desertgirl
Garden Ornament
Thiking of putting up another SFG, but the only place I have to erect one is an area that only gets a few hours of sunlight per day. Any advice on fruits/veggies that would enjoy this limited light?
Partial Shade Crops?
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Texan
Garden Ornament
Que, SFG?
blue skys
Attractive To Bees
Square foot garden? I don't have any suggestions, but will be watching... 
Well, we put our raised bed up in March - before the trees leafed out. At the last second, DH moved it about 3-4 feet closer to the edge of the yard. Now I have a shady garden box 
Cool weather crops very do well in it (lettuce, spinach, peas, radishes) and for longer into the summer. Hot weather plants still grow, I just don't have the same kind of harvest as everyone else. I still get tomatoes, peppers, and squash, just not as many as you would expect. So I plant twice the number of plants I would normally use to get the same harvest. Green beans grow well. They seem to grow anywhere.
Inchworm
Cool weather crops very do well in it (lettuce, spinach, peas, radishes) and for longer into the summer. Hot weather plants still grow, I just don't have the same kind of harvest as everyone else. I still get tomatoes, peppers, and squash, just not as many as you would expect. So I plant twice the number of plants I would normally use to get the same harvest. Green beans grow well. They seem to grow anywhere.
Inchworm
Catalina
Garden Ornament
I agree with the cool weather crops. Peas, lettuce, ect.
patandchickens
Deeply Rooted
Greens. So, lettuces (especially), spinach, chard, I think bok choy but ahve never grown it myself, etc. Also parsley. Peas and beans will grow with some shade, too, but you will not get such good yeilds.
Have fun,
Pat
Have fun,
Pat
Texan
Garden Ornament
I have almost all of my tomatoes in the shaded area and they are doing greeaaaaat.
digitS'
Garden Master
DesertGirl, it probably makes an important difference that my shady corner gets morning sun. With about 5 hours each day, it does a good job in growing all the salad veggies.
Right now there are spinach, lettuce, mizuna and bok choy in that corner. Also, my parsnips are planted in the sunnier part but that's just an experiment.
Onions of all sorts and leeks (is that a sort, too?
) do very well there. But, they sometimes grow a little too tall and kind of, floppy .
This was last year with a ton of onions, some bok choy, and a few lettuce plants in that location. The time was about 10 AM and I'm facing southwest. There is a steep hillside beyond the evergreens - it gets dark in there in the afternoon:
Fruit? I once had a bed of strawberries off my deck. In that location, the plants only had a few hours of sun at mid-day. They did okay.
Steve
Right now there are spinach, lettuce, mizuna and bok choy in that corner. Also, my parsnips are planted in the sunnier part but that's just an experiment.
Onions of all sorts and leeks (is that a sort, too?
) do very well there. But, they sometimes grow a little too tall and kind of, floppy .This was last year with a ton of onions, some bok choy, and a few lettuce plants in that location. The time was about 10 AM and I'm facing southwest. There is a steep hillside beyond the evergreens - it gets dark in there in the afternoon:
Fruit? I once had a bed of strawberries off my deck. In that location, the plants only had a few hours of sun at mid-day. They did okay.
Steve
digitS'
Garden Master
This is facing in the opposite direction and shows the remainder of my little veggie garden right now. (Most of it is in full sun. )
The closest bed only has direct sunlight during the early morning and late afternoon. Through the better part of the day, the shadows of 2 spruce sweep across it. You can see that the baby bok choy is happy enuf there:
)The closest bed only has direct sunlight during the early morning and late afternoon. Through the better part of the day, the shadows of 2 spruce sweep across it. You can see that the baby bok choy is happy enuf there:
Rio_Lindo_AZ
Deeply Rooted
I have a bunch of Full-sun plants that only get little sun each day. They always do fine. My squash gets only about 4-6 hours of direct sun each day, and it's looking like a champ!
