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Lets get making our streets and estates into urban orchard for everyone to have free fresh food!

Graftimg success!

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Its round about this time of year you take the grafting tape off your apple trees.  I love this bit and can't believe how well they are looking. I've only been grafting apple trees for the past couple of years and I'm getting better each time. Learn by doing has always been my motto.  200 heritage Irish apple trees I grafted and only 2 didnt make it. Not bad results at all. Think that makes it a 99% success rate! Many people asking if I'm selling these. Sorry guys these ones are not for sale. I will be phantom planting these apple trees personally as my contribution to nature and community. I get way more joy out of watching my environmental graffiti thrive in the wild than making money from it anyway. Soul richness cant be bought.  We all need to give back to nature as individuals and I'm leading by example on this one. There is enough money and successful people in the world. We badly need more fruit forests and phantom planters.  This method of grafting old Irish...
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Be the change

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Im not out to change the world. I'm out to change my world. 200 heritage Irish apple trees just sitting waiting to get phantom planted in a street near you this winter.  My offering to community and nature.  We all need to give back.  Spent way too much on self gratification which nearly ended in my own eradication  Time to give back what we've all taken or our future generations will be left forsaken  I challenge you to phantom plant a tree  Peace and love The Phantom Plante r and Wee Betty
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The phantom experience!

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 A couple of years ago I brought these long time supporters out to phantom plant an apple tree in memory of their past loved ones. They got the mask, the T-shirt and the whole phantom experience! The apple tree is thriving in the hood and is very well respected by the neighbours.  This was a Bramley apple tree we phantom planted. Bramley is a tree that will thrive in our environment here and never fails to give out bumper crops.  I have heard before that people were experimenting growing Bramley apple trees as firewood as it grows that fast. Bramley apples are a cooking apple and stores for many months after picking making it a perfect food security crop for housing estates.  If you stew cooking apples and then freeze them you can add to your porridge all year round. Or make apple pies.  People always say to me can I not plant plums or pears. I will specialise in apples. This will be my offering to the community and nature. Who ever has asked me this in the past...
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Dont let your own mind limit you

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 Never underestimate your own manifesting power. Change your thoughts, change your world. The first verse in The Dhammapada from the Buddha which would probably be like the Buddhist Bible is,  "We are what we think, all that we are arises from our thoughts, with our thoughts we make our world".  I always think back to when we were younger and the group of friends I had. One of my mates headed the ball most days, he became one of the best around and could keep it up for hundreds if not thousands.  My other mate, he chased women daily and got more women than any man I know.  And my other good mate, he run around with chicken breasts and protein shakes in his bag and pumped iron every day in the gym, he ended up like the hulk.  Me, I run around selling everything from mobile pound shops to candyfloss and all my delboy dads dodgy goods All I thought of was getting rich, and rich I got! All of us got exactly what we channelled our thoughts and energy into. ...
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Best mattresses about!

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 For a peaceful and meditative nights sleep check out Www.buddhabeds.co.uk  Delivering high end luxury mattresses all over Northern Ireland.  A tree gets planted with every order. In fact about 20 trees will be planted with every order at least! Its all I want to be doing these days is plant urban orchards and forests. There's not much of the monopoly boards toys and tinsel that tickles me anymore like it used too. Society is becoming more and more toxic by the day. More experts but more problems. More degrees but less sense. I think we should all start by replacing the great forests we have destroyed. The world is heating up they say. People going on about climate change yet no one is planting trees?  Its the antidote to it all. Go stand under a mature tree on a boiling hot day and feel the natural air conditioning.  I may not save the world but at least my life will have been part of the antidote.  Way too many making noises and not enough doing.  Sa...
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Love this!

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 Love getting messages like this saying thank you phantom planter as this lady and her kid visit the phantom planters HQ to pick some fruit. Belvoir Memorial Orchard guys, on google maps.  All are welcome to go down and help themselves.  If the apples come off in one click they're ready to eat. If they taste a bit tart why not stew them and add over porridge.  You can also stew apples and freeze them and add to porridge as and when you need.  So many things can be done with fresh apples.  From The Phantom Planter, enjoy!  I challenge you to phantom plant a tree  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter and Wee Betty
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Just keep on planting!

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 Thousands of fruit trees I've phantom planted for the community and nature to enjoy. 11 years now I've been running around planting and chanting. Yesterday I brought my mate down to The Phantom Planters HQ for the first time and he couldn't believe it. Over 400 fruit trees here full of all sorts of apples, pears, plums and berries. Everyone is welcome to go down and help themselves.  Looking forward to the coming years when our Lisnabreeny Community Orchard gets going. We have only just started to plant this orchard up in the past couple of years. 600 heritage Irish apple trees here, again all for the community and nature to enjoy.  Scattered all over Belfast and beyond is thousands more phantom planted fruit trees.  I was telling my mate yesterday how it all really started for me. About 11 years ago I planted a couple of fruit trees just outside where I grew up, I just did it for a laugh. The trees thrived and grew like champions over the next few years!  Watc...
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