45 Fun Things To Grow In The City. Turn an urban yard or balcony into your personal vegetable farm. Vegetable gardening is back in fashion Concern about the environment & the desire to eat food unpolluted by chemicals, to buy local & to be thrifty are some of the reasons. Urbanites who have never grown a thing are now eager to try to cultivate vegetables, herbs & fruit in back & front yards, on rooftops & on balconies in any suitable space they can find. This book focuses on edible plants that can be easily grown in a city setting, many of which are seldom featured in other gardening books.