Gardening tips Options

[Spectatrix]

So, we're moving in a couple of weeks. I was hoping to find a rental house that had a large-ish, sunny backyard so I could do some gardening (cool-weather stuff starting soon, then spring/summer stuff next year), but the best house for us turned out to be one with a very shady backyard. While I'm sure we could trim some limbs to let more light, the backyard would still remain pretty shady.

My question for you more gardening-savvy folks is: are there any veggies/herbs that you know of that do well in partial shade?

In the meantime, I'm just hoping we can find a decent place for the basil plant that randomly popped up... it's like 3 feet tall now!

This post has been edited by Spectatrix: Jul 9 2008, 03:17 PM

[jwttu]

if you really want to garden I'd follow chucks advice

but here is a good resource for gardening in the shade
http://extension.missouri.edu/xplor/agguides/hort/g06911.htm
that link is from the ag extension out of mizzou, tex a&m also has a pretty good ag extension service

Here is their recommendation on fruits/veggies, basically you need sun

Cool-season salad vegetables such as lettuce, spinach and radishes may benefit from light shading through the heat of the summer. Beans, beets, broccoli, cabbage, kohlrabi, peas, potatoes, rhubarb and turnips will grow in light shade but not produce as large a crop as plants growing in full sun.

Currants and gooseberries are fruits which tolerate medium shade and still produce a crop. Bramble fruits such as blackberries and raspberries grow in light shade, but yields will be reduced.