What vegetables grow in shadow

What vegetables grow in shadow

Seasonal and garden dachas allow citizens to join grateful business of cultivation of plants, working physically, but having a rest soul. And, though almost all fruit, greens and vegetables it is possible to buy in shop all the year round, many prefer to grow up them on own sites. The harvest which is grown up by own hands more usefully and more tasty.

How to place plants on the site

More often seasonal dachas are used not only under plantations of vegetables, but also as the full-fledged vacation spot with comfortable country house. On the same 6-8 hundred parts it is required to place not only the building, but also subsidiary constructions – bath, garage and also ornamental shrubs, flowers, fruit trees and several beds with greens and vegetables. There is question how to make it it is correct that also those sites which mostly are in shadow or on which light is scattered have been involved.

As a rule, fruit trees are planted on perimeter along protection, and by fruit and ornamental shrubs ranks on the center of the site, differentiating it, thereby, on functional zones. And here flowers and vegetables can be planted on the "patches" which have remained free taking into account that part of them prefers sunshine, and part of plants is shade-loving and shade-enduring.

It is necessary to consider that the lowered requirements to quantity of sunbeams, as a rule, assume increased requirements to soil moisture and its structure. Therefore, choosing vegetables for landing in shadow, surely provide them necessary structure of the soil and regular fertilizing with compost in process of maturing of harvest.

What vegetables to plant in the shaded places

Of course, sunlight all the same is required to any vegetable, but even if it will get on the site only any time or to get through foliage, for some types of vegetables and it will be quite enough.

Perfectly almost all greens grow in shadow: sheet salads, spinach, sorrel, horse-radish, rhubarb, parsley, fennel, cilantro, celery and mint. Onions including leek, garlic well grow in shadow. To these plants of rather regular watering and sunlight within 4-5 hours a day. Beans, upright haricot and peas love shadow. Perfectly root crops – radish, garden radish, beet and carrot and also all family of cruciferae family feel in the shaded places under fruit trees: white, Chinese, cauliflower and broccoli. Provide to these vegetables regular weeding and land them ranks in the direction the East-West that they have received the maximum quantity of scattered sunlight even in shadow. In the southern regions some grades, usually heliophilous perfectly grow in half-shade: squash, cucumbers and tomatoes. The lack of the sun can postpone only a few the maturing time, but will not affect their taste and the sizes in any way.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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