Showing posts with label crop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crop. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 May 2010

Shade tolerant food crops

I'm hoping to start growing some veg in my shady yard. It's common sense really... leafy vegetables are the most shade-tolerant, as they're most effective at harvesting sunlight I suppose. Those that fruit from a flower (tomatoes, peppers, squash, eggplants) are the least. In between are the root vegetables requiring at least a half day of full sun: potatoes, beets, carrots and turnips. Shade tolerant leafy 
vegetables include lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, arugula, endive and radiccio. Broccoli (and its relatives) kale, kohlrabi, turnips, mustard and cabbage -- also grow in partial shade.