The Phantom Planter

 Apples, pears, plums and berries. The fruits of our labour starting already at The Phantom Planters HQ aka Belvoir Memorial Orchard. You'll find this place on google maps and everyone is welcome to go down for a walk around and help themselves to some free fruit when they ripen up a bit more in the months ahead. Its a great way to give back by phantom planting fruit trees for the community and nature to enjoy. Everytime I walk down there this time of year it really inspires me to keep on planting and chanting. The way of our world is built upon destruction. All the toys and tinsel we chase is at mother natures expense. Ultimately living in this parasitic way is creating a negative karmic burden for us. I wasn't happy at all when I had stashes of cash everywhere, surrounded by toxic energies thats only there for their own selfish gains. When the money ran out everyone disappeared!!! My head was messed up big time worrying and stressing about it all. I had to blind myself with s...

 In some of my previous posts were planting memorial trees and adding the loved ones ashes in with the tree some have commented with confidence saying that human ashes will kill the tree.  This is a proven fact many say on YouTube also.   Both these trees have a large amount of human ashes in with the tree and they are thriving.  I have planted many many trees with human ashes and all are still alive and healthy today.  You never know who to believe these days, but I'm telling you guys from doing.  The tree with the flowers on it had all of my big pals dads ashes in with it. Must have been a kilo of ashes that went in there!  When people started to say it'll kill the tree I must admit I worried a bit. But just look at this tree! To be honest it's probably the healthiest and strongest at our new orchard. Get out and learn by doing yourself guys. Not all the experts are right.

 My oak tree collection is thriving, got them all repotted last month with fresh compost and give them a good weeding and tidy up. They are all looking amazing. All these oak trees are grown from acorns collected from these famous parent oak trees below. Bowthorpe Oak Brian Boru Oak Blenheim Oak numbered 4012 C.1090 Knighthood Oak Major Oak aka Robin Hood Oak Remedy Oak Old Knobbly Oak Parliament Oak Big Belly Oak Clachan Oak Brimmon Oak Capon Oak Ketts Oak King Oak Blenheim Belvoir Oak I still have many more to collect from in the years ahead. All these trees are going to be planted up one day in a ring making an oak grove museum, preserving the genetics of our ancient oaks from all over the UK and Ireland all in the one place. I'm going to make up a plaque at each tree telling the stories attached with the parent trees. Like Robin Hood hid inside the Major oak of Sherwood forest. Or Robert Ketts ordered a rebellion from under this oak tree and the Clachan oak, it is said William ...

 I challenge you all to phantom plant a tree. It's what we all need to do for nature and our own sanity.  I never like to talk about news related stuff on my page as I think news is a deliberate attempt to divide and cause trouble.  The news kept the troubles going in Northern Ireland for too long. It taught us how to hate. Every bit of anger and frustration that I would have heard growing up came from the media.  My dad was a Loyalist and when he started venting anger at his opposition I used to say to him, where has this anger come from? It was always after reading the newspaper or watching the news that he started to give off about the shinners, calling them all sorts of names.   Maybe give the news a miss and you might feel better I would say to him.  He looked at me like I had 2 heads.  But the latest level of lunacy I've been hearing is the government are investing money into blocking out the sun and the same government are giving grants for...

 Wee betty is 10 now and I have been noticing on my weekly mountain walks that she really starts to struggle after about 30 mins or so into our uphill walks. So I bought this bag for carrying dogs in and she was more than happy to get in it. She just sat there for the rest of the uphill walk as content as can be. It was this wee dog that brought me to the mountains about 10 years ago, It was her energy and excitement that kept me going back all the time getting me fit. When we think we are rescuing a dog, for me it was the other way about. She rescued me! I'm indebted to wee betty. She'll come everywhere with me for the rest of her life. She got me fit all them years ago when I was a mess, now she'll be getting me superfit carrying her on my back. Wee Betty - My best mate, companion and personal trainer! Have a great day guys.  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter and wee betty!

 Walking around the new Lisnabreeny community orchard last night counting all the dead trees and there are about 30 or so definite ones that are dead. We have around 300 native Irish apple trees here so thats about 10% that didn't make it, which is not a bad success rate. What I have noticed is it was nothing to do with the ground that killed the trees, like too wet or too dry as the rootstocks we have them grafted onto are still alive. Its just the graft thats died. I think some of the trees just didnt like the conditions, from being in a nice cosy tropical polytunnel the year before, then being put up on a very windy exposed site. They looked like they were going to start to leaf and then stopped and died. They must have woke up out of dormancy and said whats going on here, this is not where we were last year. I think whats best to do with new apple trees is propagate for the first year in the polytunnel, then plant them out in bunches in a not so exposed site to harden them off ...