Just because you don't have garden beds, doesn't mean you can't have a garden! Here are some tips and ideas on how to create a non-permanent, easy-to-set-up garden, from the simple to the creative!
Let's start with the basics: pots! You can grow just about anything in a pot, as long as you give your plants the right nutrient, water, space and sunlight requirements. As a general rule, this means a pot that is large enough, has adequate drainage, is in full sun and is fertilised regularly.
You can buy pots at nurseries and garden supply stores, but they are also fairly easy to obtain for free (always handy on a student budget!). You can generally find them on hard rubbish piles, and most people seem to have a few lying around their yard! Ceres Community Environment Park also provides small pots for free in their nursery (bonus: it's a great excuse to check out the amazing plants they have there).
You can buy pots at nurseries and garden supply stores, but they are also fairly easy to obtain for free (always handy on a student budget!). You can generally find them on hard rubbish piles, and most people seem to have a few lying around their yard! Ceres Community Environment Park also provides small pots for free in their nursery (bonus: it's a great excuse to check out the amazing plants they have there).
If you don't mind the look, polystyrene boxes make excellent DIY container gardens, as long as you poke some drainage holes in the bottom! If you ask your local produce store nicely, hopefully they will gift you some.
Get creative as well! There really are endless options with container gardening. Grow potatoes in feed bags, herbs in tin cans, strawberries in old watering cans and flowers in gumboots!