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Old 07-02-2006, 09:12 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default Vegetables suited to part shade?

In article .com,
La Puce wrote:

What about vegetables suitable for intercroping, which don't require
much sun like raddishes, spinash and chicory. There's also the woodland
bushes, like blackberries which do well in the shade. ...


Blackberries are wood EDGE plants, actually, and don't crop in deep
shade.

The problem is that there is a reaonable amount of light only from
early April to mid-September, and it is typically warm enough for
much growth in dark conditions only from June onwards. So essentially
nothing that needs to ripen fruit or establish foodstores (e.g. roots)
will grow well. Some foliage and similar plants will do OK in the
summer, and herbs don't need to make much growth.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.