When You Have No Soil

Here is my garden this year.  I have a few more pots and containers with spinach and tomatoes.  I also planted artichokes again.  I love this climate, but miss having real dirt in my yard.  Notice in the background that everything is either paved or covered with gravel?  Despite this I am thankful that we have fruit trees: two plums.  When the landlord comes by she always takes a few to snack on.  The workers from the apartments behind us will stop to eat the fruit that hang over the fence.  We share more with neighbors and cousins, and we eat plums til we're sick of them.