10 Fruits & Vegetables That Grow In Shade – Container Gardening

You want to grow your own fruits and vegetables but don’t have a sunny spot in your garden? I’ve got you covered! Here’s a list of 5 fruits and 5 vegetables you can successfully grow in your shady container garden!

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Hello everyone! Even though it’s still February I’m sure that many of you are already wondering   – what can you plant in your garden this summer. And if your garden happens to be in the shade for   most of the day that doesn’t necessarily mean your options are limited! You can still grow beautiful  

Flowers and tasty fruit and vegetables you just need to pick the right ones! So as someone who has   been gardening in the shade for the past 8 years I want to share with you a list of five fruits   and five vegetables that you can successfully grow even if you don’t have a sunny spot in your  

Garden. But before we jump to that list there  are two informations that I think are crucial   to know when you grow edibles in the shade. So first information is – we talk about shade when   we have between 0 and 3 hours of direct sunlight and then partial shade is between 3 and 6 hours of  

Direct sunlight. But! There is a huge difference between having none direct sunlight, like having   zero hours of direct sunlight and having even 3 hours of direct sunlight! So if you do have a spot   in your garden that receives at least some direct sunlight even if it’s just a couple of hours in  

The morning prioritize that spot and reserve that spot for growing your edibles cause sometimes even   30 minutes more of direct sunlight can make a huge difference. And then the second information   I want to share with you is – be patient! Cause the same vegetable or fruit grown in the shade  

Or in partial shade versus grown in full sun will take more time to grow and will take more time to   ripen in lower light situations. Okay so now I’ll share with you a list of five vegetables and as I  

Speak about each one of them I will try to include some additional information that I think might   be useful to you. Okay number one is radish. Now radish must be the easiest, the quickest and the   most fun vegetable to grow in a shady garden! And you can cultivate radish pretty much year round  

And if you haven’t tried all the colorful radish  varieties – you are missing out! Cuz radish comes   in so many different colors and when I say colors I also mean different flavors and different levels   of spiciness. You can grow radish in the smallest of gardens. I grew five different types of radish  

In one small wicker basket and I had a pretty good harvest out of that basket. The only thing is,   as I mentioned already before it will take more time for that radish to ripen in your shady   garden. Usually we can harvest radish anywhere between 4 to 6 weeks from seed to harvest,  

But for example in my part shade and shade garden it takes usually between 8 to 10 weeks. Number   two is lettuce and leafy greens. All leafy  greens whether that be arugula, spinach,   kale or any type of lettuce it all grows well even with zero hours of direct sunlight. My personal  

Favorite is arugula because of how fast it grows from seed to harvest you can start picking arugula   leaves even within one month. So you can sow it repeatedly and you can have a continuous harvest   all throughout the year. Lettuce is also a great option and there are so many different types of  

Lettuce and they all grow really well there are  some lettuce varieties that grow better in warmer   months but there are also some that are quite cold hardy and you can grow them even in winter with   some little frost protection and you can harvest fresh lettuce even in those colder months. Number  

Three is celery. Now celery will grow excellent in the shade and partial shade! Actually the less   sun it receives the better it tastes. That’s why it’s often recommended to plant celery plants very   close to one another to reduce the amount of light reaching the stems because the more sun the stems  

Receive the bitter they taste. So you can grow celery in the shade and partial shade but there   is one condition that you have to meet you have to provide water-retentive and a rich soil. So pick a   larger container cause the larger the pot the more soil it holds, the smaller the pot the less soil  

It holds and the quicker it will dry out. Also  incorporate a lot of organic matter, so add a   whole bunch of compost or humus or something like that and water your celery regularly. You don’t   want the soil to dry out and you don’t want your celery to wilt. Cause if you allow the soil to  

Dry out and your celery is often wilted you will end up with plants that have only a few stalks and   they will not be juicy and tasty enough. Number four are peas. Now peas can be grown in partial   shade so that means with a few hours of direct sunlight. Like 3-4 hours of direct sunlight that’s  

A minimum they will grow a little bit more leggy and they will produce less as if they were grown   in full sun, but the advantage is that they can actually end up producing over longer periods of   time being grown in a little bit more shady spot. They are obviously climbing plants so you will  

Need to provide them with some sort of tellis or an obelisk or even a tomato cage placed inside the   pot. And the variety that you will pick depends kind of how you want to eat them because there   are three different types of peas there are snap peas, shelling peas and snow peas but all of them  

