you’re familiar with the poetic phrase, “You're like a rose in a graveyard.”  Rose enthusiasts will know that real cemetery roses, living on a diet of rainwater and the decomposing nutrients of...
4 min read
Bane or Cure: The World of Poison Gardens
Bane or Cure: The World of Poison Gardens
You’re stumbling through a jungle, dehydrated and bone-weary, when you come across curious white flowers. You wonder whether they might alleviate the slash that you received from a thorny vine or just make it worse. Many poisonous flowers, from black...
3 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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