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3 Soil Techniques Beyond Mulching
3 Soil Protection Techniques Beyond Mulching
Protecting your soil from the sun, especially for gardeners in hot and dry zones, is a must. To keep the soil from drying out too quickly, gardeners often turn to mulches made of straw, wood chips or wood shavings. Over...
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Earth Diversity: Mulch Types and Tips
Earthy Diversity: Mulch Types and Tips
Mulch is essentially anything that is used to cover the soil. Woodchips, cardboard, cover crops, plastic, paper, leaves, compost, plant debris and more.
5 min read
Conquering Transplant Shock
Conquering Transplant Shock: A Gardener's Guide to Smooth Plant Transitions
You’ve doted over and nurtured your little plant babies for weeks inside and they’re finally ready to move out.
4 min read
Common Seed Starting Mistakes | Vego Garden
Common Seed Starting Mistakes
Being able to see the whole process from seed to sprout, to seedling to a fully mature plant is one of the most magical things about gardening.
3 min read
Welcome Back and Hello Newbies: Flourishing Friendships in the Garden
Welcome Back and Hello Newbies: Flourishing Friendships in the Garden
In the gardening world, we all have our favorites. I encourage you to try a new plant, perhaps something you have never grown or perhaps even heard of. 
4 min read
Display Your Favorite Small Plant in a "Hand Made" Planter
Display Your Favorite Small Plant in a "Hand Made" Planter
A simple but very fun planter to make is a concrete hand planter. This planter is good for plants like air plants, small house plants, moss, and succulents. 
4 min read
Cultivating Success: How Gardeners Triumph Over Clay Soil Challenges
Cultivating Success: How Gardeners Triumph Over Clay Soil Challenges
Clay soil is distinctive in its goopy, sticky qualities when wet, and its brick-like texture when dry - but there some advantages to it as well.
6 min read
Sculpting Nature's Canvas in Your Garden | Vego Garden
Sculpting Nature's Canvas in Your Garden
The art of espalier is when a tree or shrub is grown in a single plane, flat against some sort of structure.
4 min read
Tips for Growing a Biodiverse Garden | Vego Garden
Tips for Growing a Biodiverse Garden
A garden full of biodiversity is teeming with life – plants, animals, and insects, but planting a garden to be a biodiverse space does not need to be complicated.
5 min read
Understanding the role of nematodes in your garden | Vego Garden
Cultivating Balance: Understanding the Role of Nematodes in Your Garden
Within the context of gardening, nematodes are broken up into two major categories - one type is damaging to plants, the other is here to help.
4 min read

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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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