The Phantom Planter

 Back in 2022 when I was over visiting The Major Oak of Sherwood forest I had noticed that the tree had been filled with concrete and the limbs were embalmed in a type of plastic. The limbs had supports also. The whole process seemed so unnatural.  I remember thinking can they not just let trees die in peace.  Oaks hallow in the centre for a reason, its part of its natural cycle to allow fungi and other life to come into it.  Fill it full of concrete and plastic and people are blaming climate change and people visiting compressing the ground around it on its sudden death.  More experts but more problems.  More degrees but less sense.  More knowledge but less judgment.  Words from Big D aka The Dalai Lama spring to mind on this one.  Anyhow guys, all of us need to be collecting acorns from our ancient oaks all over the country and grow them up for phantom planting. Its our duty to replace the forests we have ripped down over the centuries....

 Was so annoyed yesterday at finding 4 of my apple trees hit by council mowers. One has been completely ringbarked meaning it will be slowly be dying over the next few weeks. Some people say bark graft it or wrap bandages and other methods. Over the years I've tried so many things to save ringbarked trees and I haven't managed to save one. The tree however might grow back from the stump as they always normally do.  So disheartening though when this happens. Normally I never get that annoyed as I expect to take losses and can always replant the tree, but when you have 6 amazing fruit trees growing away and enjoyed by the community for years and 4 out of the 6 gets hit it really made me angry.  So I went and got some sewer pipe and cut it to put around the tree, I added a load of mulch also. Hopefully this will protect the tree better from careless mowers.  You would wonder though how many other trees are killed this way by careless mowers. Under Brehon Law, the true l...

 Yesterday I was working away in the estate looking after some phantom planted fruit trees and this young lad comes over to me and asks can he help me. I said yes no probs, so away he went running to get his welly boots. He then got stuck in pulling out all the weeds close to our trees.  At the end of it I said I can give you a fiver now for helping or I can put £10 in one hand and nothing in the other and you can pick a hand and chance your luck. He said yes I want to gamble. I was like are you sure now? You can take this fiver now and off you go or you can gamble for a tenner or nothing. He was adamant he wanted to pick a hand. Lucky for him he picked the right hand and off he went with the tenner! He was a great help and was well worth a tenner. He had also agreed he's going to look after trees in a certain part of the estate for me.  I love it when young kids from the estate come out of their own backs and want to help. I've had so many kids over the years come out li...

 Sherwood Forest 28th Oct 2022 at 5am.  Me and wee betty jumped the fence to see if the Major oak aka Robin Hood oak had produced any acorns. What a surprise we were in for as the ground was covered in them. I think this was the last year The Major oak produced acorns and today it has been confirmed dead.  Something magical happened to me that morning under the Major Oak Tree. I never forget the visions that came to my mind that morning.  3 of the pics are from back when I got the acorns and the other 2 are some of the oaks today.  I had so many of these Major oak tree saplings. I planted lots of them all around the border of our Lisnbreeny orchard and another one being part of my iconic Phantom Planters Oak Spiral.  I have oaks growing from other really old oaks that are on its last legs also.  The Magog oak in Glastonbury, The Big Belly oak in Wiltshire and The Belvoir oak of Belfast. All these trees may never produce acorns again and I have their ba...

 This is my honeyB galaxy mattress after 1 year sleeping in it.  Just doing a bed change here and I rotate my mattress everytime I change the bed clothes. So important to rotate pillowtop mattresses for longevity. After 1 year use this mattress is still like new.  This is by far the best mattress I've ever sold in over 20 years in the mattress business.  Have full stock of these ready to go. Delivery all  Over Northern Ireland. Special prices for Belfast customers.  Drop me message guys to order yours today.  Phantomplanter1@gmail.com  All profits support my mission in turning the hood into a nature loving Buddhahood. I challenge you to phantom plant a tree  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter and Wee Betty

 Check out my heritage apple trees! 200 grafts I did a few months ago and only 3 of them didnt make it. Not bad results at all.  Every year thats all I want to be doing from now on is grafting 200 Heritage Irish apple trees and phantom plant them at my leisure around Belfast.  I wont be taking on anymore major plantations like our Lisnabreeny Community Orchard or the oak spiral again. Trying to raise money for projects like this is a head melt.  600 apple trees I grew for the Lisnabreeny site, which would cost in and around £12K minimum if you were to buy these and I think I managed to raise about £2k of that. Most of this project has been funded and paid for by my own money and time. No way would I want to be depending on donations again. It really put me under pressure and took the fun out of it for me.  I also dont have the same desire or motivation to be posting on here all the time. I will however always be out planting and chanting, its just what I do....