20+ YEARS OF GARDEN EXPERIENCE, STILL LEARNING. Sharing what we learned in 2023 garden.
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- Опубликовано: 3 ноя 2023
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I absolutely love and respect that your family is first. Before all of us here on social media. Money isn’t your motivation and your heart shines through. You’re a beautiful woman and I am so happy to have found your channel. It’s by far the best homestead channel I’ve watched. ❤
100% agree & I love that Ruth Ann loves our Lord an Savior, Jesus!
I 100% agree too !
Amen to that!
Absolutely agree ❤
Agreed 💯👍
That turkey hen walking down the garden isle like a mom out shopping in a grocery store with her little brood. 😄
Yes!!!
I loved that !
Then them going in and out under her wings ❤
God is so clever in his creation ❤❤❤
I absolutely love your videos, RuthAnne! I think you and I would be great friends with so many similar interests. I'm happy to have found your videos!
I love the turkeys at the end! What breed do you raise? Do you house them with your chickens without any problems?
I can’t wait for Saturdays and a new video from the Zimmermans! It’s a joy to watch your children work alongside you and play so happily with each other.
And I learn so much! Thank you, for sharing!
Love the picture of the turkey with the babies under the wings ❤ Ps. 91:4 “Under His wings we take refuge…”
What a blessing for your family to have all of the fresh homegrown fruits and vegetables that you raise. Your channel is one of my favorites!
This video is such a blessing to me. It’s so easy to worry too much about micromanaging our gardens, forgetting that God provides. Do our best, learn from mistakes and move on. I love your content!
Thank you for this video! My favorite part is your turkey in watchful mode with all her chicks under her… and when she stretches up to see better and I saw all those little legs under her feathers… I just laughed and loved her even more! ❤
I love that too
@@Ruthannzimm how do you use peroxide for blight?
Rejuvenate the older Cherry tree by cutting it back drastically to a level that can easily be covered by a frost cloth in spring. You can also graft a different cherry tree to its root stock as well.
I’ve wondered about that too!!! Thank you!!!!
Oh my gosh you are just the loveliest woman with such a pure heart to I share your traditions with strangers. I was raised by depression era parents that are now departed and your videos bring me comfort for the old ways they passed on to me. I started canning two garden years ago and I get to use my mamas things and her books, what a blessing right? So I old school/rebel can as some would say. Please keep your videos coming. They are just a joy to me! God Bless from Eastern Oregon 💕
Becky
Thank you for sharing both fails and successes. The honesty is quite encouraging ❤Also happy to see all the Turkey babies!
❤😊 i am in western New York and we picked tomatoes this week, God is good, we are blessed
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Love your videos. I always learn something new. If your dogs can't be in the garden, you can always brush their fur and spread it around the garden.❤
Your homestead is so beautiful
I enjoy watching your videos
Thank you for sharing your experiences with us! It’s very cool to see how God provided even with less rain. He is faithful!! You are a true blessing and gifted teacher. God bless!!😊
Enjoyed this . I am 65 years old and always been in and around gardening . we have been married for 42 years and it is always a learning in progress. I love gardening and canning it gives me such great satisfaction. God bless you and your family
Love the shot of the momma turkey holding her wings just so to keep her babies protected. Most excellent!
Your family should come first.
I am a fantastic gardener (I say that humbly... I’ve been doing it a very long time... it took a while to get here!) BUT, I’ve never grown strawberries and know nothing about them. Actually any fruit. I’m one that wants to master something before I add more to grow. Next year we start with strawberries! Thank you for sharing your experience!
Any who.... I wanted to share that low potassium brings in pests. The aluminum in the rain water binds to the potassium in the soil. Less potassium in a plant creates more carbohydrates (sugars) and that’s what the bugs want. It also creates a thin cell structure and it’s easier for them to chew through. Heavily push the potassium next year and see if that helps. There are organic way to add more. A liquid may be your best bet.
Where are you located? Thanks so much for chiming in! We finally got some rain and I swear it seemed to really affect certain plants. This happened last year too after a rain. It seems my peppermint is acting as the canary in the cave. I was thinking it was aluminum. Previously I saw the planes leaving trails. SMH. I am goin to get some potassium!
What kind of potassium?
