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hey y'all dream from where the yocals grow and we're back finally after a busy two weeks of end of school
and parties and everything else but that's not why we're here and what we're here to
talk about in this video we've had a lot of questions about vegetables that grow
well in the shade for those of you who are in smaller spaces when we have patios and terraces
so in this video we're going to talk about 10 crops for your shady spots if you are new here
welcome and if you are returning i am so glad to see you again let's get growing
so the very first thing we need to talk about is tracking the sun on either your garden your yard
your terrace or your patio you really need to know each area of those locations on each corner
how much sun it gets per day because that will determine and what you can grow in those locations
so let's talk about that first shall we if it's full sun that means it gets 68 hours of direct
sunlight a day partial sun means that it gets four to six hours of direct sunlight per day partial
shade means that it gets three to four hours of direct or indirect sunlight a day and then deep
shade of course is exactly what it says it gets no sunlight a day during the day it does not get
any sunlight during the day so you really want to pay attention because if a place is getting
less than three hours of sun a day you probably want to find a different location for the plants
so as we talk about these plants all of these plants i have currently planted in my gardens
around and you would have seen that at the beginning in the intro of me showing the different
areas where i haven't planted but we're really going to talk about what they are and what type of
sunlight they need in order to grow regardless if they are in a garden or they are growing in a pot
so before we continue on with this video i want to apologize for the background noise i guess one of
my neighbors decided to go grinding on the cement out front so i it's gonna be there guys okay
so with that said let's talk about these 10 crops for your shady spots first thing we're going to
talk about are potatoes if you all have seen my garden tours here recently if you haven't
i will link it at the end of this video so that you can go see it but i have potatoes planted in
various places around my yard and that and i've planted them for years this way but you can grow
potatoes in shade next plant we're going to talk about is celery celery can be grown in partial
shade personally i tried so growing celery this spring and it did just well just fine i grew it
with my squash and my squash leaves get you know gave it this partial sun that it needed
but i would tell you that i if you are in a warmer climate try and grow it in this in the fall you'll
probably have more success with it cherry tomatoes my absolute favorite if you don't believe me
that they can grow in partial shade those are all sweet 100 cherries i also have them growing
in my front gardens if you again if you've seen my garden tour i pointed those out as we were walking
through check it out at the end of the video and you'll get to see the larger cherries which are
the large house cherries of course lettuce lettuce grows well in dappled shade partial shade shade
i've had great success with it and all of those locations roma tomatoes people don't think about
paste tomatoes when they're growing things do you know they think all tomatoes need full shade but
roma tomatoes and cherry tomatoes are shade tolerant and they can grow in partial shade
so if you have a location that just kind of gets a little bit of sun but it gets at least three hours
you can grow a cherry or a roma tomato in that and actually i've grown the big
paste mortgage tomatoes last year they got about nine foot tall and they were grown in full shade
it's just something to think about when you're thinking about growing things cauliflower requires
shade for those of us who are in north texas i get a lot of comments about cauliflower cabbage and
artichoke how it doesn't grow here it doesn't grow because you put it in full sun it requires
shade so if you are in a hotter climate grow it in the shade or wait till fall and grow it in that
that particular climate carrots tolerate light shade that's why you see when i plant my tomatoes
i plant carrots down the sides and i plant them underneath the tomatoes because they can grow with
the tomatoes if you've ever read the book carrots love tomatoes it's either carrots loves tomatoes
or tomatoes love carrots but it's a really good book and it talks about how those two things can
grow well together because the tomatoes take up the sun and the carrots are shaded and they grow
just fine together the other thing is spinach spinach tolerates shade it tolerates partial
shade it tolerates partial sun so if you have one of these towers or you have a dollar tree tower
and you want to put your sunny stuff on the front of it on the back of it you easily can put lettuce
and spinach and beets and carrots and onions will grow just fine in them so and then the final thing
that we're going to talk about is beets i have grown beets in the sun and i've had less success
with growing them in the sun than growing them in partial shade last year i grew them
in partial shade half of it was in partial shade the other half was in shade and it did phenomenal
i it was the best beat crop that i've ever had and then finest find the final one is radishes
radishes here in north texas are best grown in early spring to late fall because only take about
21 days to grow but they can certainly tolerate the shade if you have a shadier spot like you want
to do a garden bag a 20 garden 20 gallon garden bag and you want to make a salad bag out of that
it put your radishes behind the lettuce and let them be shaded and they will do phenomenal for you
so that's my 10 crops for shady spots you know you can grow great many things in shade or i'm sorry
partial shade and partial sun but let me know down in the comments what you're growing in those areas
on your own and how much success have you had with them that's great information we all learn from
each other and that's the way we become better gardeners as we go through this journey together
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