27 Vegetables You Can Grow in the Shade Thinking of adding some vegetables to a shady area in your garden? Check out this complete list of veggies that grow in the shade! 2.58M 1.1M 2.8M 902K 85.1K Categories Posts Shop Edible Gardening Companion Planting Fruits Grains Harvesting Microgreens Nut Trees Vegetables Ornamental Gardening Bulbs Although fruiting vegetables such as tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, and squash need at least 6 hours of full sun daily to give you a good harvest, most crops can "get by" with part sun or part shade (3 to 6 hours of direct sunlight). Assessing Your Garden's Light Levels
19 Vegetables for Growing in Shade
Use Good Quality Soil If you are going to challenge your shade-tolerant crops to grow in partial shade, provide them with good-quality soil with plenty of nutritious compost. Here are 7 Tips to Build Healthy Soil. Beets (Image credit: Becky Searle) Beets are a tasty, easy to grow and easy to store vegetable. Like most vegetables, they prefer partial shade, so if you can, allow them to have a few hours of sunlight a day. The more sunlight they get, the faster they will grow, so if you are growing beets in shade, you might just need to be a bit more patient. 01 of 24 Hetz's Japanese Holly undefined undefined / Getty Images It's easy to overlook shrubs when planning a shade garden but they provide structure and background for planting beds with showier plants. Grow evergreen shrubs, like Hetz's Japanese holly ( Ilex crenata 'Hetzii' ), for its small oval leaves that resemble boxwood foliage. tomatoes cucumbers eggplant peppers corn squash beans peas melons okra When you see a plant label requiring " full sun ", it means that the plant will benefit from a minimum of 6 hours of sunlight each day, though they will thrive with 8-10 hours of direct sunlight. Keep in mind that too much sun, can be too much of a good thing!
31 Vegetables That Grow in Shade For Gardens Without Full Sun
Lettuce Kindra Clineff Like most leafy greens, lettuce grows well with just three to four hours of direct sun. Loose-leaf types are the best choice for part shade. Thin out young plants to use as baby greens and to give more space to the remaining plants. Harvest full-size plants whole or leaf by leaf. Hostas make great understorey plants and have delicate purple flowers spikes in summer. In case this wasn't enough, their young leaves are also edible and a great alternative to asparagus. 'Hostas are greedy, thirsty plants,' says Monty Don of Gardeners World. They like moist, rich soils. Savoy cabbage All brassicas are tolerant of shade, so as well as as cabbages try growing broccoli, spring greens or Brussels sprouts. Sow seeds in spring for late-season cropping. Net the plants to protect them from cabbage white butterflies - buy netting from Crocus. Buy brassica seeds from: Dobies, Suttons and Thompson & Morgan Beetroot Beetroot Here are some of the vegetable crops that do well in partial shade: Root vegetables. Potatoes, beets, and carrots will bloom in partially shaded areas. Vegetables from the bean and squash family. Bush beans and summer squash are in season during the summer but will thrive in areas with less sun.
19 Vegetables for Growing in Shade
01 of 05 Salad Greens The Spruce / K. Dave Leafy salad greens are staples in the spring garden. They like the cool, dewy days early in the season and you can succession plant most of them for a long harvest period. It gets a little tricky to keep them growing in the hottest part of the summer. Best Vegetables to Grow in Partial Shade 01 of 32 Artichoke (Cynara scolymus) Getty Images/ bigeyedboy / 500px Artichokes are herbaceous perennials that will tolerate partial shade, as long as they receive 6 hours of sunlight per day.
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Most vegetable plants WILL NOT do well growing in full shade areas. Full sun is defined as an area with at least 6 to 8 hours of sunlight per day. And for a really productive vegetable garden, I really like to see 8 hours of direct sunlight per day. All vegetable and fruit plants will do their best growing in 6-8 hours of sun (or even more). Some annual vegetables can be grown in shade, mostly things like lettuce and cabbage can tolerate shade because they don't set fruit. They're particularly tasty to deer and vulnerable to weeds, so they're not the best choice for planting in shady spots on the front lawn. More importantly, they must be tended and replanted every single year.
