Vego Garden Raised Beds: An HONEST Review After 1 Year!

We have officially completed our first season using 16 @vego_garden Raised Beds. We paid for all 16 of these raised beds with our own money and with no discount and this review is an honest one! In this video you'll find out if we regret spending the money we did, or if it was worth our investment!

Finally after almost a full year.. Vego Garden reached out and asked or me to join the affiliate program. We are now a Vego Garden Affiliate and if you are looking to buy one of these, please use the link below, thank you!!

Most important links all in one place!

Some links may be affiliate links, it won't cost you anything extra to purchase through them but it does help us keep making videos. Thank you!
USE CODE: Whitepepper FOR 10% OFF!
Discount Code For 5% Off Chicken Door: Whitepepper Farms
Code for 10% off Gorilla grow tents! - WHITEPEPPER

Camera Gear:

Garden Gear:
Let me know if I am forgetting anything!

If you'd like to support the channel, you can do that here!

Join us on social media!

Contact email

#sustainabilityyourway #Vegogarden

0:00 Intro
0:30 Options
2:08 Good To Know
2:48 What’s In The Box?
5:30 Fill ‘Em
7:03 How Do They Grow?
9:04 Something Not Great
10:33 Do They Bow?
11:36 Who Are They For/Not For?

[Braisin-Raisin]

Maybe in America you don't have this problem: here in Northern Germany we have moles and voles. Moles only burrow but leave the roots hanging in the air, while voles chew the roots. I had built and filled 12 x 45 cm high corrugated metal beds and I love them. However, a season later I find chewed beets. carrots, parsnips, potatoes. So, reluctanty and gritting my teeth, I removed the soil again, put wire especially against voles underneath (they have incredible teeth) and refilled the beds. It was a horrible amount of work (I am 80 and female) but I did it, exceopt for one which I keep for garlic and onions. Voles hate garlic. So, if you have these critters in your area, put down the wire, then the bed making sure it is level, and only then fill it! Make sure you bend the wire upwards a bit around the base of the bed or they find a gap to slip through. Now I see the earth thrown up all around the base of the beds but none come in. Happiness is a vole-free raised garden bed!

[debkincaid]

Re sorting hardware: the first thing we do is get my muffin tins from the kitchen. Perfect for sorting. 🙃

[Junzar]

I love ours! The older you get, the more I like having taller beds. Fewer pest and weed issues. They are wonderful.

[joannc]

I’m a big fan of Vego. I put gravel on the bottom (vole deterrent) and then a bunch of twigs to take up room. I am old and the 17” is easy as could be to work with. I’ve used 3 beds for a year and have 2 new ones to set up. Easy peasy to put together. No mntc is a big selling point for me.

[sashimster]

As a beginner (second season) I can really recommend getting a few growing bags to start out. They require very little work, are fairly cheap and you can move them if you do decide to go bigger and need some open space.

Going into my second season this year, I dug a 12 by 4 foot "semi raised bed". I grabbed some old wood left over from a wooden terrace project my grandpa did 15+ years ago, built a little ~1 foot high frame with coffee grinds and some beer traps to combat an absolute titanic boat load of snails we get here and dug down about 1 foot to lift out our grass because the roots were just insane and I didn't have time to do no dig.

Then I purchased some more grow bags to spread throughout the garden in opportune spots and now I have like 15+ types of vegetables plus some herbs growing with very doable time and money costs. I'm planning on setting up a bigger (about 16 by 12 feet with little paths through the middle) no dig bed in a spot where we cut down a dead apple tree this summer.

[cherylirvin]

Love your enthusiasm! Just slow down a little. I’m from the south - we can’t hear fast.😂

[Gordon_L]

For people who are on a budget or just don't want to spend an arm and a leg on these, one option is to get old roller doors from the recycle yard etc., cut them into 3 or 4 pieces in the vertical plane ( as in when they were in use ) .