You and your family are such a heartwarming pleasure to watch. Your home is so full of love, joy, contentment, and patience. You are a wealth of knowledge and sharing that engrained knowledge with others as you live your daily life, seems so very natural. You inspire me and teach me something new with every video. I feel so blessed to have found your channel❤️
Some gardening years are good for some things and not others . Each year is a new adventure. I’ve been gardening for 30 years. Love growing my own food and flowers. ❤ thank you for sharing your skills . Love your channel
And Your family is my families favorite ❤
I must say that you will never bore me with squash recipes. Out here in Indonesia we got flooded with tomatoes if we plant them right at the end of the rain season. Also if we plant squash or pumpkins, it will give us a whole lot of pumpkins to last us 2 whole years😂😂😂😂. We always end up giving & selling some away.
How do you store them that long or do you do some kind of preservation?
@@sherrikarlstedt6442 fully vine ripened pumpkin can last up to a year in room temp in a dark & cool room. I once or twice manage to keep a few up to 2 yrs long. Squashes don’t last that long but their plants keeps fruiting for up to 5 yrs before stopping. I don’t keep squashes around that long. I’d usually gave away or sold what my family couldn’t eat by setting up purchase order 2 weeks before our harvest. That way we won’t end up with too many to eat. The same goes for tomatoes when we used to plant them. These days due to rat infestation, we couldn’t keep a large veggie garden. We still never need to buy ginger, lemon grass, galanga and turmeric as we kept them in pots. They never stop producing either.
Great video. I especially liked the Momma Turkey caring for her brood.
Recently found this channel and it is very refreshing. You honestly and hard work is refreshing. Sweet children too.
Thanks for the garden observations… I’m skipping the straw on the strawberries! ( it’s predicted to be a warmer winter here) Your picket fence with all the flowers inspired me, I am going to do THAT!
Had to come into work at 5am this morning....brightened my day to see this pop up! Thankful for a new video to get me through this day!!! Much love from Cedar Rapids!
Morning! So happy you enjoyed it!!!
Congratulations Ruthann on your contract with a publisher for your two book contract. Can hardly wait the years ahead to read them. 😊😊😊❤
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You quickly became a favorite channel!
I'd love a video about your elderberry syrup. We have abundant harvests on our relatively young plants and have had trouble finding resources to help me turn the fresh berries/juice into elderberry syrup. So many folks use dried berries. I trust your methods and love learning from you. Thank you for bringing us all along during your gardening season. God is so good and we are so very blessed.
In Michigan’s National Forest, the wild strawberries end up freezing under ice and snow and they are prolific. I think you have the right idea. I love hearing about your analysis of problems. Thank you!
When you talked about the doggies scoring on your potatoes, it reminded me of 2022 onions for us. Our youngest mini doxie pulled out all but 3 of our onions after ignoring them for 8 years!
I enjoyed the recap. I live in the southeast Texas and we are running the air conditioner right now but will be dropping into the 50s tonight. I’m definitely a warm weather girl.
I think it is great to celebrate the successes and figure out why there were great and not so great results so you can learn how to do better. The Momma a baby turkeys are so cute! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and lifestyle with us. I really enjoy and I always learn something and enjoy your sweet attitude towards life!!
What a great all around harvest you had. My husband and I have about 800 sq ft of garden area and we raise lots of great stuff. I do supplement by buying bulk fruits and veggies from local Mennonites. I love having my pantry shelves full of all the food we can. I tried the dry canning of potatoes just the other day and we love the taste. Thanks for sharing.
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Nice reminder to not worry about the drought so much. My peppers, onions, tomatoes did great without rain, but I regret not watering my strawberries after they bloomed b/c it didn’t rain and I got no berries:(.
This makes me miss my garden so much already!!😭 Your garden is always beautiful & inspiring 😍
I miss mine too!!!!!
I am tickled to be one of your favourites! :) I have not bought certo since I watched your video on making jam without pectin! That is a great savings and it is so easy to do. I also covered my strawberries with straw and leaves too early last winter and voles or mice or rats eat a great deal of the plants. I had to buy more plants. So I will not cover with straw either this year. (Zone 5 in Ontario). I am glad to hear your findings on this matter! So enjoy all your videos and yes God is good all the time! Blessings, Diane
I covered the strawberry plants with straw prev year. NO fruit. Last fall I did not. I will let you know come spring in the spring in Ontario .
I’m with you, Ruth Ann, I don’t use pesticides. That’s the reason we have guinea fowl. Unlike chickens, the guineas will eat the bugs in the garden, but not the plants.
Learning something new &/or verifying tried and true are some of the things I enjoy about gardening - if it all was perfect every time we would take the blessings to much for granted ☺
Yes and I believe I’d loose interest if it weren’t challenging
As a kid we got sent out to the garden with a bottle half full of water to pick potato bugs. Thank you for your advice and taking the time to do these videos. I love learning what works well for others and how you do things around the farm.
