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

Feeling inspired

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 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...
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The Major Oak is dead.

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 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...
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Best mattress on the market!

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 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
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200 apple trees for phantom planting

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 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....
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Still here planting and chanting

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 Many people sending me messages to see if I'm ok here in Belfast. Yes I'm all good in the Buddhahood guys, thanks for asking.  Me and Wee Betty are still out looking after the phantom planted trees. We went to check on these plum trees in the pic yesterday. We phantom planted these around 8 years ago and they are thriving. Full of plums this year! I was literally cutting grass around some phantom planted fruit trees the other night there and the sky behind me was filled with black smoke from a riot. As houses and cars were burning I still had to get on with keeping my part of the hood looking like a nature loving Buddhahood. The grass keeps growing and the trees still need looking after.  Please support my work guys.  https://paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=FAJZHB3TBXMSL I challenge you to phantom plant a tree  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter and Wee Betty
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Live spiritually

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 "Let The dead bury the dead"... JC said those caught up in worldly affairs are spiritually dead.  Leave them all to it and concentrate on your own spiritual path.  The Buddha left the Eightfold path which is a step by step guide on how to attain spiritual enlightenment.  Keep your karma right and you can dodge a lot of suffering in life. What ever suffering befalls on an individual is a result of his or her karma is what the Buddhas say.  Dont let the fear of what could happen make nothing happen. Progress spiritually today!  JC said we are all here through Sin. I believe this. The Buddha also said its our own karma has us here. Sin and Karma to me are the same thing.  Do we really think we are going to purify ourselves while being filled with hate and divisiveness?  This realm we live in is called the slaughter house in Buddhism. This is where karmic debts are settled. We will never be able to change this realm. Its just how it is, under the con...
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Plant something Mighty!

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  Have been pulling out and potting up lots of iconic baby oak trees that I sowed directly into the spiral a few months ago. I cant believe how many has grown. I really only need one of each oak at spiral so all these extras as you can see in the pics I have been potting them up and I'm going to sell them off.  These oaks have been grown from acorns collected by the Paramili-Trees SAS (special acorn service) division from the top 50 Great British famous trees. Then sent to me and propagated in The Phantom Planters magical spiral and now the extras have been potted up for you to have.  Some of the ones I potted up yesterday.  Darley oak. a 1000 year old tree in Cornwall Magog oak, well over 1000 years old in Glastonbury. This tree is probably the most iconic of them all with the myths and legends that surround them. There was old oaks 2 here, Gog and Magog. Gog is dead but I was very lucky to get acorns last year from Magog as its been in steady decline for many years...
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