The system that matches you.
Wally, Homie, or Tobato. Scan the QR code on the box and Vegardi pre-loads your exact model, then renders your channels and slots as a planting map you can tap.
Wally · Homie · TobatoThe intelligence inside every NatureTech system
Your system grows the food. Vegardi guides every decision.
Vegardi is your Personal Grow OS. It knows your system, your crops, and your climate, then tells you exactly what to do, and when. Guided, not guessing, from first seed to every harvest.
The system you own
The smart plug that keeps watch
Gardi, your growing advisor
NatureTech owners
Every system comes with one full year of Vegardi Premium, free. After that, you keep everything. Nothing is locked away.
Hardware, meet intelligence
One setup. Three layers that work as one.
Your NatureTech system is built to grow. Vegardi is built to know. The QR code in the box links the two in minutes, so the app mirrors your real, physical garden from the very first day.
The smart plug that keeps watch.
The smart plug connects to your pump. It runs your irrigation cycles, confirms everything is working as it should, and quietly watches over the system around the clock, so the heart of your garden keeps beating and you can simply enjoy growing.
Pump · Irrigation · AlertsGardi, your growing genius.
Gardi reasons through your situation the way an expert agronomist would, built on real research and 14 years of growing knowledge. It already knows your plants and where each one is in its cycle, so the guidance is precise, not a canned answer.
Expert agronomy on call
The app that grows with you
A garden that walks you through every day.
Open the app and you don't see a generic dashboard. You see your Wally, your lettuce at day 28, your next three tasks, and a calm word from Gardi when there's nothing to do at all.
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Your care plan, personalized.
A daily list built from your system, your environment, and your crops. Each task explains what to do, why it matters now, and how long it takes. You always know what comes next.
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Something looks wrong? Snap a photo.
Plant Doctor reads the image, ranks the likely causes with a confidence score, and walks you through the fix step by step, including a follow-up check to confirm it worked.
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Alerts, only when you need them.
The smart plug watches your pump. Vegardi watches the forecast. You hear about a frost or heat wave in time to act, while it still makes a difference, and stay quiet the rest of the time.
Everything in one place
One app for every part of growing.
Vegardi replaces the notebook, the forum searches, and the guesswork. Every tool below is calibrated to your specific garden.
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Daily task engine
When your basil hits day 18, a pruning task appears. Timing comes from tested growing protocols, not a generic calendar.
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Plant Doctor
Photo-based diagnosis for pests, deficiencies, and disease, ranked by confidence and filtered to your exact crop.
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Ask Gardi, anytime
A growing advisor that already knows your context. Ask anything and turn the answer into scheduled tasks in one tap.
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What can I grow now?
It already knows your system and season, so it hands you a ranked list of crops that will actually thrive where you live, right now.
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Nutrient & water log
Log EC and pH in seconds. Real-time validation against your plant mix turns a raw number into a clear decision.
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Learn Hub
Your growing school, from first principles to expert level: lessons, How-To cards for next-level techniques, and full plant and pest indexes packed with everything you'd want to know.
Why Vegardi is different
Not just another gardening app.
Every app promises guidance. Here is what Vegardi actually does differently.
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It already knows your garden.
Most apps start from zero every time you open them. Vegardi knows your system, your crops, when you planted, where you live, and what happened last week. Every answer starts from real context, not a blank slate, and it stays that way even on the free plan.
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It diagnoses, not just labels.
Most apps hand you a guess and disappear. Vegardi asks the right questions, weighs competing causes, and narrows down what is actually happening, the way a professional agronomist would.
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It stays until it's solved.
A plan you can follow. A follow-up photo request after three days. Adjusted treatment if needed. Vegardi doesn't answer and leave. It walks with you through resolution.
24/7
Advisor availability
100+
Edible crop varieties
160+
Pests, diseases, and deficiencies
14 yrs
Of growing knowledge built in
See it in action
What guidance actually looks like.
This is the app that comes with your NatureTech system. Here are three of the many moments it supports every day, alongside the tools, guidance, and knowledge that grow with you.
Weekly Maintenance
Keep your nutrient solution balanced.
