What Vegetables Grow In Shady Gardens?
Posted by admin on February 8, 2010
My wife and I are hoping to build a little raised garden in the back yard of our new house in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The yard is very shady all summer I gather; we just bought it in late summer. Can you grow many edibles in shady yards?
Thanks for any help!
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lettuce for sure, mint too, I think my cabbages and cauliflower were perfectly happy in a little shade, peas will not do too bad… You need to just try things. Seriously, all the recommendations of what you “must” do are based on, well, I don’t know what. I’m a rebellious gardner, and I’ve grown many many things that I’m not supposed to be able to grow, at times they supposedly arent’ supposed to survive. And then there are always things that should absolutely be happy and vigorous and those don’t seem to do a damn thing. No telling. Your soil, the weather, what is keeping the ground warm or not keeping it warm, numerous factors come into play. Just try and see what happens. At the most you could spend a couple bucks on seeds and have more wisdom to show for it.
You can grow leafy greens with four hours of midday sun, but they will do better with six or twelve hours of sunlight. Leafy greens we like to eat are very tender, and it is better if they grow fast, before insect damage accumulates.
Food energy comes from sunlight, so food plants need lots of sun. The warmth of your blood started as sunlight on a leaf.
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I have been gardening for 60 years from the northern US to the deep south. No veggies do well in shade.