How much sun does your garden really need?
Vegetables prefer a full day of sun, but if you live in a shady suburb you don't have to give up the idea of growing vegetables.
Here are some minimum sunlight requirements:
Fruiting Vegetables - eight hours of sun.This includes tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and vine crops such as cucumbers, melons and squash.
Root Vegetables - six hours of sun.This includes carrots, beets, etc.
Leafy Vegetables - four hours of sun.These are your "greens" such as lettuce, spinach and collards.
* Keep in mind that these are minimums. Increasing the amount of sunlight your vegetables receive will increase the yield and quality of your crop.
* Even though your vegetables may get enough light when planted near a tree, they will not get
enough nourishment and water.
Vegetables can't compete with an established tree for essential
nutrients and moisture.
After a year and a half of retirement, the focus on what is important and what is not, is becoming much clearer as time passes by. At this point in time they are, keeping healthy, both in mind and body and being wise in our investments, so we can get a return and hopefully be able a little more comfortable in our later life.
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