☀️ SUNLIGHT MAPPING
☀️ YOUR SUN MAP GARDEN CHECKLIST
Before you plant anything, find out where the sun actually lands on your balcony or yard. This comic teaches you to track light and match each plant to its perfect sunny or shady spot.
- 📄 Grid paper or large sheet: sketch a bird's-eye view of your garden beds, pots, or railing
- ✏️ Colored pencils or markers: yellow for full sun, light green for partial shade, blue for shade
- ⏱️ Watch or phone timer: check the same spots every hour on a clear day
- 🧭 Compass app: note which direction is east (morning sun) and west (afternoon sun)
- 📍 Small stakes or tape: mark corners of beds so your map matches real life
- 🌤️ Pick a sunny day: clouds hide shadows and make mapping harder
Time: one full sunny day of hourly checks · 15 minutes to draw the final map · Re-check each season as trees leaf out
PAGE 1 OF 5, PLANTS ARE SOLAR POWERED
LIGHT = FOOD
SUNLIGHT FEEDS YOUR GARDEN
Plants capture sunlight with green chlorophyll in their leaves and turn it into sugar through photosynthesis. That sugar fuels every root, stem, flower, and fruit. Without enough light, plants stretch tall and pale, searching for the sun like hungry explorers. Too much blazing heat on shade lovers can scorch leaves and dry soil fast. Smart gardeners do not guess where light falls: they map it first, then place each plant where it will thrive.
⚡ DID YOU KNOW?
Leaves work like solar panels: more light means more sugar for growth. Light is literally plant fuel.
POWER!
MORNING
🌅 East-facing spots get gentle morning rays first.
🌱 Seedlings love this soft start before midday heat.
🌱 Seedlings love this soft start before midday heat.
MIDDAY
☀️ Shadows are shortest when the sun rides highest.
🍅 Tomatoes and peppers crave this brightest zone.
🍅 Tomatoes and peppers crave this brightest zone.