Many condominium and apartment dwellers are having excellent success planting gardens in containers. We're an urban garden store and many of our clients do not have inground gardens. The biggest advantage is that you have more control over this kind of garden.
Container gardening is ideal when space is limited.
Plants can be moved around easily, to be changed or revived as you like and to be enjoyed at close range. The cardinal rule for planting in pots is that the plants depend on the gardener to live. They can't get anything out of the soil, so you must provide it all. Watch them for a while and see what they demand. Mike Davis, owner of The Garden Room in Milwaukee, agrees that you must be willing to make a commitment.