This short but essential maintenance helps keep the nutrient solution optimal. It includes refilling the reservoir, adjusting EC/PPM, and balancing pH according to app guidelines.
What you'll need
EC meter / PPM meter
Digital pH meter / Chemical pH test kit / pH test stripsDigital pH meter is recommended; chemical test kit or litmus paper strips also work.
pH Up
pH Down
Hydroponic nutrientsMust be a hydroponic-specific formulation. Regular garden fertilizer is not suitable.
Fresh waterA water filter (RO) is needed only if your starting tap water EC is high.
Measuring cupFor pouring and measuring larger volumes.
SyringeFor precise drop-by-drop measurements.
Safety notes
Never pour pH Up and pH Down directly into each other. Always add to the reservoir water, one at a time, and wait between adjustments.
Wear gloves and eye protection when handling the concentrated nutrient and pH bottles. Once diluted in the reservoir, the solution is safe to contact briefly.
Do not touch the water while the pump is running. Disconnect the transformer before extended maintenance.
Best practices
Add nutrient concentrate before adjusting pH. Nutrients shift pH on their own, so adjusting first wastes your work.
Adjust in small increments (1 to 2 ml for a 20 to 40 L reservoir). Wait a few minutes between doses and re-measure before adding more.
What to do
1Step 1 of 5
Refill water tank
Top up your reservoir with fresh water to compensate for what plants drank and evaporated during the week. Stop about 5 cm from the top.
Step done
2Step 2 of 5
Measure EC/PPM
Rinse the EC/PPM meter probe, insert it into the reservoir, and wait for the reading to stabilize. Write down the number before adjusting anything.
Step done
3Step 3 of 5
Adjust EC/PPM
Add a little hydroponic nutrient concentrate, stir gently, and measure again. Repeat until you reach the recommended range.
Step done
4Step 4 of 5
Measure pH
Rinse the pH probe, insert it into the reservoir, and wait for the reading to stabilize. Most hydroponic crops thrive between 5.5 and 6.5.
Step done
5Step 5 of 5
Adjust pH
If pH is too high, add pH Down in 1 to 2 ml increments. If too low, add pH Up the same way. Stir, wait, re-measure.
Step done
Automatic follow-up
Reminds you every 7 days
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Ask Gardi
Weekly Maintenance is due. 10 minutes and your nutrient solution stays balanced.
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Task Detail
Every task, fully guided.
Tools, safety, best practices, and a step-by-step walkthrough. Nothing left to your own research.
Lettuce
Lettuce
Lactuca sativa
My photos
MY LETTUCE
My Lettuce
Kitchen Wall Garden (Wally Smart 32)
9 plants total · across 2 plantings
Planted Apr 29
Active
VegetativeDay 28 of 50
1 plant needs attention
Planted May 19
Active
SeedlingDay 8 of 50
ABOUT LETTUCE
Overview
Diverse salad crop cultivated for millennia, from crispheads to tender romaines. Descended from wild lettuce of West Asia. Fast-growing, beginner-friendly, and tolerant of imperfect care.
Learn more about Lettuce
Growth stages
Germination
Days 0 to 5
Seedling
Days 5 to 10
Vegetative
Days 10 to 30
Maturity
Days 30 to 50
Harvest
Around day 50
Cycle end
Around day 80
GROWING PREFERENCES
Environment
Optimal temp
10 to 22°C
Min night temp
5°C
Light (sun hours)
4 to 8h (optimal ~6h)
Nutrient solution
EC range
0.8 to 1.2
pH range
5.5 to 6.5
System compatibility
NFTDWCSWC
Have questions about growing Lettuce?
Gardi knows this plant inside out
Lettuce
Lactuca sativa
Easy
Difficulty
Light
4-8h
Water
Medium
50
Days
Harvest
15cm
Spacing
Apart
Lettuce is the veggie you want to grow. It grows fast, you can harvest from the same plant for over a month straight, it's easy to care for, and it saves real money at the store. If you're starting out, start here.
What does lettuce love?
Preferred conditions
Not too hot, not too cold. Moderate light, average spacing. Lettuce likes it balanced.
