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What Can You Still Plant in August? A Zone-by-Zone Guide
What Can You Still Plant in August? A Zone-by-Zone Guide
August can be a funny month in the garden. The tomatoes and zucchinis are coming in faster than you can eat them, while some of your spring crops are a distant memory. You might look at the empty spaces in...
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Best Place to Buy Raised Garden Beds at the Best Price
Best Place to Buy Raised Garden Beds at the Best Price
You have decided to grow your own food, your own flowers, or simply your own little corner of peace. Raised garden beds are the starting point for all of it. They give you control over soil, lift your garden to...
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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...
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How to Keep Your Garden Alive While You're Away
How to Keep Your Garden Alive While You're Away
Leaving a thriving summer garden behind can mean a lot of stress for gardeners. You can spend months nurturing tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, herbs, and flowers, only to wonder whether they'll still be alive when you get back. August makes the...
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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...
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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...
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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
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
What to Do with Too Many Tomatoes?
What to Do with Too Many Tomatoes?
Every tomato gardener dreams of having "too many tomatoes.” at least once.  One week, you're impatiently waiting for the first ripe tomato to turn red. Next, you're carrying baskets of them into the kitchen, wondering where you're going to put...
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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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