Photo courtesy of LollyKnit at Flickr.com.
Like Ringo Starr’s Octopus’s Garden, some organic home gardens do best in the shade—great news for those of us who don’t want to have to trim those decades-old trees in the backyard too much.
Here are a few vegetables or herbs that you can try in your shady or partially shady spots:
- Beets
- Cabbage
- Chard,
- Garlic (standard and elephant)
- Peas
- Potatoes
- Radishes
- Sorrel
- Spinach
- Turnip
Oddly enough, these plants also tend to do well in cooler weather; this may be why they take to the indirect sunlight and slightly cooler temperatures of the shade garden so well.
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