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

Priceless memories!

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 48 Heritage Irish apple trees phantom planted yesterday creating another new orchard in the estate! Had some real good helpers and new recruits for this one. These kids that came to help out were pretty special. Love watching kids when they take an interest getting stuck in planting trees. Cant thank the parents enough either as they practically dug all 48 holes. The family was a massive help. I couldn't have got them all in without you. Thank you! Phantom planting this new plot is a bit of a gamble. I dont normally phantom plant trees that are so small like this on council property as there is more chance of them getting run over by dogs and whatever else. Planting trees smaller though is much better for the growth of the tree as it grows into a bigger stronger tree much better than potted trees. As I was saying yesterday if all these trees didnt make it for some reason it was all still worth it as I met some of the nicest people around. There is good people in this world and pha...
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New orchard getting phantom planted today!

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 Heading out here today to phantom plant a community orchard on a large field in the estate. I have a new method of planting I'm going to experiment with. It will be more like a wild fruit forest rather than a maintained orchard. I've around 50 mixed heritage apple trees to plant and I'm going to plant them all quite close in a circular island shape in the field. I will then get a mower and cut the grass around the edge of the island of trees to encourage the council mowers to just keep cutting around it. It will be all left for the grass to grow wild in and around the trees. You see woodland trust do these types of plantations with other native trees, but I have never seen one with native fruit trees. I love it when apple trees are left to go wild with fruit, just falling and being left. It creates such a biodiversity hotspot. I have seen more life around wild fruit trees than most other types of tree. All my apple trees are grafted onto mm106 rootstock which means they wi...
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Appeal for volunteers

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 Good morning guys Making an appeal here to see if I can recruit any dedicated volunteers to help plant and look after the fruit trees around Belvoir Estate South Belfast. Drop me a message  Phantomplanter1@gmail.com Have 352 apple trees left to plant and need to get them in the ground asap. Have other missions I need to move onto here soon. Thats what I love about tree planting and working with nature. Its seasonal and connecting. The soul is running alongside the magic of creation. The way its meant to be. This is pic of another 50 heritage Irish apple trees thats just been dug out of our nursery. 10 I'm donating to the Comber community gardens. And the rest I keep in the van with me and plant an chant as I'm out about selling my high end luxury mattresses. Dont forget too guys, anyone needing a mattress delivered today or tomorrow Belfast and Surrounding areas drop me a message. In most cases I'll have mattress at your door quicker than your local Chinese! Have all sizes...
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Hope you had a good Christmas

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 Hope you all had a good Christmas guys. 21 heritage Irish apple trees we phantom planted yesterday. Me and my right hand man have been planting trees every Christmas day now for the past many years. We even had another helper who joined us too. The young lad was out on his new bike and I asked him did he want to plant a tree. He was well up for it! He now has his own apple tree at our orchard to visit anytime. Great Christmas day memory with a difference it will be for this young lad. Thats 66 apple trees I've phantom planted in the past few weeks with another 352 to go!  All will be getting phantom planted about the country. It gives me more pleasure going back in years to come tracking down all my trees than it would be to sell these. I have watched my mate sell his half of the trees and turn into thousands and dont get me wrong, it did cross my mind to sell mine. But no, thats just when greed sets in. I make enough money from my wee mattress business. This has always put t...
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Christmas day phantom planting!

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 Just finished phantom planting 21 heritage Irish apple trees to celebrate the birth of Christ   If we all tried living like JC the world would be a much better place.  Had a young helper with me. This young lad was out on his new bike for Christmas and I asked if he wanted to plant an apple tree. He was well up for it! And lucky we had a spur set of welly boots and gloves.  He now has his own phantom planted apple tree to visit for the rest of his life!  I challenge you to phantom plant a tree  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter
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Merry Christmas everyone!

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 Merry Christmas everyone from The Phantom Planter and Wee Betty! We are heading out here today to phantom plant 21 heritage Irish apple trees. Every Christmas for the past many years now me and my right hand man have met up to plant trees on Christmas day. Yesterday I planted 13 apple trees as Christmas presents. I have sent my friends and family a pic and location of their tree gift so they can go and visit it one day. This is a Christmas gift that will keep on giving for a 100 years to come. Guys if you would like to send me and wee betty and Christmas gift feel free on the link below.  https://paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=FAJZHB3TBXMSL The money will come in very handy. For the past many months I have been putting so much more time and effort than normal into my tree phantom planting missions. I have been trying to put trust in things that my wee business will make enough to cover it all. But coming up to Christmas I think buying a mattress is the last thing on peop...
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Mission complete!

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 Got my juniper cuttings yesterday. Junipers are one of the rarest plants/trees in Northern Ireland. This small batch you see is one of a few thats left in this whole mountain range here.  How they have survived is a miracle with all the grazing animals. Apparently the genetics of these junipers are unique to these mountain ranges. For years I looked for these. I have never seen junipers anywhere else in Northern Ireland apart from here and many years ago I was on some mission searching high and low looking everywhere for them. Its great to see this little batch doing so well and its nice to know that if anything happens to these that I've got the genetics and linage going here, ready to be replanted anytime! Many years ago I took cuttings from this same batch, grew them up and replanted in another part of the mountain. They were growing so well for a year or so then they put cattle on the mountain and they were destroyed. It baffled me a bit at the time as when they put the c...
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