Our cans had turpentine in them and also used for Japanese beetles
Ruthanne, I live in Manitoba Canada, our winters can reach -50 with the windchill. I have never covered my June bearing or ever bearing strawberries and they grow abundantly and multiply rapidly every year.
When I don't have Sulphur for my garden for my fruit trees or other plants, I crush a boiled egg and put it in the soil amongst the roots. I boil it 20 minutes so the Sulphur dioxide is more concentrated. It does help. Try using a staple gun and zip ties on your stakes for your peas. I make a notch In my stakes about every 8 - 12 inches with a table saw and then I can use string or chicken wire or netting and it doesn't slide once I tie it on.
Loved this! Thanks for sharing!! YES, GOD IS GOOD!! Amen!🙏🏻 ❤❤❤
I just love listening to you. My grandson (age 12) and I have been baking cookies and I’ve been processing lard and putting up pumpkin purée. We have been binge watching your videos as we’ve worked. You are fun to listen to and so educational. Thank you!
Wonderful!
I learn a lot from you. Great channel!
Family is much more important than RUclips! I took break from mine this year and I don't have nearly the following you do. We had no help to get h hay done this year so I stepped up, teddering , stacking bales delivering wagons. Doing that, the garden, homeschooling my. 4 year old, just got too much with RUclips.
You can have some of our rain. We got so much here in New England. Hay and gardening was certainly interesting
You are so sweet and so funny! I love what you said at the end about us that stick with you to the end of your videos are your favorite.❤😊😂
What a blessing you are to your family and us for sharing and teaching your intentional ways.thank you
Now I'm apprehensive about uncovering my straw covered strawberries Thanks for the great information Ruth Ann!❤
Thank you Ruthanne. God is good!❤
It sounds crazy but…ma used to give the 3 of us kids a piece of garden hose to beat our pear trees. Start at the bottom of the trunk and walking around the tree, keep slowly moving up the trunk as far as you can reach. You dont want to hurt the bark so just use a piece of hose or something similar. The reason to do this is to improve the circulation of the tree. My grandpa did this to all his fruit and nut trees. The years we did do this we had good yields. I hope this helps somehow! Looking back, the folks driving up the highway right in front of our house probably thought we were maniacs just running around beating on trees and occasionally each other ! 😏 Take care and God bless! 😊
Have you ever heard of comfrey? You can put it at the base of your fruit trees, and it will increase your yield and heal your trees. It’s a really cool plant. You can also make salves out of it. I love your channel. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us!
Good for you, putting your boundaries out there! I love that your family is first, as it absolutely must be. You're a wonderful example, RuthAnn. We had that same frost, I think! We're in Vermont, and it came on June 12th, killed most of our apple blossoms, killed my plum blossoms, and pear blossoms. Vermont lost well over half its apple crop this last year. Then flooding in July...mother nature is NOT happy with us!! And as a PS: I LOVE squash and pumpkin, and you could make as many videos on them as you want, I would never get bored, ha ha!
Garden Question: do you buy tomato seedlings, start your own seedlings inside, or plant seeds directly outside? Thanks!
This year we planted our tomatoes with rosemary, oregano and bell peppers- all together. Everything grew like abundantly!
Kale: we grew fewer kale but let them grow tall into “ trees”. They grew six feet tall and their leaves were so tender. Who knew!?!
The mama turkey in the garden with all the little ones under her was such a great picture! And it looked like you might be raising pineapple tomatoes. I grew them last year-different from my other heirlooms. I almost lost all of my strawberries three years ago by covering them. The voles lived nicely through the winter since they had food and shelter. Those rodents!! I'm in Okoboji, Iowa. 😊
Love your videos, and your channel! Please show how you start grape plants, my dad who has passed started his own and I didn't learn how to do it. Thank you so much for your time that you share with us.
Thank you for the video yes please share how you propagate them.
Lol the mischievous dogs were too funny 😂
Just found your channel about a week ago. I’ve been binge watching all your videos. Love your “real” life videos. Thankyou
Wonderful video; thanks for sharing your gracious thoughts! I so love seeing the children helping, & the special baby turkeys gathered under their momma’s wings! All those little legs! Blessings to everyone 🤗💗🇨🇦
I have found that fruit trees and nut trees cycle with several good years and then a not so good year. Then the cycle starts over.