The pieces can then be formed into circles with the ridges vertical, join 2 together first for a larger bed, form a shape other than a circle if wanted by using rods or S.S. wire rope with eyes and securing pins on the outside, eye passes through a cut slot . A standard garage roller door unrolls to about 10' so that makes a 3' circle or about a 6'x3' oval if 2 pieces are joined .

Circular or oval raised beds at the height of your choice can be had for very little money and roller doors are made from basically the same steel and coatings as these, just a different profile, i.e. not exactly corrugated but similar .

You also end up with a steel 1" galvanised pipe from the centre of each roller door, that can be utilised in the garden or elsewhere also .
Cheers, from sunny Queensland, Australia 🙂

[Angie-cilp]

YES!! 32 inch! Absolutely!🙋🏽‍♀️ I’m 73 I love Vego and Birdie.

[gracecanon]

Thank you for this informative video. Alot work for all the beds but nothing is better than seeing your plants flourish and eating fresh food.

[michaeld.]

We bought one of the largest Vego beds in 2021. It was a 4x8, and I've had no problems with it at all. No rusting, bowing, , whatever. Ours is white (I figured it would reflect the sunlight a little better than the green). Rather than buy expensive bagged soil, our local landscape-materials yard has a pre-mixed premium garden soil that was 25% of what the bagged stuff would have cost. I also had no trouble when I emailed Vego to ask if they'd sell me some of their black rubber upper trim to use on a the edges of a vintage VW fender. They got back with me immediately, and provided the trim.

[jimbuoy]

The best in price at $49.99 and for sturdiness & durability try the (Galvanized Steel Raised Garden Planter Bed — 6ft. x 3ft x 12") from Northern Tool. Our garden beds are over 5 years old and still going strong with zero issues. Also look for them when there on sale.

[annroberts]

As a proud gardener with home made wood beds, purchased cedar beds and 3 kinds of purchased metal beds, I will no longer buy anything but Vegogarden beds. I love that they are continuing to improve their product line with new colors, new support systems, and other add ons

[bennym]

Vego Garden Raised Beds look great but it's hard to justify the costs for raised beds plus soil costs for the average gardener ! $400-700 for one bed. I can buy a lot of different veggies at grocery store or local fruit stands for that price. then also hope you get a good results in growing your own.

[FFFGardening]

Raised beds are a game changer and the best part is they save your back!!! ✌️😎✌️

[KK-FL]

I have *another* very similar brand of beds. One good use for them is if you want to grow vegetables in your front yard but still have it look pretty.

[littleflockontheprairie]

A couple of years ago, I purchased two similar beds from a different company. I really like them! The 17" depth works fine for me and provides plenty of depth for most plant root systems. This year I used them for cauliflower, broccoli, and beets. The year before: peppers. I would like to put in even more for next year.

[marcosmercado]

Regular paint don't stick too well to galvanized metal, so finding one that does and is also food safe is a win. Maybe they prioritize these 2 features over scratch resistance? Great video and explanations!!!

[elainematiasiewich]

We've been gardening for 50 & years right in the ground. It works. I tried a couple raised beds a few years ago for strawberries. It failed, too dry & or too cold.

[johnmcandrew]

Helpful, thank you. Just ordered one that should arrive on Friday. It will be the home of my kitchen garden. Yes, am planning to fill it with some well-seasoned wood from a tree I had cut down 3 years ago, some yard scraps and fallen branches, and some compost before adding soil.

[dlebreton]

We have 7 round, metal tubs in our small garden. Once filled, they are ready for growing vegetables. At the end of the season, I take about 1/3 of the soil and the finished vegetation and put it in a garbage can for the winter. I have a composter, so I use the used the contents to refill it as needed and I get new compost for my bins. I stir it into the bins in the Spring and am ready to plant new vegetables. It is the best way I found for gardening. You do not have to buy compost or new soil, no need to kneel over a planting bed, metal racks can be inserted to hold the plants from dragging on the ground and we spread straw around in the garden and love the brightness. Make sure if you use tubs that you drill holes in their bottoms! 😊