Lack of sunny garden spots got you down? We’ve got you covered! Here are 10 vegetables and herbs we’ve personally vetted will thrive – or at least tolerate – a partial or full shade location.
In today’s video, we’ll cover our top 10 choices for what to grow in the shadiest parts of your garden. You’ll get planting ideas for the cooler months, the main Summer growing season, some perennial options, and even an ornamental plant for when all else fails.
Please join us we grow some amazing fruits, vegetables, and herbs in our shade garden!
Resources Mentioned in the Video
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– Tomatillo Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: https://youtu.be/_PWhXaFMghk
– How to Grow Pole Beans in Containers: https://youtu.be/DfAAfb0nWd8
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Please add your growing zone and 1st/last frost dates to your 'about' page. That would be helpful to us in order to adjust our thinking and planning for our own gardens. Thanks!
In USA's "growing zones system" 9 is subtropical bordering tropical?
I live in a northern temperate coastal climate and want to be sure how to relate to your advice.
Does rhubarb grow well in a hot climate? Mine grows in the deepest, darkest, coldest corner of my garden and it is thriving. But I live in temperate climate.
Great vid thanks man!
At my place The cucumbers under 40% shade cloth did much better than the cucumbers that were in full sun.
The type of blueberry you should grow in shade is the Scandinavian Blueberry which is called Billberry in the US. It contains like 10 times more flavinoids than the American Blueberry, is nootropic and a MAOI which you supposedly can get high of if you eat enough of it.
You should try paw paws
Wasabi Japonica grows fine in the shade here, in the Netherlands. Keep it out of the sun, use big pots. Had some frost, didn't mind it at all. Full summer sun kills it.
I have a shady part of my backyard due to a neighbors fence. I planted mint there. I wanted it to spread and provide grown cover to the area. The first year it started spreading nicely but the next year it was nowhere. Gone. Im disappointed.
I planted a number of trees to provide shade to my house. Saves on AC in our sauna like summers. But they must be deciduous so they dont provide shade in the winter. Then the sun is good. Hardly used any heaters this past winter.
Thanks be to God for this video ❤
I would add hostas. They are part of the asparagus family and are similarly edible, and are grown in Asia as an edible instead of a decorative. Hostas can do well in as little as 3 hours of sunlight. They are easier to propagate and transplant than asparagus, and they don't take as long to get established.
Never plant mint outside of a container, unless you want your entire yard to be mint.
Lemon balm will spread like crazy too.
There you go I hit the like button🎉 good video🎉
Can someone explain to me why I see it with Spanish subtitles?
Other videos get German dub for no apparent reason.
Youtube is a huge mess right now!
Why can't I see the videos as is?
I tried to switch off subtitles, but they keep coming back and the settings don't change anything.
I find that I can grow anything in partial sun…or what I call morning till noon and delay some growth that way. I have tomatoes/dill in both full and partial..in full sun I have more growth and fruit, in partial sun my dill has not gone to seed and less tomatoes.
Keep making your professional videos
non edible but flowering, my begonias and hollyhock thrive in shade with irregular watering. Full blooms almost year round in full shade 9b. My hollyhock gave me a 4 foot spike of big pink flowers in January with nothing but dappled light. My begonias bloom in full shade. Smaller butterflies and bigger moths seem to settle in them, especially when the bees take over stuff like the bottlebrush tree.
I did arugula in my half day sun, planter garden alongside spinach. The spinach bolted instantly, probably due to being sprouted in full sun, then thinking the season was ending with only partial sun, but the arugula has done pretty well with sun until only around noon.
Im in zone 7a/b, NWArkansas. We tend to be very hot in summer, i.e. 90-100. Some years worse than others. I see youre in zone 9. Is that Southern California? Florida?
I like the subtle request to like the video. You seem to be a VERY NICE person, and for that you gained a new follower. Greetings from the Philippines! 👋🏻
Well i think i figured out why my lemon blam died. Like you i watered it to much
If you're looking to throw in the towel, plant raspberries, but keep the area cordoned off or they will spread everywhere. I have clay soil and with little amending in the holes the plants were placed, six plants of three different varieties in six year have given me more raspberries than I can harvest! Just remember it's the second year vines that produce the berries.
Thimbleberries yo
I’ve always been warned about mint taking over. I’m old, a widow and have downsized from a small farm with a dairy goat herd and all manner of other farm animals. Now I’m on an acre pretty much in the middle of 40 acres of woods. I am container gardening, and the rest is just a bit wild. My weed trimmer keeps things cut down around the house pretty much. I’m thinking of seeding the place with mint. Keeps down mice and spiders, and I’m hoping scorpions (I’m now in Arkansas, who knew Arkansas had scorpions?🤣). I think it will also smell wonderful when I take the weed eater to it.
i have a blueberry i planted in my garden last year i think and so far it didnt produce much fruits yet, but this year i really tried to give my plants a good environment and hope it manages to give some berries
I have a lot of containers that I grow in along side my raised beds. For the past 2 years I have sown carrot seeds around the edges of these containers and let them establish while I wait for the seedling to be ready to transplant in. Has worked pretty well so far.
Parts of my garden are overrun with lemon balm and I do nothing to help it. It grows in poor soil with no water during our drought summers, it spreads and will take over that garden space and out compete even other mints.
I read it isnt the shine/light….its the UV quality they grow from
My grandma planted blueberries at her house back in the 80s. The house is a hunting cabin now. We do nothing to take care of them. They are amazing. Best blueberries ever. I can't wait to go up there during summer.