Please add your growing zone and 1st/last frost dates to your 'about' page. That would be helpful to us in order to adjust our thinking and planning for our own gardens. Thanks!

Fall/Spring shade 0:38 arugula 1:29 frisée endive 2:36 carrot 3:28 macha greens Summer shade 5:16 black cherry tomatoes 6:09 tomatillos 6:58 pole beams Perennial shade 7:47 peppermint 8:23 blueberries 9:59 lemon balm Bonus 11:36 Japanese forest grass

Awww, you have a Rhodesian Ridgeback! I've had several over the years. Best dogs ever ❤

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The type of blueberry you should grow in shade is the Scandinavian Blueberry which is called Billberry in the US. It contains like 10 times more flavinoids than the American Blueberry, is nootropic and a MAOI which you supposedly can get high of if you eat enough of it.

I just subscribed!!! I have a thing for gardeners that smile in their thumbnails in such a way that lets me know that they love gardening as much as I do :) That’s how Jess from Roots and refuge got me. Her thumbnails are so joyful and jolly!

An FYI for anyone interested in em. Peppermint (and mint of course) are both incredibly aggressive growers. I would suggest planting them in their own separate pots and or in a corner of your yard that you don't intend on growing anything else. They WILL out compete and actually kill other plants and are INCREDIBLY tough to remove once they've set roots. On the plus side of that they're incredibly resilient and continuously grow throughout all seasons (from my experience).

In Michigan I have great success with parsley, strawberries, and rhubarb in shade. Kale and Collards do very well all winter as well.

Hostas do well in the shade and the new spring buds taste delicious roasted like asparagus!

I've been planting my tomatoes in the shade every year. They seem to like it especially the cherry and grape tomatoes. I even tried planting some big tomatoes and I was surprised to have a harvest last year also. The yard long beans, basil, water spinach, kale, sorrel and even peppers grow in my shady spot with only 2 1/2 hours sun.

Hello! I just find your channel and I love it! Gardening was such an important part of my recovery from depression and anxiety ♥️ Now it's lovely to watch content creators like you talk about plants, nature and gardening with so much love and passion. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I don't know a lot about plants that thrive on shade so this is perfect! I would absolutely love to do Spanish subtitles for this video for free, so I can share it with friends and family! If that's something you'd be interested in, please let me know 🌿

Best shade plant I've found is Garlic Chives - They're almost impossible to kill and require no care plus pollinators like the flowers.

Thanks for the video. I will have to give carrots and Tomatillos a chance in my more shaded area. I have at least 20 oaks plus numerous other tress so I have very little sunny areas in my yard,

Nasturtium really needs to be added to this list. Grows in full shade, through mild winters. Is both food and medicine. Grow extremely easy even in depleted soil. And It’s so pretty

So glad to know of your videos! Carry on!!

I'm in the PNW and I always leave a couple of lettuce plants to bolt because the flowers come out very early in spring and the bees are ravenous for them.

I've also found thyme to be a great shade tolerant herb doesn't grow AS big, but it hangs in and provides some nice additional food/spice in the life

Awesome info! We live in the woods and don’t like to mass clear so we hand clear anywhere we need to create a garden bed, pop up a high tunnel or greenhouse and all of our paths are hand cleared. I’ve studied forest farming and wildcrafting because I naturally have ALOT of shade and dapple sun areas. So any food or medicine I can grow in low light areas is a bonus to us!

This is really interesting as I'm trying to grow in a north facing back garden plot. Thanks for putting this together.

I love your enthusiasm! Gardening makes me excited too :)

Sending gratitude from a Daoist monastery near Seattle (USA)!

I have good deal of shade in my Northern Michigan garden. I found that Swiss Chard Bright Lights did incredibly well in medium shade, and was a gorgeous addition of color lining my paths. Can't wait to try some of your tips!

This video is a life saver, my apartment balcony is big but in full shade. I've been heartbroken about it since I moved in, but I feel a lot better knowing I can still grow my own edible plants. Amazing video!

Very neat indeed, thanks for the list and ideas on this!

I so am enjoying your thoughtful and encouraging videos!! I grew spinach plants this winter(Georgia) on a south wall in big pots. Had a good continuous crop. My arugula did not do well….except for one plant. I forgot to mulch or didn’t have mulch back then. We had a 9 degree night back in December which was so brrrr cold…..for Atlanta, Georgia!! Please continue to send your videos out…..to us. I am subscribed! Because I have a north front…..my south side is a little….unpredictable….in summer. Tree canopy overgrowth is an issue also in the south side back yard. So I am listening closely to your….advice. So grateful for your videos!! Ahna

Wow, you are such a great presenter. Fabulous video. Thank you so much. Great information.

