If you are residing in an apartment building, what about the roof? Maybe the landlord would not object if there was some safe space to put some garden boxes etc?

I would start harrassing neighbours, in return you could offer some fresh veggies and such...

when you can;t fig in the soil, can you do container gardening? (this is mostly aimed at Roebrt who ays his patrents won;t let him mess up the yard...)

what little soil ther is around ym palce is almot undoubtedly so toxic I wouldn;t want to ewat anything grown in it. but I do have containers fileld with good organic potting mix and in season I;ve been growing raspberries, lettuces, grapes, tomatoes, basil, hot peppers, CHinee greens, strawberries, peppermint, rosemary, catnip, watercress, lavender,sage, thyme, oregano, stevia, Chinese smow peas, squash, some cooking greens (kale and colalrd and CHiene mustard etc.), arugula. got a few shelling ebans this year and will try them again next year. if ou are reusing cxontainers and the oil in them, it;s a good ideda to rotate a legume (beans, epas etc) with other crops to re-fix nitrogen in the soil. I also have some medicinal herbs in pots - feverfew, echinacea among others, need to think about it - and I have some little starts for celery and broccoli, but itls too early tosay how successful they will be in containers - also an artichoke crown. I even got a few late-pseason eggplant this year, which says somethihng about glabal warming I'm afraid.. I have a red currant bush but didn;t get much offof it this lat season. I pruned it and will try again.

rememebr you can use the leaves from grapes (Greek dolams are fabulous!) and raspberries (red raspeberry elaf tea is a good slightly bitter medicinal, tastes a ittel like greent ea). I have a pet tortoise who alo helps eat the leaves I prune from grape and currant and some other palnts.