Prefer cooler temperatures so start them early now in the spring. And number five are beetroots and   other root crops. Generally speaking most root crops do really well in lower light situations   all you need is a container that’s deep enough to accommodate for that root crop to develop  

And you need a really light and really fluffy  potting mix. If you have a potting mix that’s too   heavy or compacts too easily then that root crop will have a hard time to develop properly or it   will develop misshapen. Speaking about beetroots specifically, they are cool weather crops so it’s  

A good idea to sow them early in the spring and then you can sow another batch in Autumn and they   should be ready to harvest anywhere between 40 to 60 days depending on the variety and depending on   how large you want to harvest them but in lower light situation I would expect them to be ready  

More towards the end of that range so more um like 60 days after sowing. Okay so now let’s   talk about five fruits that you can grow in shady gardens. Number one fruit that I always recommend   to anyone who has a shady garden is Alpine or wild strawberry. They require less sunlight than  

A traditional strawberry and uh they’re really  easy to grow from seeds as well. I actually have   a video tutorial on how to grow them and there are traditional red alpine strawberries but I   also encourage you to give a try to yellow alpine strawberries that are a little bit different in  

Flavor. They produce over a long period of time for me they start to produce already at the end   of spring and they continue all the way until  winter. They grow pretty fast so every spring   you can divide them to have more plants and what is great about them, unlike traditional strawberry  

That usually gets exhausted after 3 to 4 years and stops producing or produces significantly less you   won’t experience that with alpine strawberries. Number two are blueberries. Blueberries are also   great options for partial shade but keep in mind that blueberry bushes usually take a couple of  

Years to mature before they actually start to  produce some fruit. They usually produce the   best on their three to four year-old branches.  For containers I would pick small cultivars,   dwarf cultivars that are maximum 1m tall and wide. Also another important thing with blueberries is  

That some cultivars need another cultivar to  cross-pollinate in order to produce fruit. So   if you’re thinking about only growing one or two, take a look at the plant tag it should be written   if the variety is self-pollinating and I would  pick only self-pollinating varieties if I were  

To grow only a couple of them. Another important thing is they need ericaceous poting mix so acidic   potting mix in order to grow healthy and to  produce fruit. You can’t plant them in just   any potting mix it has to be ericaceous potting mix. On my balcony I personally have two different  

Blueberries they are just waking up from their winter dormancy one is called Brigita Blue which   is a blue berry and other one is called Pink  Lemonade which is a pink berry and both of them   are self-pollinating. Number three are red and white currants. Red and white fruits require less  

Sun to mature so that makes them great options for more shady container gardens and with currants   just like with any fruiting trees or bushes it  will take them a couple of years before they   mature and before they actually give you a nice harvest. So for container gardens pick a small  

Cultivar or you can actually buy them as trained as single stem or multi stem cordons and you can   grow them against the wall to save space you can also buy them as standards that not only look more   decorative but also give you the possibility to plant something below. In my container garden I  

Grew white currant that were called Blanca. Number four are gooseberries, pretty much everything that   I said about currants also applies to Gooseberry. There are many varieties to choose from but for   shady container gardens I would pick either a green white or red variety. But some varieties  

Are better for desserts or eat raw others are  better for cooking or for jams and stuff like that   so pick a variety based on how you want to eat it. Here again it will take them about 2 years before  

They start to crop abundantly unless you buy a plant that’s already 2-3 years old that’s nicely   shaped that has several stems. You can buy them as a small bushes but there’s also that option   like with currants you can buy them as partially trained cordons or as standards if you want to  

Save space. Last but not least is Plum ‘Victoria’. That’s something I’m hoping to to add to my   container garden this year as well. Plum Victoria can be planted in partial shade or in dappled   shade that means it will require at least a couple of hours of direct sunlight for those fruits to  

Ripen. Now plum Victoria is a large orchard-sized tree but you can buy them grafted onto smaller   rootstocks so for container gardens make sure that you buy plum Victoria grafted on Pixy rootstock   and with regular pruning you can keep it under 2 m tall. But since it is a tree you will still  

Need pretty decent size of container I would say at least 60 cm tall and wide. Okay so here it is   my list of five fruits and vegetables that you can grow in a shady container garden. I’m curious to  

Know if there are any other fruits and vegetables that you would add to this list or that you grow   in your shady container garden let me know in the comments section! And don’t hesitate to also   check out my video on what herbs you can grow in shady container gardens! hope that you found some  

Good ideas in today’s video thanks so much for watching and we’ll see each other in the next one