[nafex] Fruiting plants that can do well with mid-summer shade inMinnesota

Elizabeth Hilborn ehilborn at mebtel.net
Fri Feb 24 15:26:48 EST 2012


Dave,
I have had some fruiting with shaded blueberries. I don't know if you 
will have the same result as I am much farther south.

Betsy Hilborn
7a NC

On 2/23/2012 11:46 PM, Dan Nave wrote:
> I have a narrow garden area about 7 feet wide along the north side of my driveway which gets mid
> morning to mid/late afternoon sun in the spring and the fall but, because there is a tall maple tree
> that is overhanging the garden, doesn't get much direct sun in the middle of the summer.  I had
> wanted to plant fruiting trees or bushes there, but wondered what I could plant there because of the
> sunlight issue.  Also, it would be better if they were 5 to 8 or 10 feet tall or so because my wife
> will want to plant some shorter plants in the front and the garden slopes slightly down in the back
> (north). I did have some currant plants started there and they got some fruit, but they got kind of
> lost behind other competing plants and didn't seem to have all that much fruit or get as tall as
> some I planted last year in a different area.
>
> Are there some plants that either fruit early or later in the year that could benefit from the
> spring and fall sun that should reach them when the sun is not directly overhead?  Would the early
> or late timing of fruiting help the ripening of fruit considering that they may get more direct sun
> early and late in the year?
>
> This is for zone 4 in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, probably zone 4b most of the time, but I
> have been going for plants that will take zone 4a at least.
>
> I was thinking of Haskap, or perhaps even some Hardy Kiwi with a vertical arbor.  Maybe Aronia?
>
> Any comments on these or any other suggestions?
>
> Dan
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