Looking after the precious acorns

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 Me and wee betty worked away yesterday at our oak spiral adding some wind protection around the acorns we just recently sowed.

Some of the acorns I sowed inside the plastic tube to help with humidity, this will also act like a propagator. The rest of the acorns I sowed around the tube. Will be interesting to see which ones grow best. I've went a bit over the top with this but so many of these acorns are from the oldest oak trees on these islands. Some may never produce acorns again like the Major oak of Sherwood forest and the Old Knobbley oak. The Belvoir oak which is the oldest oak in Ireland is nearly dead also and I was so lucky to get just a few acorns from this beauty last year.

So you can maybe understand why I've went to this level of TLC for these precious acorns. At least I know I've tried my best.


Conscious people plant conscious trees is a comment that one of the top tree ladies of Ireland made to me a while back. Lets hope she's right!


It was Saint Patricks day yesterday and as I was working away on the oak spiral I was just thinking back to all my drunken antics in the past going mad and getting into all sorts of trouble. I've did some very stupid things on my drink and drug binges of the past

Some of the things I did if I had of got caught I could have ruined my life!


There was no place I would rather be though yesterday than working with the oak trees and giving back to nature. Its taken me a long time to realise joy and pleasure are two different things. Pleasure is passing and only on loan. Its like borrowing happiness from the future and the downers and suffering are just the natural cycle of too much self gratification. Planting forests and giving back to nature is for me creating joy for the future, Its soul enrichment. Merit making as the Buddhas say, good merit we can cash in on for the future.


Thats not to say I didn't have good times on the drink. Had lots of amazing times but drink and drugs do not react well with my type of addictive personality. I'm a bit extreme if you haven't already noticed and I will always be an addict. I've just found some healthier ways to channel my addictions. Planting trees is just one of them, my training is another. 

When I broke free from the drink and drug trap 7 years ago I threw myself into phantom planting and yoga/calisthenics and never looked back!


Yesterday I was in the gym and a fitness guy comes over to me and says thats a whole new level of training what your doing, I thought I was good at pullups until you came in he said.

I even hate talking like this but I get compliments like this all the time with my style of training. No way could I do this at the age of 45 if I was still on the drink and drugs. Also couldn't do it without the Buddhas teachings.


"We are what we think, all that we are arises from our thoughts, with our thoughts we make our world"... 

First verse of the Dhammapada from The Buddha.


Look after you - Look after nature - Look after your community. 

All interconnected and interdependent.


"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, now that the spirit in me has awakened, planting trees is my souls purification."


I challenge you all to some planting and chanting. 

Om mani padme hum....


Peace and love 


The Phantom Planter and Wee Betty





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