Playndirt Crop Swap & Garden improvements

Hello all, Here at Playndirt Crop Swap & Garden we're making some improvements with how we keep in touch with you, our wonderful community and supporters. We post about our crop swap and garden activities on multiple social media platforms. We will no longer post on this Google blog(dardangardens.blogspot.com) and our Playndirt Facebook page(http://www.facebook.com/pages/Playndirt /473485742770410). We will ONLY post on Instagram (@plantgrowshare), Twitter(@plyndrt) and Facebook(Darnell Stewart) and playndirt.com@gmail.com . So we encourage you to keep up to date with our activities by connecting with us via one of the above mentioned social media platforms. 

Stay tuned for another great announcement!

Working at our new "Plant Grow Share" garden - by Dana

So this afternoon Darnell and I went to work in our garden (Plant Grow Share).  Our nephew Micah joined us and helped out.  So our plan is to turn our area into a workable edible garden. So here are some pictures.

White Strawberry Plant by Dana

So we purchased an addition to the strawberry family White Strawberry plant.  The strawberries are very tiny and they have a sweet creamy taste.

Plant Grow share by Dana

Plant Grow Share is the name of our garden space that Self-sustaining communities is allowing us to use.  Here are some pictures of the are and some ideas of what we would like to do with the space.

1. & 2. Outside/Inside of a future green/hot house. 

3. Garden area 

4. Location of our future raised bed

Self-sustaining Communities by Dana

We are working in collaboration with Self-sustaining communities a local 501c3 nonprofit organization 

Self-sustaining communities.org . Your one time donations of $75 or larger are tax deductible, we can provide a receipt at your request for your records. 

For details about what Playndirt is up to,  Click on or cut and paste the following link: www.gofundme.com/sk5wsk 

Thank you

Self-sustaining communities City Farm

A big thank you to Self-sustaining communities organization for allowing us to garden at the "city farm". This will be a great opportunity for us to practice some farming and permaculture skills. http://www.self-sustainingcommunities.org/city-farm.html

DarDan gardens

Fresh squeezed Meyer lemon juice. I will use it to make lemonade and the rest I will freeze for later. I just picked up a Purple Tomatillo and a Pink Lemonade Blueberry plant.

Scions for my container garden

Just received some scions from a fellow gardener's garden. Dami Fig, Farralones Pear, Satsuma Tangerine,  Shamouti Blood Orange,  Mexicola & Hass Avacado,  Montmorancy Cherry. Ashmead, Fireside, Hudson,  Macoun, Ribston and Wickson Apples.

Grafting my potted fruit trees

It's been a year since I learned how to graft at Merritt college. Grafting is very easy, anyone can do it, even you!! I grafted Golden delicious & Moraga antique scions onto one (1) rootstock. This week I visited some fellow gardeners and they allowed me to cut scions from their fruit trees. Thursday I grafted the scions, and if scions attach properly I will have Cripps pink & Pink pearl Apple on one tree, Black mission & Brown turkey Fig on one tree and Hachiya & Fire Crystal Persimmon. Since my space is limited,  grafting allows me to add more varieties of fruits to my container garden.

Garden Additions by Dana

So we went to Annie's Nursery today and purchased additions to the edible garden.

Vincent Male and Female Kiwi

Chilean Guava

White Strawberries

Hachiya Persimmon

Crescent Park Gardening by Dana

Playndirt was proud to donate plants to the new community garden in Crescent Park, Richmond California.

Raised Garden Beds

California native Alpine strawberries (white and red varieties), Pansies (edible flowers), Snapdragons, Pepino Dulce, Miner's lettuce and Cape gooseberry.

Rosemary by Dana

So my Rosemary has finally produced purple flowers. Which purple of course is my favorite color.

#playndirt, #cropswap, #huntingtonpark

Paste Tomatoes by Dana

So Darnell and I did an experiment with our tomatoes.  We left one plant in the ground and took out the rest because the season for tomatoes was over, however the plant we left in the ground stated growing again and producing flowers and here's the results.  It is Paste tomatoes used for making pasta sauce. 

#playndirt, #huntingtonpark, #cropswap.