Urban Reclaimation - Which Veg?

My neighbours and I are reclaiming a little strip of scrap waste land that borders our shared alleyway to the rear of our properties to grow extra veg (we all have tiny gardens!). As it is in an alleyway, it is in partial shade but does get a reasonable amount of light, enough certainly for the weeds and wild plants to flourish without help anyway! The are I have is roughyl 10' by 2' in size. The soil is clay and hard at the moment so we are going to put a raised bed over and turn in some good compost and top soil.

Question is, which veggies? I am of the mind to put some runner beans, some onions and some peas here but I am open to suggestions.......good crops for partially shaded areas...?

What about a couple of chard plants. They give a really good return. There's a good string about it on here.
Also, broad beans, they've done really well in a shaded bit of my tiny back garden.
Good luck with your project.
M

Wrong time for onion sets but you could sow some spring onions.

You could sow peas but bear in mind they are much less productive than climbing beans and you haven't got much space to play with and given the time of year I would think you need something productive and quick!

Okay thanks again! I think we will go with runners and lettuces then. We mainly grow in pots as we have a tiny yard type garden and we are balancing what we can grow against what we eat and what space we have available and not everything ticks the boxes!!

I don't mind runner beans but we won't eat stacks of them. Spinach might be worth us trying and lettuce is a goer! That'll do us for this year then. Spring onions are a good idea too, thanks!

Beans are said to be unhappy next to onions - I don't know whether spring onions would have the same effect.