Colleen from In the Garden Online has just posted a great article on 10 vegetables you can grow in the shade.
Now we all know that vegetables need sunlight to produce energy via photosynthesis. But as Colleen quite rightly points out, not all vegetables near full-sun for 24 hours (ok, I’m exaggerating!)
The list including radishes, cauliflower, broccoli and beans can all survive on less than 5 hours sun per day. So all you gardeners who have vegie patches that never see the light of day (metaphorically speaking, of course) have no excuses for tossing something in the ground and growing your own produce.
Thanks, Stuart
That was exactly my goal…to remove that “full sun” issue as an excuse not to grow veggies. Most of my yard is shady, so I’ve had to “make do” with growing in shade, and it works very well.