Thursday May 13th 2021
- Sun arrives:
- 9:40am sun arrives at west edge of yard
- 10:55am arrives at east edge of trays (ie trays fully lit) placed on chair/table in their normal position
- 12:00pm arrives at west edge of bottom step
- 12:10pm bottom step fully lit
- 12:20pm top step fully lit (--> since shade on top step by 3:40pm, = only 3.5 hours of direct sun!)
- 12:20pm MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF YARD IS IN FULL SUN BRIEFLY (essentially whole yard just not quit the margin)
- Shade arrives:
- 12:15pm SHADE arrives a west edge of yard
- 12:30pm 16”of shade
- 1:00pm 56” of shade
- 1:15pm 72” of shade --> So, the line moves at 72” per hour (that’s more than 1” per minute!) or 6 feet/hour
- 1:30pm: I can move chair into west bed in front of peas and be in shade
- 1:45pm: shade has reached west edge of patio stones
- 2:10pm: shade has reached west edge of second row of patio stones, so about half an hour per patio stone.
- 3:40pm: full yard is back in shade
So, the yard gets only 3.5 hours of direct sun in any one spot! And yet a vast array of vegetables do fine here. (Peppers an exception.)
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