Stabilising ground cover for shady slope?

[EgremontRusset]

Hi gardeners!

We moved a year ago to a house with a lovely ornamental garden that the previous owner spent lots of time tending. I want to make it low maintenance (we work full time and have DC), more eco friendly, and add perennial fruit/veg/herbs.

This year’s project is a few m2 of shady, sloped raised bed near the house. It’s bare earth except where I’ve replaced a couple of bushes with rosemary, rhubarb, hopefully chard soon. But I think rain is washing the soil down

So I’d like a magical miracle plant please, wise MNers Shade tolerant, ground covering to minimise weeds, good roots to stabilise the slope, hopefully evergreen-ish - oh and ideally edible too!

Ivy (but it's not edible and I hate ivy but might do the trick)?

Berginia or vinca minor would be more attractive.

Persicaria and Lamium (dead nettle) particularly the yellow flowering variety, would grow in shade and help.

Maybe one of the thornless brambles?

Ooh. Also wild garlic

It's not a plant, but on my sloping bed I put a jute sheet, pinned it down with tent pegs, cut crosses in it and planted through it. It hasn't completely stopped gravity, but it has helped, especially as it gave the plants time to establish. It also means less weeding.

How about this?

www.turfonline.co.uk/meadowmat/woodland-shade-mix/

So many great ideas!
I’ll definitely try wild garlic, I put in 50 last year in a different spot and they disappeared without trace.
Looking at thornless brambles - makes me think I could try a ground cover raspberry too.
Then some kind of mix of jute and flowers.

Lonicera pileata. A low evergreen shrub. The tips of the stems root as they go so it soon makes dense cover.