How about some jumping beens lol . only messing . I'm sorry really you need to leave it till ya boys have outgrown it i think . i dug a whole well got some help to and bricked it up and when the kids grow out of it he's going to sell the trampoline and put a pond liner in it and have a round pond.

Sorry to disappoint you Lbmomma but vegetables need sunlight to grow and regular watering.

thats what i thaught and it would be inpracticle to water them etc . thats twice in one year weve agreed with each other moon grower . what ever is going on lol ? x .

Who knows NP - influence of the moon? We do agree on some things and disagree on others... :-)

must be love.

Mushrooms or rhubarb? The reduced light will give you the same effect as forced rhubbarb, ie longer tender sweeter stems. Mushrooms seems obvious but I know nothing about growing them, which I would assume depends on your soil?

Um you do not grow rhubarb in the shade, to 'force' it you put a bucket without a bottom over it. Mushrooms need a totally different environment.

yet again i agree with moon grower . must be love lol x .

lol

Sorry to interrupt the love affair :-) but I believe rhubarb would still do well under the trampoline ... ? For other plants try hellebores, cyclamens, ferns, hardy geraniums, woodland bulbs.

Avkq how are you going to water anything under there? The soil is likely to be impoverished I would have thought and, living in CA far too hot for our woodland plants - though could work in the UK. That is why mushrooms would be a problem they need shade but not heat. Come to think of it rhubarb needs a period of cold as well.

What would be good is if one of the US veggie growers stepped in on this...

i thaught being the devils advocate i am that rhubarb is only forced for a while then given light to finish it of which would mean moving the trampoline which is inpracticle . the forcing is just the plant stretching up looking for a light source so it can photosynthosize lol . i must have swallowed a dictionary with all the words spelt wrong lol . it mite seam like i just dissagree with mg for the sake of it but this uis not true . im just never going to agree to something i believe not to be right lol . were great pals realy arnt we mg pmsl xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx lol .

Thanks MG and Noseypotter - my thoughts were that a spray with the hose occasionally would be okay for plant suggestions as they are all reasonably drought hardy. Agree mushrooms may not be good if temperatures are year round above 10C, the same applies to beets etc, which like a cold sprouting environment. I withdraw the hellebores, forgetting we are dealing with CA, long beach!! Raspberries are traditionally a woodland berry but 16" is not nearly high enough. The following website is very helpful and recommends ten vegetables that will grow in shade ... http://organicgardening.about.com/od/vegetablesherbs/a/shadeveggies.htm

Best wishes

We are all doing our best to help... at the end of the day Lbmomma will have to make her own mind up - still wish one of the US growers would respond.