Temp
10-22°C
Light
4-8 hours
Harvest
~50 days
Spacing
15-20 cm
Best months
J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Feed it right
Preferred nutrient levels
Minimal feeding, average acidity. Lettuce is low maintenance, no drama.
EC
Conductivity
Nutrient concentration
0.8 to 1.2
pH
Acidity
Water acidity level
5.5 to 6.5
PPM
Dissolved nutrients
Parts per million
560 to 840
Growing methods
Grows well together
NFT
DWC
SWC
~ Soil
Aeroponics
From experienced growers
Grower's notes
Tips
Warnings
Avoid afternoon sun in hot climates. Lettuce bolts quickly above 25°C. Move to shade or use shade cloth.
Plant every 2 weeks for continuous harvest. When one batch peaks, the next is already growing.
Harvest in the morning when leaves are crispest. Pick outer leaves first, the plant keeps producing from the center.
More than just a leaf
Why we love lettuce
Health benefits
In the kitchen
Packed with vitamins A and K, folate, and antioxidants. Almost zero calories, high water content. Fresh from your garden, maximum nutrients, zero pesticides.
148%
Vitamin A
128%
Vitamin K
15%
Vitamin C
10%
Folate
5%
Iron
14
Calories
Read full guide on Learn Hub
Have questions about Lettuce?
Gardi knows this plant inside out
Plant Detail · Encyclopedia
Tap any plant. Learn anything.
Plant info on top, then dive into a full library entry. Real data, real plants. From your Wally directly.
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Gardi
Knows your Wally
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Gardi · Live chat
Ask anything. Get the next step.
Real answers grounded in your system data, weather, plant history, and 12,000 research entries.
Meet Gardi
A growing advisor that never makes it up.
Gardi is the voice inside Vegardi. Ask why your tomato leaves are curling and a generic assistant gives you a generic article. Ask Gardi and it knows it's cherry tomatoes at day 43, in an NFT system, with a pH reading you logged three days ago. The answer is about your plant, not a plant.
Your free year, and what comes after
Premium for a year. Yours forever after.
Buy any NatureTech system and Vegardi Premium is included free for twelve months. When the year ends, your garden, your history, and every core feature stay exactly where they are.
Year One · Premium
Free for 12 months
The complete Personal Grow OS, switched on from day one. After year one, Premium is $149/year, with 20% off your second year as a NatureTech owner.
- Unlimited Ask Gardi conversations
- Unlimited Plant Doctor diagnoses
- Full daily task engine and weather alerts
- Smart plug control and monitoring
- Learn Hub, journal, and impact tracking
After year one · Free
$0 forever
Everything keeps working. Only Gardi usage gets a fair-use cap.
- Your full garden, history, and journal stay
- Daily tasks, logging, and harvest tracking
- Smart plug control and weather alerts
- Learn Hub and full encyclopedia
- Ask Gardi and Plant Doctor on a monthly limit
No paywall on your garden. The only thing the free tier limits is how often you use Gardi each month. Want unlimited Gardi again? Upgrade any time. Don't want to? Keep growing with everything else, at no cost.
The full circle
It's not automation. It's connection.
Hardware, monitoring, and intelligence joined into one mechanism, a whole greater than its parts that changes how home growing has been done until now.
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We connect you to the system that fits.
Wally for a wall, Homie for a balcony, Tobato for a patio. The intelligence layer is the same in all three, so the system fits your space and your life, not the other way around.
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The smart plug connects you to the beating heart.
It controls your irrigation cycles and watches the pump around the clock. A failure that used to cost three weeks of roots now becomes a notification you can act on.
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Gardi connects you to what to do now.
It turns expert agronomy into a calm, specific next step, built on real research and your real garden. No forums, no contradictory search results, no guessing.
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And we're the layer that ties it together.
Fourteen years of growing knowledge, woven through every part of the system and handed to you the day it arrives. Here the moment you need us.
Your system is the hardware. Vegardi is the intelligence.
Choose a NatureTech system and unlock a growing experience unlike any before it, with the performance and harvest to match. We don't build automation to replace the gardener. We build the intelligence that leads you to a precise understanding of nature, and of exactly what to do and when. Synergy between people and nature is the goal.