Growing vegetables in gravel.

We rent at the moment. Rather a daunting thing for us as we always had our own property. ( the farm) and there was not a lot of garden. The back yard is all gravel but John has managed to grow things in the past year or so. There are a couple of small beds, the one that the radishes are currently in, when we arrived it had small tomatoes but they have since seeded into the gravel by the clothes line. This year we have red runner beans just getting started. The Lebanese zuccini (my favorite) has gone mad and the cucumbers are producing well. One of last year's globe chilli is fruiting and new seedlings are doing well. Even the left over sweet potato is taking off. Magic and it keeps him busy L We has 1.2 mm of rain this morning. Would like more but it is cool and has freshened things up. I grow some of my herbs in amongst the flowers out the front. It is a shame about the apricot tree, 1 apricot and it has gummosis. We do like a garden.