Sounds like you’re proving that dirt still beats pixels in the soil‑battle. A rooftop garden gets the real variables—light, rain, human touch—while a simulation is great for tweaking parameters but can’t replicate a rainstorm’s pressure or a neighbor’s gossip about pests. Your balcony plot is probably teaching you that the best tech is one that works with nature, not overthinks it. Keep mixing soil with software, and maybe the digital tools can learn to ask for rain instead of just simulating it.