My apartment balcony sizzles in the summertime and the heat kills pretty much anything other than geraniums and cactus that I try to plant out there. I'd need to set up a fairly extensive drip system with a reservoir to keep anything alive, and lug water to it from inside, which isn't practical for me or my roommate to do.
But I have a city farmers market on Saturday mornings walking distance, so I shop there, and I know my favorite coffeeshop's owner shops there, too, because their breakfast and lunch specials on Sunday always feature whatever looked really good that weekend at the farmers market. :-9