Shade- tolerant veggie varieties

Recommendations for shade-tolerant veggie varieties and seed sources? I’ve heard Withner White beans produce pretty good in the shade, but seeds seem out stock everywhere. I have a lot of silvopasture and full sun areas are reserved for things that will die in the shade. And even “full sun” at my place mostly means 6 hours of sun a day (I live in a series of little clearings in the deep dark woods.) I’m not inclined to clear land beyond what I can intensively manage because if the sun hits the soil around here it just turns to sand.

Anything which you primarily eat the leaves or roots of, instead of the fruit. Fruit-producing is what usually needs the most sun.
So:
Salad greens: Arugula, lettuce, sorrel, endive, spinach, collards, kale, mustard greens swiss chard... any of those 'mixed greens spring mix' seed packets.
Roots/Stem Base: Beets, Carrots, Potatoes, Radishes, Rutabaga, Turnips, radicchio, Kohlrabi
Flowers: Broccoli, Cauliflower, brussel sprouts, cabbage
Herbs: Mint, chervil, chives, coriander/cilantro, oregano, parsley, thyme, oregano

Rhubarb and Asparagus also seems to tolerate partial shade/dappled shade, but they will be slow to mature and so you may not be able to harvest from them for a few years, until they get well-established.

While none of them like DEEP SHADE, I've had decent luck with most of these growing under the edge of a tree canopy.

If you want to try beans, try the bush variety of beans.

You might also have good luck with bush peas.

Since you have sun, maybe the problem is not shade but temperature.  Some plants require a specific temperature to sprout, vine, or fruit.

I would suggest looking for varieties that grow well in your part of the world or varieties that have short growing seasons.

I grow MOST of my veg in filtered shade and/or 6 or so hours of sun.   Really it all does just fine.   Too much stuff to list.   I've got too many trees around for even my "full sun" spots to not get a few hours of shade at different times of day.   And I almost never need to water.  

Let's see if I can rattle off a short list; there won't be a lot of super carby stuff though:    fennel, lettuce, dill, chard, stevia, zucchini, spoon tomatoes,  runner beans, pole beans, cucumbers, arugula, mustard, bok choy,  cowpeas, kale, yellow squash, sugar pumpkins, raspberry, sochan, asparagus, rhubarb.  

A few things like figs and melons haven't done great for me.  

I feel you might also have better luck trying some perennial vegetables.

https://permies.com/f/384/perennial-vegetables

Toko Aakster wrote:Anything which you primarily eat the leaves or roots of, instead of the fruit. Fruit-producing is what usually needs the most sun.
So:
Salad greens: Arugula, lettuce, sorrel, endive, spinach, collards, kale, mustard greens swiss chard... any of those 'mixed greens spring mix' seed packets.
Roots/Stem Base: Beets, Carrots, Potatoes, Radishes, Rutabaga, Turnips, radicchio, Kohlrabi
Flowers: Broccoli, Cauliflower, brussel sprouts, cabbage
Herbs: Mint, chervil, chives, coriander/cilantro, oregano, parsley, thyme, oregano

Rhubarb and Asparagus also seems to tolerate partial shade/dappled shade, but they will be slow to mature and so you may not be able to harvest from them for a few years, until they get well-established.

While none of them like DEEP SHADE, I've had decent luck with most of these growing under the edge of a tree canopy.

Really interesting to see you have had luck with potatoes in partial shade. I have a few food plot type clearings I’ve been thinking about planting to potatoes, so I think I’ll try that.