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What to Plant in Raised Garden Beds for a Beautiful, Productive Season

#Better Gardening #Fall Garden #Garden Beds #gardening tips #gardening tools #harvest #organic gardening #Plant Cultivation #plant health #Plant Selection and Care #Seasonal Gardening

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

#Better Gardening #food #fruit #Garden Beds #garden design #Garden Prep #garden to table #harvest #Plant Cultivation #summer gardening #watermelon

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

#Cultivation #DIY #Garden Beds #Garden Prep #garden to table #harvest #organic gardening #Outdoors #Plant Cultivation #Seed Saving #Seeds

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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Vegetables to Plant in August for a Big November Harvest

#climate change #Garden Bed Design and Preparation #garden planning #Garden Prep #garden to table #harvest #Plant Selection and Care #summer #summer gardening

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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3 Best Lemon Tree Varieties to Grow in Rolling Planters

#Cultivation #edible plants #fruit #fruit trees #garden to table #gardening tools #Green Thumb Knowledge #trees #trees and shrubs

There are many different types of lemon trees you can grow, but most gardeners tend to gravitate toward the ones they already recognize, those commonly found in grocery stores or widely sold at nurseries. In this blog, the focus is...

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Hori Hori Knife: A Gardening Must-Have for the Toughest Weeds

#beginner tips #Cultivation #easy gardening #gardening tips #gardening tools #Hori Hori Knife #Plant Selection and Care #pruning #weeds

Some weeds, like the insidious bindweed, are pretty. Thistles do not have such a luxury – they are prickly all over, from their scraggly, overly aggressive foliage to their spiky flowerheads, which sprout like strange eruptions from the roadside....

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How to Protect Tomatoes and Peppers from Sunscald

#Better Gardening #climate change #Garden Prep #garden protection #gardening tips #plant health #Plant Selection and Care #Seasonal Gardening #summer

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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What Soil to Put in a Raised Garden Bed for Better Harvests

#beginner-friendly #Cultivation #edible plants #Garden Beds #garden planning #garden to table #harvest #Plant Cultivation #Plant Selection and Care #Raised Beds

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...

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What to Know About Jerusalem Crickets

#Cultivation #gardening tips #gardens #insects #pest control #pests #plant care #Plant Cultivation

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,...

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Why Your Olive Tree Is Dying: 19 Problems Most Gardeners Miss

#fruit trees #garden #garden protection #gardening tips #health #plant health #Plant Selection and Care #Problems and Solutions #trees

Olive trees are real statement pieces, they bring Mediterranean character to a home and soften a facade, but when one starts to decline, it quickly becomes a source of stress, especially since they aren’t exactly cheap to replace. The truth...

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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.