Interesting thing this meter for the price! You might want to see if there is a local gardeners colony, a nice way on how to start without high initial upcosts - and eventually, it can pay the bill for rent if you will go with intensive growing system - using vertical gardening techniques you can get big yield on low acreage easily.

More to come about this here

Funny enough, just harvested our peppers today! :-)

Happy gardening and good luck!