Bought this house last August and set up my first garden I’ve had since I was a kid. I’m getting just the bare minimum for full Sun plants – about 5.5 hours of full Sun in the afternoon an decent spots of sun through the leaves earlier in the day. I bought some reflective wrap and staple it to my fence to give my plants just a little extra light.
It doesn’t look the best (I don’t mind it though) and I doubt it will make a huge difference but for 15 minutes of work and 20 bucks I’m not too worried about it, and it beats painting this dingy old fence white.
by tjwacky
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Whatever helps you feel better.
LED lights have come a LONG way over the years in brightness, quality of light and hardware, price, and energy consumption.
I would arrange things so as to have a nice seating/hangout area in the middle, plants along the sides and maybe an island or two in the middle area, a plant lined path from the back door to the center open area and lights on a timer that kick on in the afternoon and turn off when the plants have received 11.5-12 hours of TOTAL light between direct sun and artificial.
Then all you need is irrigation on a timer. 🤷♂️
Edited to add: You’re going to have to trellis a lot of that and harvest it too, so moving things towards the outside edges will allow you to use the fence to your favor, and give you some walking/working room. As it is now, there won’t be any room when most of that grows up, imho.
Get a second sun!
Have you thought of shade loving plants? Or winter plants, they would probably thrive in the shade of a hot summers. I like to grow lettuce in the shade during the summer to help prevent it from turning bitter