Veg Patch Location

[alexeisenberg]

Hi

I am a novice to growing vegetables and am looking for some advice on whether where we'd like to sow our seeds is a good spot or not.

We have a small south facing urban garden. We have created a good sized double height raised bed at the end of the garden which is about 2m squared which has been well cultivated and new compost added. It sits in front of the back garden wall and there is a relatively large shrub which has creeping roots and has some overhang over the bed (although this could be cut back). I am concerned about both these things! I would say that this area of the garden gets sun for around 6 hours a day.

What do you think? Is this going to work out for us or not?

I have attached a photo of the garden. You can see the proposed veg patch at the back of the garden. The photo was taken at 10am on June 1st.

Some advice would be appreciated.

Many Thanks

Alex

[WendyC]

It's a bit shady. Nearer the house would be sunnier, there's a lovely patch of sun in the bottom right of your picture, but of course that might be not so sunny later on in the day. If you could prune back the shrubs that might make quite a bit of difference. Although it is getting about 6 hours of sun now, we are approaching midsummer so will get about 6 hours or more for the next 6 weeks, after that it will be less, so probably not great if you were hoping to grow over the Autumn/ Winter. I think the roots are of less concern on;y that you will need to water. Try it an see what works!

[Two_Sheds]

Veg needs to be grown in the sunniest possible place

[Tadpole123]

Prune back the shrub hanging over it to let in more light and for better air circulation.
I have a garden narrower than yours and 3 massive sycamore trees in neighbour's gardens either side. So I have a shady south facing garden.

I can grow most things but my harvests are smaller than if it were sunnier, and I suspect you'll be the same.

Put toms and other sun loving plants in the sunniest spot you have and you'll be fine, everything else will grow but you'll get a smaller harvest.
My toms for example get around 6 hours a day but in 3 sessions as the sun bobs behind trees. I'm still picking toms in November some years and I can get 5 to 6 trusses.
You can grow lots of things in that bed which will be happy there.

What do you want to grow and eat?