Planting More Shade Tollerant Crops In My Container Garden + My Seed Haul For Fall 🥕🍓

Planting more shade tollerant crops in my new vertical planter and sharing with you some ideas on what you can grow in your shady container garden. I also purchased some seed for fall which I talk a bit more about at the end of the video.

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hi everyone in today’s video I’m going to be finally planting up my new vertical planter with some shade tolerant edibles. I’m actually going to be transferring some stuff that I already have in my garden to this vertical planter but then I’m going to be also sowing and planting a couple of new things and also want to share with you my seed haul for this fall so these are all of the crops that I’m going to be sowing mid to late summer to enjoy a nice harvest in the fall, so hope that you’ll find some ideas in today’s video on what you can grow in your shady garden and also how you can extend that growing season and what you can plan to harvest in the fall or even early winter so uh since we saw each other last time in the last video I put together this vertical planter and since then I repainted it I gave it two coats of clear wood preserver and then I actually lined it with plastic bags cuz it came with these kind of grow bags I guess you can call them but I figured this is going to dry out too quickly In the heat of summer I’m I’m not a huge fan of growbags in general because the soil dries out really rapidly in them so whenever I use grow bags I always line them with a plastic bag inside to hold moisture better uh so this is what I did with this planter I lined it with plastic bags and only then I put those grow bags inside and I actually used a little bit of hot glue to kind of give it a nice finish so that the growbags actually stick to the frame of the this planter uh then I filled it up with my multi-purpose poting mix I’m using Lightmix by Plagron which is a multi-purpose potting mix with added perlite and then I also added a generous amount of compost I always try to add organic matter to all of my planters because organic matter not only is a form of slow relase nutrients but it also helps to hold moisture and nutrients better in the soil so this is what I did and this is how I’m going to grow all of my food crops and all of my aromatic plants so uh now I’m going to transfer actually some of the stuff first and then we will sew and plant some new things that I purchased recently so the bottom of this planter will be reserved for lettuce and leafy greens and I have a beautiful lettuce Batavia here and this is ready to harvest but I’m not going to harvest it I’m actually going to transfer it as it is to this last planter and I’m going to share a trick with you perhaps you already know it but if you don’t – don’t harvest your lettuce like this by cutting it at the base because then you only have just this one head of lettuce one time harvest instead pull individual leaves because this way your lettuce will keep producing new fresh leaves and you can enjoy a continuous lettuce harvest from the same plants for several months I seeded this lettuce at the beginning of the year and I am harvesting it every single day and I’ve been harvesting it every single day for the past like two three months and it just keeps growing keeps producing new fresh leaves okay so my lettuce is transferred I’m going to have to water it pretty rapidly before it wilts but but I’m adding two new varieties of lettuce to my garden today I have lettuce grenadine and panise and lettuce and all greens they do really well in full shade and in partial shade even without any direct sunlight at all you can enjoy a really nice harvest and there are many varieties to choose from some are best planted in the spring because they prefer cooler weather but then there are many varieties that you can grow and harvest all the year around and for example lettuce Batavia is one of those varieties that grows really well in the spring in summer and even in the fall some varieties are even quite frost hardy and you can enjoy a nice fresh lettuce harvest even until November or December obviously with a little protection if you garden in very cold climates but let’s transfer these and I’m actually going to be reusing this soil as well because it was fresh soil that I um used at the beginning of the season so it’s been a couple of months only uh since it’s been in use so it’s totally fine to reuse it so I’m planting them quite close to one another because lettuce doesn’t really require a lot of space especially as I said when you’re going to harvest it like on a regular basis you’re going to just you know harvest the individual leaves then it doesn’t really grow to its full size I’m really sorry for the background noise but this guy has been at it since 6:00 in the morning and he’s not done yet so I’m sorry if it annoys you so just adding more soil making sure that all the root balls are covered okay so the first tier is done planted with some leafy greens now onto the second tier and let’s plant some fruits when it comes to growing fruits in the shade um you have several options actually I even made a video about that at the beginning of this year but if you’re going to grow some fruits in the shade opt for those fruits that are paler in color so greens and yellows and whites cuz the darker the fruit the more sun it needs to ripen so some options for you for your shade garden would be blueberries I actually have two blueberry bushes just behind me they grow really well with only a couple of hours of sunlight then gooseberries especially those