The Phantom Planter

 Heading out on a phantom planting mission here today planting 6 memorial apple trees with some of these people very good friends of mine. I've been eyeing up a few nice green spaces in the estate that could do with a mini orchard on them. I've specifically picked these 2 varieties as they are the most hardy about and grow like champions. I've yet to see these varieties get diseased or look sick in any way. They are also very heavy croppers bringing the community an abundance of apples every year for the next 100 years to come! This is how your bareroot trees will come guys when buying them, (see pics) what I do is leave the roots soaking in water for a few hours before planting. These ones I buy are amazing, 2 year old they are and a good size too. As stipulated in The Phantom Planters Manifesto, our aim and mission is to fill up all green spaces in our local estate with fruit trees. We already have around 700 and there's no stopping us yet! We dont ask permission, we ...

 Loving life in my new cabin!! The start of the cold weather is here and this new cabin is toasty. Honestly, when living the way I was for the past 7 years or so in the old rotted cabin I'm feeling like I'm in the Hilton here. My penance is served. My health has never felt better either sleeping in this new cabin, no damp or mould and having a kitchen with a kitchen table also in the dry heat is just bliss. My diet has never been better too.  Also like bringing friends round to cook food which is something I haven't been able to do for the past 7 years also. Many years ago when I was striving to be the ace in the rat race I got myself caught up with so many balls, chains and conformities. After experiencing this fast paced life and then being disqualified from the monopoly board by the way of bankruptcy, ( which was a blessing in disguise, though at the time my ego was that badly hurt I wanted to kill myself)  I've come to realise that its not money, land or houses, ...

 Me and my big druid mate worked away in the Lisnabreeny community orchard yesterday. We setup a new storage unit and got a tonne bag of quarry dust delivered to fill in all the holes in the field where we are expanding the orchard into. It was good to do this now its coming into the winter when all the grass has died back as it made it easier to see the holes. There was one big track dug out the length of the field which was a health and safety nightmare for anyone coming to visit they're memorial trees. The man hours that have went into getting this field ready for planting has been unreal. I think we are nearly done now though. Now time to get planting and chanting! We have even went over the field with a metal detector to make sure we got all the nails that were left from the rotted pallets. The amount we pulled out was unreal. This field and the oak spiral next to it is sacred ground to me. I walk this so much barefoot in the better weather chanting "Om Mani Padme Hum.......

 Hope thats the last of the heavy rain for a bit for the ground to dry out so we can get some planting done. Was away walking round our orchards yesterday and the place is swamped. Really not the type of ground to be planting trees. I've just over 400 apple trees, 15 very special oak trees and an Irish yew tree to plant. I'm very eager to get going. I was inspecting lots of apple trees we planted years ago that had canker on it which is a disease that will spread and kill your trees. One of my followers on here suggested a few years ago to spread some bitumen paint on the canker as she said she has seen this kill it on her own orchards. We did this on about 5 apple trees that had canker on it and the bitumen paint has completely healed all the apple trees. Amazing!! I couldn't believe it. Some people have said before that canker is uncurable. This is not the case here. I love all this knowledge I'm learning from planting and chanting, connecting and observing. "May...

 Always makes me laugh the amount of attention my semen retention posts get. I'm glad I put them out though as I have had a few deep personal messages from men saying thank you as my posts have really helped them. Its 10 days today that I have been on semen retention after my breakup and over these 10 days I have been meditating for 15 mins twice a day. I have not given into any desire at all. For me when we are gong through a hard time giving into any type of desire is like letting a demon trojan horse into the mind. Slowly it lets in more and more self gratifications and we carry on with this state of mind going from pleasure to shame and pain. Like when I think back when I was a drinker, you went out for a few pints with the intention of just a few then home. A few turns into 10, then the cocaine comes out and your partying all night. You then wake up the next day and have a few more drinks just to take the edge of things, order crap food and lie around feeling sorry for yoursel...

 It will be 6 years ago this month I started The Phantom Planter and it will be 7 years this month also that I gave up alcohol. Just shows one year away from the drink and look what was created. No way would I have ever have started The Phantom Planter if I was still on the drink. It was also the day I setup The Phantom Planter that I gave up smoking weed too after probably 20 years of smoking daily. I knew the weed would have made me second guess so many things that I was wanting to write on here. I had stuff in my head I wanted to express and as many of you know the weed can make you a bit bipolar at times. I know what would have happened, I would got up in the morning, do my ritual then write a deep spiritual post, then later that day smoked some weed and read back on the post thinking what type of weirdo was I. What was I thinking! Weed does these weird f**ked up things to the mind. Before I setup The Phantom Planter I had never written anything in my life. I never had the conf...