What could you grow?
Tell us your space. You'll see the system that fits, what it costs, and roughly what it grows and uses in water and electricity.
We'd suggest
Wall-Mounted NFT, 4 tiers × 2.8 m
R 6 489complete system, including installation
- Plants
- 56
- Space
- 2.8 m of wall, 15 cm deep
- Harvest
- about 43–49 heads a month, once running
- Water
- 8–14 L a day, topped up into a 100 L reservoir
- Electricity
- about 20 kWh a month (R80)
- Load-shedding
- about 112 Wh of backup for 4 hours without power
- 4 tiers fit under a 2.40 m ceiling (needs 2.33 m).
- The pump runs around the clock: NFT roots hold almost no water.
Estimates: where these numbers come from
Price from our costing tool (2026-10-11). Harvest and water are planning ranges from published trials, until our own measurements replace them. Real results depend on the crop, the season and how the system is run.