Next year try putting dog hair from brushing your dog's into the garden area. The hair odor may help deter rodents. Worth a try
There is also Nitrogen in hair!♡
I already posted Ruth Ann❤ i watch your utubes over and over
I totally feel “at home” here. U and your family so very sweet. Such good helpers u have❤
Ruth Ann Saturday nite at 8pm Nov 4/23
I lost my very very best friend the love of my life
I have been watching your utube cuz u make me feel good and watching u talking about water bathing. I love your way
I am 72, as the love of my life was.
What is it like when a Mennonite lose a family member? I need the comfort❤
I will pray for God's comfort for you with your loss in Jesus Christ's name. Have a blessed day.
RuthAnn, I'm a new subscriber & I just love your channel, your personality & your love of the Lord! You are a fantastic wife & mother. I love watching your love for your family & animals. I have also learned some things from you in my 60's. Your cooking & preserving is amazing. Most of all, I love it when you say you're messy, an adult & you clean up your messes! I am messy too, so I love it when you say that. Since I'm retired now, I have been binge watching your wholesome channel. Grandma Kim❤️
I love staying to the end to see your GOD IS GOOD statement! I love to be reminded of that! ❤
I plant peas seeds from the Amish that are called dual peas. I use chicken wire for them to climb. I plant them on both sides of the wire. They really produce well for us. That variety is my favorite.
Thank you again Ruthann for sharing your thoughts and experiences on your garden. What an amazing experience for your children and you to share!
Winter question: Could you consider doing a presentation on which types of wood to use for an indoor fireplace? I heard that pine wood can be used as a fire starter and that made me think of dead Christmas trees that I see after Christmas. Can that wood be used? Thanks.
That wood could be used. You’d of course want to take all the small branches off.
I would add to only use it as a fire starter. Pine is so full of sap that it can build up and cause a chimney fire if you burn a lot of it/burn it full time... Ask me how I know, lol.
We have a dry climate here anyway, so often deal with dry summers. My tomatoes always do better when it's dry and I water from below only. Otherwise, mine will get a blite for sure. I am also a summer person, but find that the winters give me that extra time I need to plan the next years' garden and look forward to new challenges. Yours is beautiful! You are fortunate to have so many good helpers.
Through my years of gardening I’ve found that some years some things don’t do well at all, but there is always at least one vegetable or fruit that produces so bountifully. Like you, I’m always thankful for what the Lord gives me and try to take care of it even if I feel like it’s too much, because next year that particular thing might not do well at all. This year my fruits all did exceptionally well, as did my tomatoes. My green beans did okay, but not great. I got very few potatoes this year, too.
This video made me smile and nod my head yes!! I also live in Iowa, I am in the NE part and I had a bumper crop of tomatoes!! Mine were ready starting in Aug. I did roma and san marzano. I didnt water much either with the draught but it was a blessed year from the Father. My jars were all filled and I bought more. Thank you for your channel and all you share🥰🥰
I absolutely love the Turkey and her babes in your garden.
Now I want to start planning next year's garden already. 😆
Same
It’s been a pleasure. This is my first year following you & this 72 yr old learned sooo much. As I was watching this video, my hubby & I are canning 🍐 pears. God bless you & your family. ❤
This is my first year growing strawberries, and I was just preparing to cover them. After listening to your experience in going to skip that step. Thank you.
Another great video. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing.
My sister gave me a bunch of ever bearing strawberries this year. Some are doing well and others aren’t. She came over yesterday and told me to keep cutting the brown leaves and runners off. So we’ll see if it works. Both of us are organic growers which is a challenge amidst people who use pesticides all around us. Last year I let my garden lay fallow, tested the soil, and did remediation. Most of my garden is now planted but we still have some cold nights coming next week. Yesterday I put of 10 more walls of water which helps when it gets cold. I cover the tops with reemay. I thought about you first thing this moring as I headed out to begin my chores. I made my list yesterdy and got the list completed today. Then I came in and made dinner for tonight. Breakfast for dinner sounded good and it will buscuits and sausage gravey and probably a fried egg on top. Tomorrow is another day.
Maybe that’s why my tomatoes didn’t do well this year….husband watered them EVERY night. 😮 Would love to know/see how to propagate the grapes.
Same, I’d love to hear more about propagating grapes! My grandma has the best concord vine, I would be thrilled to have a start of that!
I can't watch my husband water plants for my own blood pressure and peace of mind. Is he trying to teach them to swim?? 😂
Your videos are so refreshing! My garden didn't do well for 2 reasons we were in a drought and I lost my husband in March so I am learning a new way of life.
