Sort of like a head transplant!

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 Look how the sap bonds the graft together. Such an amazing thing to watch is how grafting works. It's like doing a head transplant, adding an old apple tree variety onto a new young healthy body.


We took one thousand apple tree grafts just over a month a go and we have about a 99% success rate. Not bad at all, you'd think we knew what we were doing.


All of them are so healthy and vibrant, we have definitely got better from last year. This is my second year of grafting and I'm really pleased with how its been going.


Last year we took over 300 grafts with most of them planted up at our new Lisnabreeny Community Orchard. Its so rewarding watching them grow, knowing that we went out and selected the cuttings ourselves from old orchards, grafted them up and cared for them for a year in the polytunnel, then to plant them out in the orchard and watch them flower this year for the first time is just the best feeling. 


Enrich your soul today guys and do your bit for nature and community. 

Go phantom plant a fruit tree today. I challenge you!!


10 years ago I knew nothing about trees, I thought an acorn was called an eggcorn and was a pine cone because it's sort of the shape of an egg. Couldn't even have told you what an oak leaf looked like!!

All I did was plant an apple tree the right way up in my street to see what happened. I just had this thought that fruit trees sould be all over our streets and estates. 

10 years later after this one tree teaching me so much I can hold conversation with tree and nature experts. 

I've come along way from drink, drugs and dodgy wheeling and dealing. 


In a much better place though there days. Surrounded with genuine love and friendship. That underworld life, people are looking to take you down any chance they can get. And take me down many did. Now my love and compassion is branching out like a tree. 


Great to have the mental and physical capacity to offer. Being wrapped up in the darker vibrations of the world that's not possible. 


Have a great day guys. 


Peace and love 


The Phantom Planter




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