Shade Vegetable Gardens

You can still grow healthy, delicious vegetables in areas where you only have dappled shade, or you only have a few hours of morning sun and shade the rest of the day.

The following do well with less than full sun:

General 

Arugula 

Beets 

Broccoli 

Brussel Sprouts 

Cabbage 

Cauliflower 

Chard 

Dandelion 

Greens 

Kale

Endive 

Kohlrabi 

Lettuce 

Mustard Greens 

Pak Choi 

Parsley

Parsnips 

Sorrel 

Potatoes 

Radiccio 

Spinach 

Swiss Chard 

Turnips 

Pole Beans 

Perpetual Spinach

Alliums

Chives 

Onions 

Garlic 

Leeks 

Shallots

Herbs

Angelica 

Borage 

Caraway 

Lovage 

Mint 

Thyme

Legumes

Beans 

Peas

Berries

Blackberries 

Currants 

Raspberries 

Gooseberries 

Strawberries

Rabbit Resistent Plants

No plants can be said to be rabbit proof. Rabbits eat virtually anything, and most plants are especially vulnerable when young. However, there are some plants which rabbits generally avoid. We have drawn on several sources to provide the suggestions listed here.

In general, rabbits are discouraged by very aromatic plants, prickles and spines, and tough, leathery leaves.

Shrubs

Barberry 

Blue Mist Spirea 

Boxwood 

Broom 

Cotoneaster 

Daphne 

Dogwood

Elder 

Holly 

Rhododendron 

Rose 

Russian Olive 

Russian Sage 

St. John’s Wort 

Snowberry 

Sumac 

Yew 

Yucca

Perennials & Annuals

African Daisy 

Agastache 

Anemone 

Autumn Cross 

Columbine 

Daffodils 

Feverfew 

Foxglove 

Gaillardia 

Geranium (Perennial)

Helleborus

Hyacinth 

Iris 

Lavender 

Lead Plant 

Ligularia 

Lily of the Valley 

Lupine

Monkshood 

Penstemon 

Peony 

Poppy

Red Hot Poker 

Rosemary 

Salvia 

Santolina

Sea Holly 

Sedum 

Silvermound 

Snowdrops 

Solomon’s Seal 

Spurge

Tansy 

Thyme 

Wormwood 

Zinnia

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