container gardening

WIU/Allison Organic Research Farm in Roseville, IL

We mostly investigate management strategies for highly mechanized “organic” row crop systems that produce low-value grains for sale by the semi-load to grain merchants

but we are also starting to explore higher value crops

We are dabbling in a few other purple and gold crops!

“pepperonis” are slices of purple

fleshed sweet potato

Distributing transplants during the Heritage Day parade

Container gardening at WIU and housing projects

Container gardening at Lincoln elementary school

Growing Power garden in Chicago

The beginning – June 2009

Different mixtures of sand and compost(I now use straight compost)

Watermelon root system exhumed from a pool

Unhappy carrots after a hard frost

These carrots recovered after being ravaged by groundhogs!

Spring 2010

Fitch Manor housing project

Just 2.5

weeks

later

Eisenhower Towers housing project

Back at my house

Our cat was

curious about the

pools but never

used them as a

litter box

I have had success with many sizes and shapes of containers.

Feel free to contact me with questions:

j-gruver@wiu.edu