Not the best plants to grow especially in a tight space. Cucumbers will take over everything especially close together. The bush varieties are good for container gardens but the tendrils will attach to other plants. I have to keep them off of other plants or provide a trellis to grow. Last year I got an infestation of cucumber beetles. Tomatoes grow like weeds and don't latch on to neighboring plants. Both grow from seed like wild fire.
Lettuce and basil do not provide enough nutrition for this kind of setup. Enough said. Arugula is more profitable than most but will bolt with heat.
>But despite all this money and brainpower, things soon went awry in Jordan. Schroeder, in a phone interview, told Spectrum that the conditions at the NCARE site were harsh, with a very dry desert climate and high indoor temperatures. The power frequently failed, which shut down the building’s air conditioning and the food computers’ LEDs. When the air conditioning conked out, it sometimes reached 45 °C (113 °F) inside the lab.
>Worse, the Wi-Fi was unreliable. A Wi-Fi connection was necessary to remotely monitor some of the parameters inside the grow chambers, which were equipped with cameras and sensors that measured temperature, humidity, and pH levels.
I am in the Deep South and that temperature is not going to work at all. Temps in the 90s will stop my plants from growing, cause flower drop and stop fruiting but humidity here is also a factor, not a factor in Jordan.
Stable power and wifi in a refugee camp? Keep dreaming. This part should be automated with sensors and a solar battery (or backup batter in case of power loss).
I am planning a couple projects with my Raspberry Pi's to collect data and do some automation for my plants. Once I have something going I will submit a few things to HN.
Let me know if anyone wants to know more or has any questions.