My aunt lived in a 50+ neighborhood with an HOA. She grew up on a farm with a vegetable garden & her first home was not HOA so she & my uncle had a big garden & he propagated boxwoods. When she moved to the HOA neighborhood, of course she had to have a garden! She had squash, cukes, peppers & gosh knows what else growing next to the back of her house interspersed with the landscape bushes. I do not know how she got away with growing tomatoes in the front bushes next to her stoop, but she did. A neighbor living behind her was Vietnamese and had a patio with a short wall around it & she grew all sorts of veggies & herbs in that location. Where there’s a will, there’s a way, although you may have to use some ‘camouflage’! :-)
That is what I do! Camouflage! I figure as long as I plant my shishitos around the existing flower beds, very few will notice, especially from the street. Vegetables like tomatoes in pots seem to be very accepted around here. So many people do that.
It will be interesting in the summer to see how much sunlight the areas in the meditation garden will get, now that the old hickory tree has been taken down. If there’s enough, I’m sure I will tuck a few goodies in over there, too.
This past summer, having potatoes, shishitos, and cherry tomatoes, plus my herb garden and flower beds are about all I can keep up with. I’d love to have more if I can figure them out. Other than then, between our farmers market and the orchard market, I can get my hands on great fresh produce, which is how I like it!