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Outside of weird edge cases (like mushrooms), how does this work when the plants use the sunlight and so do the solar panels?


There are plenty of places in the garden around my home that either are always shaded or are only in full sun for a few hours a day. Yet there isn't one spot (except under my house) where nothing grows. Suitable spacing, height and angle of panels (which could adjust during the day) and choice of crop all would come into the mix of what would work.


for staff-of-life crops like potatoes and grains, it's a bad idea, but an awful lot of common crops like lettuce benefit from having less than full sun





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