My wife loves her herb and vegetable garden.  Guess who gets to do the gardening? ME!  I find that container gardening is easy and works great.  Here is an article with a list of vegetables that are really easy to grow in containers.  I find that herbs love to grow in containers as well. 

Container gardening is great for apartments or condos, as well as lazy gardeners like me.

Check out this great House Logic article here.