Throwing Shade

The perfect veggie patch boasts a combination of rich soil, good drainage, and plenty of warming, nourishing sunlight. Unfortunately, such perfection is rare for home vegetable growers, and most gardens have areas that dont bask in day-long sunshine. There will be problematic gloomy spots, blanketed in shade cast by trees, buildings, or natural landscape features. But even if your garden has more shade than sunlight, you can still grow your own veggies. Its just a matter of learning what works

If you have a shady yard, meaning a yard that gets less than 6 hour of sun in a day, you might be afraid that you have little to no planting options. The good news is that even with a shade filled yard you can still enjoy lush and beautiful plants that thrive in these conditions. If you want to plant a shade garden to beautify your landscaping, here are 7 Tips for Growing a Shade Garden that you must try. These shade garden growing tips can help you create your own little haven in the shad

Among the flowers in the Partial Shade wildflower seeds ingredients are a host of plants that will do perfectly well in partial shade to full sun. None of these plants will thrive in full shade, but they will perform in diffused light along the north side of a building or hedge. Baby Blue-Eyes Nemophila menziesii Babys Breath Gypsophila elegans Candytuft Iberis umbellata Chinese Forget-Me-Nots Cynoglossum amabile Clarkia Clarkia unguiculata Columbine, dwarf Aquilegia vulgaris

In our relatively short growing season, we need to grow most food crops in a fairly intense way. We need to select crops that mature quickly. Some crops, like mescluns and salad greens grow so fast that we can take several harvests in a single season. Other plants, like pumpkins, use most of the growing season to produce masses of foliage, and then bloom and form fruits as autumn approaches. Whatever the case, the plants we cultivate in our food gardens take nutrients from the soil and ene