green and white varieties uh currants also red and white currant uh and then alpine strawberries as long as the traditional strawberry needs at least 5 hours of sunlight to produce abundantly and for the fruits to actually be tasty uh alpine strawberries they grow really well in full shade and in partial shade you have several options here as well I have two different varieties in my garden I have the traditional red Alpine strawberry I don’t even know what’s the name of this particular cultivar but then I also have yellow Alpine strawberry you can see some fruit up here these are called yellow wonder and they are super tasty really sweet and they grow really well even in full shade you can grow alpine strawberries from seeds or you can just buy plug plants you know in in the nursery and they are really great as perennial plants for example traditional strawberries usually after 3 4 years they need to be replaced because they don’t produce as well as they used to versus alpine strawberries they can go on for years like I’ve had the same bushes for maybe seven years now and they keep producing and they come back really well very winter hardy so definitely plant some alpine strawberries in your shady garden so I’m actually going to be transferring my bushes because mine are pretty large now and they take a lot of space on the floor so I want to transfer some of those here in this second tier so alpine strawberries they grow in clumps and they multiply really well so each year you will have more and more and more clumps so you can divide them every year or every couple of years and you will have more appline strawberries there for yourself or to share with with someone and they are really easy maintenance as well should have probably harvested them before because I’m wasting some berries here okay so this third tier will be reserved for herbs many herbs grow really well in full… I wanted to say full sun, full shade, and in partial shade so if you don’t receive any direct sunlight at all chives uh parsley coriander these do really well even without any direct sunlight at all then if your garden receives a couple of hours of sunlight uh basil does really well in partial shade as long as you keep it well watered then mint I recently shared with you in a video a couple of tips on how to grow mint in in pots and then also a couple of really interesting varieties like fruit flavored varieties of mint that I’m also growing in my garden this year um then what else am I missing something lemon balm similarly to Mint also does really well in partial shade so there’s a lot of options out there so in my garden I have basil chives mint parsley and I also bought rosemary recently. Rosemary is best planted in full sun but I want to give it a try and I don’t need a lot of it so I figured let’s give it a try we’ll see what happens so except for mint and lemon balm which are super invasive and are best planted on their own all the rest of the herbs can be planted together in the same planter so my herbs are actually planted in their own individual terracota pots already because I wasn’t planning on buying this uh vertical planter it was kind of um spontaneous purchase but I’m super happy with it so far so I have to transfer them to this planter now so the thing is I have some space here for Parsley the only problem is that my parsley is absolutely enormous and it will not fit in this planer at all so this is my parsley I kept it from last year so it’s it’s second year and it’s a biennial plant so it’s starting to bloom which is not the best so I might actually just harvest the rest of it and then buy a new fresh plant young plant that I can transfer to my to my planter planter okay so let’s finally plant some seeds today so for this last planter I was hesitating between arugula but then I figured I already have one planter with arugula and now I have all this lettuce planted in this first uh container so maybe let’s try something else and I have a lot of radish seeds left radish grows really well in partial shade and I plant it every year but technically radish is a cool weather crop so it’s best sown either in the spring or in the fall but this spring was super rainy it rained every single day so all the radish that I planted at the beginning of the year rotted out so I couldn’t enjoy any harvest uh from my garden this year and because the temperatures are still mild like today is literally the first day I’m out here wearing a t-shirt it’s been pretty cold recently like the temperatures drops down to 10 degrees celcius at night and then during the day it’s in low 20s which is very unusual for us for June usually we have temperatures in you know high 30s around this time of year but given that it’s still pretty mild I think I may have some chances and still enjoy a nice reddish harvest so I have a mix of all kinds of seeds yellow purple white red all kinds of radish so why don’t we just sew all of this in this planter and see what happens okay so I kind of mixed all the seeds in my hand and I’m just going to scatter them in these small trays that I made and obviously different varieties have slightly different time from seed to to hard vest but that’s okay because I’m just going to you know harvest them as they grow and whatever um grows first will be harvested first as simply as this and by the time I harvest all the radish I’ll be ready to plant some crops for fall I’m just gently scattering them in this Trace try to sow them thinly but in all cases once they start to germinate I’m going to have to thin them out so that they have enough space to develop properly so now just gently cover