21 Edible Plants to GROW IN THE SHADE 🌿 Let's grow more food at Home 🌿 Growing Food in Shade

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Hope this is added to the description box, but if not, it's here: 1:57 rainbow chard 2:36 sweet potato 3:36 rocket 4:28 lettuce 5:21 tamarillo 6:58 kale 7:22 nasturtium 8:10 alpine strawberries 8:50 radish 9:26 blueberry 10:28 celery 11:33 parsley 12:21 mint 13:29 rhubarb 13:49 bush beans 14:21 monstera 15:20 ginger 15:47 cardamom ginger 16:19 chives 18:02 mushrooms 18:54 strawberry guava

EDIBLE SHADE PLANTS 1- Rainbow chard, lots of dishes 2- Sweet Potato, full shade ok, dies back on frost, but returns when warm, more edible greens than tubers when planted in shade 3- Rocket, keep wetter, or gets bitter when dry 4- Lettuce, doesn't like heat 5- Tamarillo, sour/tart, need wind_frost protection, 6- Kale, slows in shade, 7- Nasturtium, wraps, salads, pestos and many recipes, 8- Alpine Strawberries, white variety tastes like pineapple 9- Radish, fast 10- Blueberry, good understory plant, under pines, ok in pots 11- Celery, slow to establish, then prolific, keep moist, or it will go bitter 12- Parsley, 13- Mint, has runners underground, 14- Rhubarb, heavy feeder, needs compost, 15- Bush beans, 16- Monstera, big beautiful leaves once established 17- Ginger 18- Cardamom Ginger, 19- Chives, 20- Herbs, 21- Mushrooms 22- Guava tree,

Regarding Mint: LOL everyone says the same thing about mint being invasive. Is it? Well yes.....well kinda....well it really depends on you and how much your in your garden. I grow both Peppermint and Spearmint as part of a guild under my ENOURMOUS American Sycamore tree in the front yard. I've been growing it for 10 years. All about it are many many other flowers and shrubs and we all get along fine :) I agree that putting mint in a pot is a good idea. But if you are in your garden all the time as I am it really is no big deal to push it back when needed. But NEVER plant it in an area that you rarely visit (unless your on 40 acres). That is the big problem with mint....out of sight....out of mind....out of control! LOL Mine is breathtakingly beautiful and I love it.

My parents once planted mint with their roses. In a year it had completely taken over the bed and choked out the roses. Subsequently, mint is forever going to be planted in a pot in my garden.

I am a shade gardener (only partial sun in a very small area and the rest is partial to full shade). I grow many herbs well in partial shade- lovage (perennial), common sage, thyme , self-seeding cilantro, dill, lemon balm, garlic and all those you’ve already mentioned. But I had to pop into the comments to mention chives- I grow mine in partial shade and since they’re a perennial, once established they tend to flourish even in shade and they readily a elf sow- I planted one and now have about 12 plus the mother plant. I didn’t have much use for chives until I discovered dehydrating them. I’m in Canada so I don’t have fresh herbs year round so drying herbs is a common practice for me. However, because of the abundance last year, I chopped some to dry. I used it so much they barely lasted us 6wks. I was sorry I hadn’t dried more. This year I now know how much I love them so will harvest and dehydrate a bumper crop of them. I highly recommend it

A delightful well done presentation. I’m a horticulturist. My advice is: try it in the shade. As of now there are no plant police so plant cruelty isn’t a felony

I've got nothing but shade, so this is what I've been looking for. Love the shots of the meals you make using what you've grown. Gives me more inspiration.

Thanks.There was no scrolling and no BGM. I could stare at you speaking about those plants grown in shade and listen to every word you spoke with my ears without any distraction. Wonderful, unstoppable video.

I absolutely love all the bird sounds at the end because we don’t have birds that sound like that here so it’s fun to hear them in the background while you’re talking 🙂

Just found your channel. I grow a lot of different mints and make teas out of them. Iced mint teas are super refreshing in the summer and a comfort hot tea in the winter months. It's fun to combine several of them together - Peppermint with Chocolate Mint, Lemon Balm with Catmint, Spearmint with Sweet Mint etc. They're also super nutritious.

Honey berries and cilantro grow well in the shade. When I was a child in Spring River, Oregon in the United States, we loved finding the tiny wild strawberries that seemed to grow everywhere in the forests there that I used to wander in as a child in the late spring and summer months. They were the sweetest most delicious strawberries I have ever tasted in my entire life. I have missed them so much as an adult...especially since I moved away when I was about 12 years old and am 56 now. But I never knew what kind of strawberries those were. Thank you so much for sharing what they are called. Now I can plant them in the shady area of my garden and relive that part of my childhood which was so sweet. So cool!

Oh my! Sweet potatoes as ground cover -Brilliant! I have never considered this even though they take over my backyard garden every year. I should research this further to see how far I could take this.

I planted garlic last fall to overwinter in a shady area.It is thriving this spring! My first garlic crop, I'm so excited! Thank you for this list!

I have tamarillo trees growing through my rainforest and love snacking on them when I am working down there

Thanks for your insights. I've been gardening for decades, but I learned some new things from you and appreciate your insights. Go Kiwis!

This is a good reference to anyone starting shed growing. Thanks 🙏

your plants prolly do so well in the shade bc your smile is all the sunshine they need😁

Thank you for this video! You've inspired me to look harder at my shady areas and not give up on them :)

Superb ideas for challenging areas of the yard! TY so much!