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How to Design a Backyard That Looks Just as Good After Dark
How to Design a Backyard That Looks Just as Good After Dark
You've spent months building up your outdoor space, selecting materials, arranging beds, nurturing seedlings. Then the sun sets, and it all disappears. Your yard becomes a dark rectangle. Everything you worked on? Invisible. That's a design problem, not a lighting...
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How to Plan and Maintain a Prairie Style Garden
How to Plan and Maintain a Prairie Style Garden
A prairie brings to mind expanses of rolling grassland dotted with wildflowers, harkening back to a time past when much of America was still rural pastureland. Today, much of that bucolic setting is gone – replaced by modern high-rises and...
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Plant Supports Explained: Tomato Cages, Trellises, and Towers for Your Garden
Plant Supports Explained: Tomato Cages, Trellises, and Towers for Your Garden
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt as a gardener, it’s that plants can behave erratically. Like tomatoes that were supposed to grow uniformly suddenly sprawling across the garden bed. Or pea vines wrapping themselves around plants nearby. That’s the moment...
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Romantic Plants for a Cottage Garden
Romantic Plants for a Cottage Garden
English manor gardens were very enviable – they lacked the rigid formations of French formal gardens, yet displayed an exuberance like none other. Roses, hydrangeas, and wisteria spilled over terraces in luxuriant splendor. Some cottage gardens trend toward the frillier...
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What to Do When Your Indoor Plants Get Too Leggy
What to Do When Your Indoor Plants Get Too Leggy
“Leggy” is a funny term to describe underperforming plants, but fortunately, it’s one of those terms that don’t require much difficulty to extrapolate meaning. Unfortunately, leggy plants tend to be sparse, unattractive, and floppy. The stems grow long and weak,...
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Don’t Plant Yet! How to Refresh Your Garden Soil Before Spring
Don’t Plant Yet! How to Refresh Your Garden Soil Before Spring
Before you rush outside and start planting at the first sign of warmer weather, it’s worth slowing down and giving your garden soil a little attention, because healthy soil sets the foundation for the entire growing season. Over winter, soil...
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Best Architectural Winter Plants
Best Architectural Winter Plants
Winter is known as the fallow season, when the field lies barren. At worst, it’s a blight that decimates everything in its path – its cruelty becoming legend during the First World War, when it claimed the lives of both...
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How to Avoid the “False Spring” and Choose Climate-Resilient Varieties
How to Avoid the “False Spring” and Choose Climate-Resilient Varieties
My fellow gardeners, many of you might remember the first time you were fooled by a warm stretch in late winter. The soil was finally workable and signs of the spring season seem obvious, and then a sudden frost wipes...
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Non-Toxic Houseplants That Are Safe for Cats
Non-Toxic Houseplants That Are Safe for Cats
You have a problem: your cat just can’t keep their paws to themselves and keep destroying your houseplants, some of which contain numbing agents or are toxic. Essentially, it boils down to a precarious situation – choose the plant or...
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Humidity-Loving Bathroom Plants
Humidity-Loving Bathroom Plants
A bathroom is not normally considered a suitable place for houseplants – it is rarely a luxurious destination for most people, and in the worst case, breeding grounds for mold spores. However, there are houseplants that avidly seek moisture.  Bathrooms...
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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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