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- Grow berries in the shade
- Raspberries and blackberries - shadowy with risks
- Cranberries, blueberries and wild strawberries
- Grow gooseberries in the shade
- Tips
Blueberries also thrive in the shade
Grow berries in the shade
During the heat of summer, most gardeners are grateful for the shadows cast in the garden by trees and houses. However, as sunny locations are necessary for the cultivation of many types of vegetables and fruits, only selected berries are available for harvesting from the shady part of the garden in addition to certain herbs.
Raspberries and blackberries - shadowy with risks
Although many raspberry and blackberry varieties prefer sunny or partially shaded locations, they are usually able to cope with pronounced shadows. However, with raspberries and blackberries you have to be prepared for the fact that the yields in the shade are not necessarily intoxicatingly generous. In addition, the fruit in the shade can spoil faster due to the slower drying after wet weather periods on the plants. The susceptibility to fungal diseases is usually higher when growing berries in the shade than when planting in sunny or partially shaded garden areas.
Cranberries, blueberries and wild strawberries
Cranberries and wild blueberries are found in nature mainly in relatively dense forests with acidic soil. Accordingly, these typical moor dwellers tolerate a pronounced shady location in their home garden. However, for a good thriving you should make sure that at least the uppermost soil layer consists of rather acidic, peaty substrate. While the berries of the wild blueberry, like the much larger blueberry berries, can be consumed directly from the shrub, cranberries are generally used more for cooking. This is how the following products made from cranberries are easy to make:
Wild strawberries do not need acidic soil, but thrive in a very shady garden area, similar to blueberries and cranberries.
Grow gooseberries in the shade
Although gooseberries provide very good yields in very sunny locations, problems with the fruit can occur in very hot summer weather, which is particularly noticeable on high-stem gooseberries. For gooseberries, therefore, a location should be chosen which is at least during the lunch time in the shade.
Tips
The Kamchatka honeysuckle, also sold as Maiberere, is still relatively unknown. Its blue fruits are similar in flavor to the blueberries, but the plant makes less demands on the location than a blueberry bush.