I'm excited! My growing areas are partial sun thanks to mature trees throwing shade. Also a plus, I'm in Zone 9! Very cool! Looking forward to more videos 🌻

Great video!! ❤

Edible shade flowers & "weeds". Eg: Nasturtium. Violets. Dandelions. Nettles. Paint reflective walls matte white, it'll improve reflective sunlight. KiaOra from New Zealand.

Just discovered and subscribed to your channel. Great infos, can't wait to see more!

I predict you’ll be at 1 million subscribers by next spring. And I love how you snuck in the “y’all “!!

Agree on the blueberries….we have a much cooler, mostly shade spot of the yard, and potted blueberries have grown fine there, even with imperfectly acidified soil.

Thank you! Great to finally find a cold region/shade gardening channel. While my garden isn't strictly all shade, it is a north facing garden in Scotland, and few are the days when it isn't overcast. I am delighted to see a tomato growing in such conditions - when, for the past 20 years, I have been unable to get more than 3-4 tomatoes total, regardless of all the tips and tricks I've ferreted out of the internet. Nothing's worked and this is the first year I've finally given up. So I am definitely going to try and track down some black tomato seed! Might I suggest - I have blackcurrants and redcurrants fruiting reasonably well under the dense shade of an ancient hazelnut tree, gooseberries fruiting sufficiently under the denser shade of a large goat willow, and many raspberries will tolerate a bit of shade too. Also, in the perennial vegetable bracket - Red-Veined Sorrel works for me (in leaf right now. In fact, there have been a few leaves throughout the winter). Alchemilla mollis will happily produce mountains of edible leaves wherever you plant it. It does best in sun, but a bit of shade will keep it that little bit more manageable. An acquired taste, some people don't like the very slight fur on the leaf surface in a salad, but if you chop it up well with other leaves or use them like spinach to pad out a stew, they're fine. Last year, I planted an Ostrich Fern in a mostly shady place. It's quite small at the moment, but I hear these 'Fiddleheads' are very popular in California at least. My Marjoram plants have had a crown of tiny leaves in the centre all winter just like the mint, so that's another one to try. I'm currently dividing mine up to try in the wilder permaculture garden, see how they fare among other, larger plants. Some Hostas are edible. I'm unsure exactly which ones, but I have 'Bressingham Blue' in my garden. It's more green than blue, but I'm limited to what I can grow because I have a ton of slugs and snails, this is a slug-proof variety and slug-proof Hostas are as rare as hen's teeth. I'll have to give carrots another go. I think that my habit of a Spring sowing is what's producing poor results. Evidently, they need that extra few months. Good luck with the channel.

Thank you. Especially about the blueberries.👍

Thanks for the suggestions! Looking forward to getting some of these plants into my garden this year. I’ve been trying to figure out my shady areas for two years now! Hoping I can fill my beds this year🙂.

Zone 9 yay. Me too. This video is priceless for me. 😊😊

Excellent information 👌 thanks buddy😊

Thanks for mentioning about overwatering with lemon balm. I just got my first one!

Nice tips. I also have a lot of shade in my garden. I have a few strips of full sun though. My full sun is mostly a thin strip against the fence line and a couple other areas.

In defense of the ornamental grass, bunching grasses are good nesting locations for ground beetles, which eat garden pests. So if you can't grow food there, you can use the area to grow support plants for your garden.

Great info! Thank you!

Thanks for the helpful video

My grandma planted blueberries at her house back in the 80s. The house is a hunting cabin now. We do nothing to take care of them. They are amazing. Best blueberries ever. I can't wait to go up there during summer.

Very helpful. Thank you!

Great video, and I’m glad you have the information about overwatering lemon balm. I think I was doing that. I’d add Greek oregano which is an amazing ground cover/living mulch.

Thanks, this was good to know.

Thanks for this 🤗

This a good video :) the people complaining want all the information in one place and obviously don’t want to do their own research. Your doing great. Thanks for the tips.

Thanks be to God for this video ❤

Good to know about the carrots. That was a surprise, but I'm going to give it a try. Thanks.

