Best partial shade veggie plants? less than 5 hours.

[ABHanna4d]

What are the best vegetables to plant in partial shade. They would get morning sun from about 7:30-noon...but its mostly shade after that.
Any suggsetions would be greatly appreciated. I dont want to waste that part of my garden!

 

[boggybranch]

(1) Salad Greens
(2) Brocolli
(3) Cauliflower
(4) Peas
(5) Beets
(6) Brussells Sprouts
(7) Radishes
(8) Swiss Chard
(9) Collards
(10) Mustard Greens
(11) Spinach
(12) Kale
(13) Beans

 

[ABHanna4d]

(1) Salad Greens
(2) Brocolli
(3) Cauliflower
(4) Peas
(5) Beets
(6) Brussells Sprouts
(7) Radishes
(8) Swiss Chard
(9) Collards
(10) Mustard Greens
(11) Spinach
(12) Kale
(13) Beans

Wow seriously? I thought most of these needed 8 hours minimum...that Is excitting!
What is "full sun" anyway...8 hours?

 

[boggybranch]

The link that I had read, suggested those for spots that get 3-6 hours of direct sun. I had researched it cause I, too, have a spot that I wanted to plant, but only got morning sun.

 

[boggybranch]

"Full sun" is at LEAST 6 hrs of direct sunlight.

 

[ABHanna4d]

wonderful! Im very excitted because we have parts of our garden that barely get 8 hours and I thought that they were on the borderline for full sun...but i guess they have plenty
We have a couple trees in our back yard that are shading part of the garden and we were afraid we would have to spend alot of money to get them cut down! My husband could easily cut them down, but these trees are tall and could easily fall on the house, garage or fence...SO probably shouldnt do it ourselves...but now I guess we will just leave them and enjoy the shade under the trees. Those trees are also where we have our chicken coop so I didnt want to get rid of their shade!!! They are going to need it this summer!
Ok off to do some planting!!

 

[digitS']

I will do some planting in my shady corner garden this morning. The first of the bok choy will go out there. We've got lettuce starts hardening off for the next go-around.

Your garden's location is certainly better than a shade-in-morning/ sun-in-afternoon site. Fortunately, the same is true from my corner garden . Fairly heavy shade falls across most of the site from about 10:30am, on. It is entirely in shade by noon.

The trees to the south & west (and there are 5 of them, within 50 feet) are pines and tamaracks. Some sunlight filters thru but they are large trees.

I grow a good deal of those 2 crops of greens and also have later sowings of spinach there. In this arid climate, it is nice to have a place where greens can run a little later in the season without burning up in the summer sun. I've also had a lot of onions planted there - green onions and leeks in the sunniest part. They tend to grow tall and tender.

Last winter, Walla Walla Sweet seedlings toughed it out in 1 bed. It was a mild winter so not a very fair test. Often, overwintered onions here bolt quickly to seed without really forming bulbs.

You may have more options if you have another 90 minutes of sun each day. If nothing else -- think leaves. If a plant doesn't have sufficient solar energy to prompt fruiting -- think leaves. MMmmmmooooo' leaves!

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