The Phantom Planter

 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...

 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. ...

 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...

 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

 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...

 So glad to see a bit of rain guys.  I've been observing lots of my 1 year old bareroot heritage Irish apple trees that I phantom planted in winter past. I phantom planted around 400 on unused green spaces about Belfast. I havent watered any of them.   The majority of them I gave a good thick layer of mulch around them and some I didnt. The ones I mulched are looking so much more healthier and less stressed compared to the ones I didnt mulch.  The ones I didint mulch you can see over half the lowers leaves have truned yellow and are about to drop. Apparently the tree does this and sucks the moisture from some of its leaves to help keep the other ones going. Amazing! Saying that though, the ones I haven't mulched are surviving and the tips of the trees are still fairly healthy.  Me personally I will never plant larger potted trees again. I have still been watering 2/3 year old potted trees.  The smaller and younger you plant your trees the better. They ...