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Shaded Vegetable Garden
Choosing Planting

Shaded Vegetable Garden

What to Grow? Suitable Solutions and Vegetables

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Modified the 5 September 2022  by Ingrid B. 1 min.

How to set up and grow a vegetable garden in the shade?

While deep shade poses a significant challenge for establishing a vegetable garden, it’s often possible to improve the exposure of a plot to grow fruits and vegetables. Moreover, although most vegetable plants require good sunlight, some tolerate shade perfectly well, and may even thrive better in shady conditions.

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Let in the light and speed up soil warming

Before installing your vegetable garden, carefully observe your garden and identify the elements casting shadows. If these are trees or large shrubs, carry out some thinning of the branches to ensure good air circulation and allow light to pass through.

If it’s a hedge, particularly a dense, tall evergreen one, consider pruning it to reduce its obstruction of sunlight.

Next, think about positioning your growing beds correctly so they benefit from maximum sunlight.

Finally, since lack of light often coincides with delayed soil warming (which can set back planting by several weeks), create mounds or slightly raised beds to help the soil warm up more quickly in spring.

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Grow suitable vegetables and herbs

If you can’t harvest tomatoes, courgettes and other sun-loving vegetables, take advantage of the shade to grow vegetables that thrive there, such as:

Additionally, many vegetables like beetroot, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and peas can grow perfectly well in partial shade, though their growth will be slower and their yield slightly reduced.

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Discover other Shade-loving vegetables

Mertensia maritima
Mertensia maritima
Plan. 10/25
€9.50 • 8/9 cm pot
Menthe de Corse - Mentha requienii
Mentha requienii - Mint
Not to be missed!
22
From €3.50 • 8/9 cm pot

Available in 2 sizes

Apple Mint
Apple Mint
Special offer
258
€1.19 • Plug plant 3/4cm

Available in 2 sizes

Salvia officinalis Icterina - Sauge officinale Icterina
Salvia officinalis 'Icterina'
61
From €6.90 • 8/9 cm pot

Available in 2 sizes

Collection of 3 organic cut salads
Collection of 3 organic cut salads
Out of stock
€14.50
Organic Lettuce Lollo Rossa - Lactuca sativa
Organic Lettuce Lollo Rossa - Lactuca sativa
13
From €3.90 • Seeds
Laitue batavia frisée Eazyleaf Skilton
Frilled Iceberg Lettuce Eazyleaf Skilton - B…
1
€4.50 • Seeds
Collection de 10 laitues pour une récolte toute l'année
Collection of 10 lettuces for year-round har…
Out of stock
€20.80
Laitues à couper en mélange
Loose leaf Lettuce Mix
83
From €3.90 • Seeds
Kale Dwarf Green Curled - Brassica oleracea acephala
Kale Dwarf Green Curled - Brassica oleracea …
Value-for-money
5
From €3.90 • Seeds
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