New Grower: any help would be very much appreciated

Welcome Patience

Just a suggestion to help people to here help you, if you could put your location in your profile as that can affect any advice given in further posts.

In limited light condition you may be very narrowed on what you can grow successfully to a good size leaf veg such as Lettuce's, Radish, maybe the leaf brassica's, garlic for example. I am sure there will be some more advice to follow.

As for Potatoes they can definetly work in partial shade but you may get a lower yield than ones in the sun, maybe there are varieties suited to these conditions even?

Fruit trees in pots! I got a cherry from B&Q for something like £10, although the pot was more. It's in the soil now but it spent a year and a half travelling around with me. Also means you can move it around occasionally to follow the light when it's sunny or bring it close to the house if windy etc.

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It rather depends on your resources, but my immediate thoughts are:
Get some leaf crops like lettuce, chard, and so on - there are loads to choose from, just look at salad crops in any seed catalogue or garden centre - and sow the seed into a thin layer of compost on top of your usual soil. (Weed thoroughly before you put the compost down.) That way you should have improved germination rates, but the developing root systems will still get the good of the plentiful nutrients in the clay below.
The usual rule of thunb I believe is that vegetables like to get three hours of sunlight a day. Tatties certainly will want a fair bit of sunlight; if nothing else, they thrive on the associated warmth, and grow better with it. Is there any way you can get reflective materiel to put on the adjacent fence/wall to raise the levels of sunlight there ? Even painting adjacent surfaces with white gloss paint can make a small difference - this is done for growing on windowsills. So, tatties at the side might be a bit ambitious. Carrots, I'm not sure about. Some herbs, if you grow them on until they begin to thrive, may do better in shade; I'm sure I've read of ones that prefer partial shade at least.

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There's no reason why you can't grow some veg amongst your flowers in the front garden, leeks and Kale would look pretty.

Have a look at this link it makes intresting reading :-

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Hello and welcome. I agree with Bren in Pots above on this. Swop your bedding plants for eating plants - far more satisfying. Carrot and beetroot have very attractive leaves and rainbow chard will rival any flowers with the colour of its leaves. You can pick a few leaves at a time too so its always available and doesn't leave an empty space. I'm a great fan of cut and come again veg for that reason.

Almost total shade? Not good for much except maybe leafy things: lettuce etc