Great vid thanks man!

thank you!

Thank you!

I have a lot of shade, and the single most consistently productive food plant I grow are peppers with small to medium sized pods (i.e. not bell peppers -- they take forever to reach full size and another eternity to ripen -- one bird peck and you've lost all that). Pepper plants can survive dry conditions, they survived our rainiest year on record in 2018, they can tolerate a pretty wide temperature range; most heirloom peppers are far more disease-resistant than any F1 hybrid tomato. I've done well with pole beans and tomatoes too (except 2018). For tomatoes I prefer cold-weather / arctic varieties, as I can start them eariler and being in shade is a lot like being in a much cooler microclimate.

Solid video! Can I throw out the suggestion to add timestamps per plant? Makes it so much easier to come back and find info

Thanks!

I've heard that about carrots. If there grown in the colder environment they tend to be sweeter Thanks for the video. Learn something new every day

This is great! Maybe I can grow something in my yard.

I'm already planning to try planting carrots and blueberries this year but I hadn't thought of mint. I think I'll have to try that too

I attended a seed exchange event in my community the other day (it was so much fun and an amazing way to make sure extra seeds don't go to waste and try new varieties!) Anyway, they had a short presentation on seed saving and talked about how if you save from plants that do particularly well in the conditions you're looking for, within a couple generations you'll have plants that are more suited to those conditions. Have you experienced anything like this? I'm thinking of trying to do that for plants I'm trying to grow in my shady back yard.

Needed this...

Black cherry is one of my struggling garden's clear winners, is successful on spite of all the challenges and taste amazing, thanks i will try one in the shady planter this year.

Thks. My arugula and spinach produced beautifully throughout the winter and the sunny cold weather. I covered them when temps went below 30. That was a southern face wall at my house. North face…..would have been too….too cold. Last year I grew collards/kale in big containers at another south wall here. Did great. Not giant leaves…..but produced tasty leaves terrifically!!! Carry on over there. Ahna. Georgia/USA

Great advice 👍

Useful!

Commenting as I watch. Arugula is Rocket here, and yes, ours prefer shade due to how harsh our sun can be here. We get better yield and softer flavour through autumn/winter. in spring it gets very bitter, and bolts towards the end. Endive: I don't even know what this is, but sounds like it would suit our half and half spots. Carrot: yeah, we grew our last lot in mostly shade. It was fine we just had to be careful with water retention. Corn salad: never heard of it, but cool. Our lettuce does good in pretty much full shade. Tomatos: All year crop for us. Our cherries all do well in shade. Tomatillos: haven't tried yet. Pole bean: have only done snow peas. So a bit different, but they do so good in mostly shade and ours got over 6ft lol. Mint: Only mint that we've managed to grow is cat mint, but it is thriving and in the shade. Blueberries: have just died. Everytime. Lemonbalm: something in my garden adore lemon balm so it gets eaten before I ever get usable lol. But yes, we get good sprouting with shade. Japanese grass: cool. Some additions we've had luck with in shade: Lemongrass Monsteria deliciousa Dragonfruit Corn & sorghum & wheat surprisingly Amaranth is fantastic in shade. Maybe not full shade, but majority of the day is fine. Malabar spinach. It grows well in sun or shade. Depending on your climate. Anyway, you're an awesome creator. Glad you came up in my rec!

I have a lot of containers that I grow in along side my raised beds. For the past 2 years I have sown carrot seeds around the edges of these containers and let them establish while I wait for the seedling to be ready to transplant in. Has worked pretty well so far.

Enjoyed your video. I also have grown black cherry tomatoes and many family members Enjoyed them...myself included. I have seedlings going at the moment..along with some other varieties. Will check out your tomatillo video as I did not have success last year. Thank you for sharing the information. Greetings from Zone 10...South Florida.

Good stuff...thumbs up and subbed

Interested about the lemon balm! I just repotted mine yesterday; it had quickly become pot bound, and was struggling adjusting to the bright sunshine once I moved the pot outdoors for the season. Glad to know the solution may be as simple as to move them to a shadier location-and root prune them when they outgrow their pot. Like spearmint, they don’t share their space well with others, so I prefer to keep them in their own pot. I grow them just because I love their smell!

Wasabi Japonica grows fine in the shade here, in the Netherlands. Keep it out of the sun, use big pots. Had some frost, didn't mind it at all. Full summer sun kills it.