them with about 1 to 2 cm of potting mix I just watered everything let me give you a really quick look at this space now now and by the way when I said that I lined these planters with plastic bag I obviously cut drainage holes plenty of drainage holes at the bottom of each of these bags and then this uh fabric is porous so the water can evacuate properly so this is how the space looks for now um this little tomato here on the floor is going to join the strawberry over there on the railings I actually bought two plant supports they should be delivered any day now so the tomato and the strawberry will be uh hung on the on the railing on the railings so the planter is all planted up and I have plenty of floor space right now I mean when I say plenty I mean obviously for balcony gardening conditions then I have two planters over there in the corner with arugula and additional strawberries alpine strawberries and two blueberry bushes on the side so I’m really happy with how it turned out I have a little bit more space to walk here some of these plants won’t stay here like these two probably will be transferred somewhere else and this lily as well look at how enormous she is and she smells so amazing it is royal lily Lilium regale I kept it from last year because they are quite winter hardy and it grew like it doubled in size since last year smells absolutely amazing but it can’t stay here it takes way too much space over here all right so just to finish with this video I want to really quickly share with you my small seed haul for this fall so all the crops that I’m going to be sowing me need to late summer to enjoy nice harvest in the fall and early winter there’s plenty of crops that grow really well during those cooler months uh so here again plenty of um leafy greens and lettuce but also root crops. root crops are cool weather plants so they are best sown either in the spring or in the fall but the thing is that root crops actually taste better when they are exposed to cooler temperatures so for example when you sow them in the spring you know you sow them early in the year when it’s still cold so they germinate in cooler temperatures but then as the season progresses it becomes progressively warmer So at their maturity the temperatures are pretty mild already but in the fall it’s the reverse so when you sow them the temperatures are pretty warm and then it gets progressively cooler so as they mature they are exposed to cooler temperatures but the really cool thing about plants is that when they are exposed to cooler temperatures they start to accumulate sugars so your root crops being exposed to cooler temperatures will start to accumulate more sugars and that will make them more sweet and more tasty so there is a um bigger advantage let’s say of growing root crops in the fall versus in the spring so you can grow pretty much any root crops beach roots turnips parsley root um carrots even if you have a shady garden you can still plant root crops they grow really well so for my garden for this fall I picked um some root crops and some greens so for root crops I picked mostly turnips I still have some beetroots seeds but I’m not sure if I’m actually going to be sowing beetroots that depends how much space I will have but um definitely going to grow some turnips and I picked two varieties I picked Golden Ball there’s also Golden Globe which is somewhat similar they are yellow turnips varieties both the skin and the flesh is yellow and they are soft and very sweet they can be eaten row and then another variety that I picked is Purple Top White Globe and this one actually has a pretty tasty leaves , I don’t know if you guys knew this but uh turnips both the root and the leaves are edible some leaves are more tastier than others I mean on some varieties and this Purple Top White Globe actually has a pretty tasty Leaf so it kind of doubles as a salad crop uh and this is actually heirloom variety and here again can be eaten row can be cooked so these are the two tournips I’m going to be growing and then I also picked some lettuce varieties and as I said although the Batavia that I’m growing right now could be grown year round I want to try some other varieties that are more suitable for cooler uh temperatures and one of those lettuce is lettuce um Oakleaf this one can be seeded at any time of the year and harvested at any time of the year so I’m hoping to have a continuous Harvest throughout winter I’m obviously going to protect this lettuce with some horticultural fleece because we do have temperatures below freezing but I really want to give it a try and grow lettuce over winter with some little protection so I’m really excited to see how that goes and then another lettuce variety that I picked is lettuce red salad bowl this is a red lettuce variety and this one is also great for fall Harvest because it grows really well in cooler temperatures and if you sew it at the end of the season sometime at the end of summer you can uh keep harvesting it all the way until early winter so I’m not sure if this one can actually over winter in my climate but I’m going to give it a try I’m going to protect it with some horiculture fleece as well and we will see how that goes okay you guys I feel like I spoke so much in this video that this video is going to be like 1 hour long but I hope that everything that I shared this video is going to be at least to some degree helpful to you especially if you are also gardening in the shade hope that you found some ideas and some inspiration on what you can grow in your balcony garden thanks so much for watching and we’ll see each other in the next one