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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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Vegetables to Plant in August for a Big November Harvest
Vegetables to Plant in August for a Big November Harvest
Your garden might look a little tired by August. Tomato vines are sprawling, and the lettuce you planted in spring is long gone. After months of harvesting, it's tempting to think the gardening season is winding down. Then I started...
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How to Protect Tomatoes and Peppers from Sunscald
How to Protect Tomatoes and Peppers from Sunscald
You've watered consistently, tied up the vines, and waited patiently for weeks. Then one afternoon, you notice a leathery patch on the side of the fruit. A few days later, that spot turned brown and sunken. The first time it...
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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...
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How Raised Beds and Greenhouses Help with Drought
How Raised Beds and Greenhouses Help with Drought
For the modern gardener, dealing with drought has shifted from an occasional summertime headache to a perpetual state of emergency. As scorching heat waves besiege much of the US and Europe, particularly the drought-stricken Western United States, water becomes a valuable...
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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...
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Beginner's Guide to Plant Supports
Beginner's Guide to Plant Supports
Plants almost always grow bigger than you expect. Every spring, I tell myself I'll stay ahead of my tomatoes. Install supports early, tie up the vines regularly, and keep everything neat. Every year, I'm reminded that giving vegetables proper support...
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Starting Garlic Bulbs for Harvesting Next Summer
Starting Garlic Bulbs for Harvesting Next Summer
If I can only recommend one crop to grow for fall gardening, it’s garlic. Planting garlic bulbs now means you’ll be rewarded with flavorful heads next summer that are ideal for cooking and gifting. Garlic is surprisingly easy to grow,...
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Extreme Heat Hacks for Urban Gardeners
Extreme Heat Hacks for Urban Gardeners
Summer is often heralded as a relaxing time, until the high temperatures hit. Unpleasant for everyone, heat is a killer, lending an ominous, stifling sense of foreboding as soon as you step out. While gardeners have the luxury of an...
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5 Tips to Prepare Your Plants for Summer Heat
5 Tips to Prepare Your Plants for Summer Heat
Summer is approaching— it’s the season of blazing sun, buzzing bees, and garden glory. As gardeners, we know that summer heat can be both a blessing and a challenge. Beware, these scorching days can turn your green paradise into a...
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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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