Thank You so much, You are the best! Really enjoy Your channel and You make my garden better too:)

I'm in 6b and cucumbers do alright in partial shade. They thrive on neglect once established.

I’m in Zone 10-11 or so. It’s a no frost place S FL. Everglades Tomatoes are amazing if you can grow them. They reestablish themselves wherever they were last year, spontaneous, season depends on shade to a degree but generally Dec through May. Tiny tasty fruits. My dog grazes on them. Me too of course.

I bought a townhouse that gets no direct sun... This is perfect for my homestead!

… don’t forget that the carrot tops are very edible … as are the leaves from many vegetables you wouldn’t think of !

I like the subtle request to like the video. You seem to be a VERY NICE person, and for that you gained a new follower. Greetings from the Philippines! 👋🏻

Thank you for this video, i live in the north east of the UK and we rarely get sun... maybe one or two really hot weeks throughout the year, but other than that, we're just mild all the time. I successfully grew three types of tomatos last year - Roma, Golden Sunrise and Black Beauty tomatoes. Just to weigh in. I grow Rhubarb in my garden, it starts sprouting up in very cold weather, even when there's still a bit of frost. Today is 02/04/2023 and i've just harvested my rhubarb for the first time, it goes absolutely insane. Other things that work well in my garden year in, year out are - Gooseberries, Blackcurrants, Chives, Baby Sweetcorn, Peas and Courgettes (Zucchini) - i never have a problem with any of them :)

Love this video!! Watched it while transplanting my indigo cherry tomato seedlings into larger pots from seed trays. Can’t wait for what this spring brings us in Zone 9

There you go I hit the like button🎉 good video🎉

Enjoyed

My first video of yours. It's like trying to find a . specific star in the night sky to find people like you. So I had to subscribe because you are so interesting, and of course a thumbs up. I have huge pots that are so big they are not moveable. So I am going to get a blueberry bush or two to put in the pot behind my elderberry bushes. I wrote all the info down because I want it when the next Carrington event happens...😎

Lemon balm is a great deer deterrent!

First time viewer to you channel, you have wonderful energy amd good knowledge. Thank you for you efforts, I look forward to seeing more when I have time. I wanted to just mention a shade crop that has worked miracles for my land, Tropaeolum majus. Too many benefits to list here, for the land, plants and animals.

Maybe it's a Dutch thing, but we love our Frisee Andive, raw and cooked. great video, I've moved and have more shade now so I was looking for inspiration

Black Cherry Tomatoes were a big winner in my garden too. We felt they had an okay flavor fresh but really got a chance to shine when halved and dried in the oven. Perfect pizza topping.

great.

As someone who lives in an apartment and my only planting area outside is a covered 16 sq. ft. patio, these kinds of videos are so good for me. I'm growing carrots, potatoes, and radishes right now, but want to move into some more flowering plants.

I was specifically looking for shade area plantings, so since you asked, i gotta like. thems the rules.

Great information. Would you please do edible plants, herbs that like shallow rocky soil in shade.

I grew cucumbers that only got 3-4 hours of sun last summer and they were the most prolific, beautiful cucumber plants of my life

Oh god I’m about to binge this channel… I looked in the description of this video and the two linked videos are about things I’m literally doing this year and know nothing about (tomatillos and beans in containers)

I’d add bush beans to the list. I’ve done great with bush beans with only 4 hours of direct sun while I need more like 6 hours for pole beans. I’d also look at peppers for locations that get only morning sun if you live in hot climates (this helps avoid sun scald.) Finally, you mentioned limited blueberry varieties due to heat. Check out Rabbiteye blueberry varieties. These grow in the southern US (Georgia to Texas) and handle intense heat just fine. There are lots varieties.

I’m excited to plant my carrots 🥕 got the perfect spot

The black cherry is my favourite early tomato, i find late in the season they split a little easy and i tend to give them to the chickens. Thay have the best flavours tho!

nice video

Runner beans have been doing well for us in shadier areas too.

My neighbor does a lot of home remodeling projects, and he has put a bunch of large mirrors (which his customers no longer want) on the side of his house to add more light to shady areas next to his fence.

Hello. 1st timer here. I enjoyed your video and subscribed. I just wanted to let you know!

I click the like button and subscribe too 😏I live in Minneapolis and we are still in 40s in 2 of may ! Too cold to plant anything and for me to go out ( I am skinny 76 years old lady )