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

Help yourself to an apple

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 Its only this year that I've really got to taste so many of the heritage Irish apples. Had a Mrs Perry the other day on my walk and what an apple this was. It like fizzes in your mouth. I also had a Blood of the Boyne which is so sweet with a red tinge to the flesh on the inside.  My favourite so far has been the Cavan Sugarcane. What a beauty. A massive apple that you would think would be a cooker, but this apple is as sweet as you'll get, hence the name.  I have around 100 Cavan Sugarcane apple trees ready for phantom planting this winter. I am also planning on grafting 100s more this season. There are still loads of apples down at The Belvoir Memorial Orchard aka The Phantom Planters HQ, next to the Boys Brigade football pitches South Belfast.   Hundreds of massive phantom planted apple trees here laden with fruit. Everyone is welcome to go down and help themselves. If the apple comes off in one small click its ready to eat. If it taste tart like a cooker ta...
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My weekends work

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 Me and wee betty had a busy weekend with the trees. Had some grass cutting to do down round the estate keeping the Hood looking like a nature loving Buddhahood. Also did my weekly cut of  The Phantom Planters Oak Spiral which is looking amazing btw.  The portal to the Tuatha De Danann will be open one day!  Maybe in about 12 years time when all my baby iconic oak saplings produce flowers and cross pollinate. Thats the plan anyhow. Playing about with a bit of Druid wizardry here guys. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.  Also planted a potted pine tree I think it is that was out the back of my old mate Billies back garden. This tree had been out his back for as long as I can remember and in billies last years he was unable to water it. He always asked me to water it and I always told him that after he passes I will take it somewhere and plant it.  So we planted it down the bottom of our Lisnabreeny Community Orchard yesterday.  Someone...
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The Mrs Perry Apple Tree

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 This is a wild phantom planted Mrs Perry apple tree that we planted around 3 years ago. It was just planted in thick grass surrounded by brambles and check out the apples on this beauty! Mrs Perry was discovered on the coast of Donegal, so this tree is practically born to survive most harsh climates.  Mrs Perry grows very well from cuttings also and will grow into a massive tree that will never fail to produce apples in abundance.  I see so many people out these days picking the fruits of my labour. Grannies with bags walking around the estate seeing what apples are ripe. Other kids with their cartons picking raspberries. And I hear there was near a fight over the plums. A couple was seen walking away with 2 plastic bags full of plums and a guy challenged them saying your taking too many, give me some of them back he said.  This made me laugh.  It was unfair though that the couple stripped a couple of plum trees bare at our main orchard.   But it also...
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Phantom planted pear tree

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 This phantom planted pear tree is doing really well at our Belvoir Memorial Orchard.  Planted around 4 years ago its one of the healthiest pear trees lve planted. Many pear varieties don't do well here but this one is shining!  Fruit trees have to be the best trees to plant. Beautiful flowers in spring and edible fruits come late summer and autumn. Great for the birds and the bees and great for us too.  We all should be given the option to pick fresh fruit from our land for at least 6 months of the year. From early spring berry varieties right up to medlars in December. Also there are so many apple varieties that can store until January.  Get phantom planting fruit trees guys.  Better off having it and not needing it than needing it and not having it.  I challenge you to phantom plant a tree  Peace and love  The Phantom Planter and wee betty
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Buddha Beds!

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 Dont forget guys my website prices include delivery anywhere on the Emerald Isle. If in Northern Ireland chances are it will be me and Wee Betty delivering. For over the border we use a courier service thats normally next day delivery in the Dublin area.  This mattress I'm on is The HoneyB Balmoral. One of my best sellers for many years now. Gel infused 13" pocket sprung pillowtop that doesn't cost a fortune. Pic taken a couple of years ago when I was just back from holidays.  For the past 12 years now I have always prided myself on selling high end luxury at very affordable prices. So many furniture shops I've had over the years and so many rubbish brands I've sold thats just been a headache for me in the long run.  I dont want people coming back to me with problems.  I want them coming back with more orders.  And thats what I get with my mattress selection these days is people coming back 6/7 years later ordering the same mattress!  I just want an e...
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Great communal day

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 Yesterday I took a group of people around the estate picking apples and to show them many of our other phantom planted trees we have. With the hot summer we had so many of the apple trees are ripening early. Many people went away with bags of apples and we were non stop eating apples the whole day straight of the trees.  Then I get a nice message from a lady who seen me out tending to her apple tree that we phantom planted a few years ago in memory of her dad saying thank you for the apple tree, the love, connection and memories your apple tree has given us will go on for generations.  I have always said her apple tree is one of the best in the estate. Its the one in the pic with the wooden surround and me bent over. I notice that the trees that get shown the most love and attention grow better than others.  The more light you shine, the more shadows you cast.  From the massacre of one of our biggest community orchards I've had a lot more critics on my page. I ...
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Plant something mighty!

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 Ancient oak saplings just behind this gate. Pay whatever way you want.  Collect anytime and please close gate behind you.  Next too  47 Lisnabreeny Road East BT6 9SS Fill your boots and get planting something mighty.
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