The Phantom Planter

 Hardly slept a wink last night thinking about all them fruit trees that got cut down. I've had some serious things happen to me in the past and I've always been able to get a nights sleep but this barbaric attack on our second biggest community orchard has really got me down.  The memories that have been created here over the years from planting loved ones memorial trees to taking large groups of school kids out with masks phantom planting. So many people had so many good memories planting here.  Now all the 100s of community fruit trees are gone. This has to be a criminal offence of some sort.  Honestly guys, these orchards are my life. Years and years of work has went into these. The money spent and the time and effort carrying water, mulching, pruning and so much more maintenance, all this has really saddened me big time.  Nearly every walk I go on also involves walking around these orchards always making sure they are ok.  Much of this orchard was my h...

 I have so many spots like this that I'm going to fill up with heritage apple trees.. These ones here were planted winter past and all I've did is mulch and stamp down all the surrounding weeds and grass once this year to give them more light. A good load of mulch seems to have really done the job too. You can see the grass is starting to die back a bit coming to the end of the summer. Can safely say these apple trees are well established.  I phantom planted 9 apple trees here and have 9 surviving trees.  Its all biomass for the earth also when we plant trees. We all need to be planting something into the earth to help create more biomass. When you look around what us humans the most invasive species to ever have lived here are doing to the planet its going to hit a brick wall one day. It already has in parts of the world. India is heading for a dust bowl soon. They say India has not long left for farming if it doesnt change how it does things.  We keep taking away a...

 Seen a man walking through the estate the other day eating an apple and I asked him where did you get that from? He said the apple tree up street, I have been picking one every day now for the past while he said and eating it on his walks.  I had phantom planted the apple tree many years ago and still today the positive vibration of it is still carrying on. Honestly made my day seeing him just causally walking down eating his apple.  Good deeds and acts of generosity elevates your state of mind is what the Buddhas tell us. The more good Karma we put out the more will come back to us. So simple but so true.  We are blinded by are own greed, pride and hate which the Buddhas also say that these 3 states of mind is what keeps us trapped in our own mental suffering. They are the three poisons at the centre of the Bhavachakra / The Wheel of Life.  Greed, pride and hate is rife on here. 99% of peoples vibrations on here is venting these poisonous states of mind spread...

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...

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

 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...