I adore your videos! My family is on a small scale doing and learning, so we can do better when we get more land. We are always learning, and that is something that reminds us to be thankful for the bounty and humble in our endeavors. When one crop does not do well, there is often one or more that do fantastic in the same conditions, so it is an adjustment and always a harvest in gratitude. Blessings to you and your family!
Thank you for all the information we also had a draught till the end of summer all around us got rain we still had a fair harvest God is good
Thank you for sharing your struggles, as well as, your successes in gardening. It’s true that we learn from our failures, but we can learn from each other’s failures and successes as well. Great info. Love your content and family. Many blessings.
Hello my fellow Iowan ! I love your “ God is good” at the end of your videos. He sure is !! Your picket fence around the garden with the Zinnias and Sunflowers. ( 2 of my all time favorites ) is so wonderful. As is the rest of the garden. ❤ My Grandpa Hartwell RIP many , many years ago grew strawberries. He lived in
Carpenter Iowa ( a one street town) lol close to Mason city. He had a very large plot of strawberries. He sold them all over. 😊 He also had a beautiful garden. As a kid he would visit us in central Iowa. He always brought us brown garden gloves. Lol ( There was 10 of us kids ). Kids don’t like that stuff. Funny memory. Thanks Ruth Ann for this very nice replay of this summer. 😊
Those little legs peeking out from the momma was sssoooo cute! We live in a desert so we have to water. I lost all my peas and green beans even though I have chicken wire around my garden. Darn critters! Loved this video and thank you for sharing!
With regards to your potatoes, when you are home, take the dogs to the garden so that their scent is over the plants to deter the rodents and then put them inside the electric fence and out of the garden when you are not home. I did something similar with my cats to keep the mice out of the garden. It worked for the most part. Love hearing about your garden.
I wish I was as organized and efficient as you, I don’t know how you get it all done and keep everything so beautiful 🤷🏼♀️ I’m all alone know and can’t keep up 😏
Blessings to you Ruthann, you are a beautiful person inside and out !!!
Family 1st is always and forever. I never put a cover on my strawberry but I would buy a new plant every 3 to 4 years.
Ducks I think are the one's that will help with your garden without destroying it...they love those bugs 🐛 worth a try
That mama turkey with her babies is one of the cutest things I’ve ever seen
I’m in central NY. We had a late frost, cherry blossom and peach flowering time, cherries were very limited due to frost plus a spring drought. Then there was several inches of rain so what cherries there were many split. I was able to get about 1/2 the regular amount😕. There were no local apricots or peaches to be had because of that late frost. But God still provided what we neeeded.
The hen turkey with a dozen or so feet sticking out was too cute. What a great picture! Thank you.. 😊
Thank you for letting me spend my Saturday mornings with you! I always learn something new and helpful to use on our homestead! Love that the family comes first! God bless you all!
Lots of hard work. Lots of food as a reward.
You are so hardworking and informative. Thank you for posting.
Love your channel and content… love that you have not gone commercial… meaning promoting products etc. stay the course ❤
Thank you!!!!
Yes!! I’ve told my sisters the same thing. Love her, her knowledge and staying true to herself!! ❤
So encouraging to hear even you have garden disappointments despite your expertise. Makes my many failures seem more normal.
Hen you comb out your dogs, save the hair and place it around your garden in the spring. It works on my garden most the time
Yes. We’ve done that in the past. Will try it again!!
Oh i enjoyed this video! Thank you for taking the time to share it with us. God is good all the time!
Very nice and helpful video- thank you. My grandpa taught me to put straw on my strawberries late winter so that they would stay frozen and not thaw until warmer temps were consistent.👍🏼
Mulch your plants with straw to create a habitat that will attract ladybugs, ground beetles and green lacewings. These bugs will get rid of Potato Bugs for you while doing no damage to your garden.
We have trouble growing strawberries here (because of deer, birds, and other wild things). I have seen metal stock fence posts with 2 by 4 boards held in place (with strong metal wood screws) to the tops of the metal stock fence posts. Long strings of heavy cords, or coated wire, or heavy netting is then attached to the boards and brought down to where climbing beans or peas may reach them.
My parents followed the rule of growing The Three Sisters (corn, beans, and winter squash). They planted corn first (leaving a little extra room between the corn plants and rows). When the corn had put out their first real leaves, then they planted climbing bean seeds beside each corn plant. After, the beans started growing (and some of them had sent out their strings to attach to something) then they planted the winter squash seeds among the corn and bean plants (not close together because winter squash takes a lot of space). The broad leaves of the winter squash shade out most weeds and help slow down water loss from the soil. However, the corn, beans, and squash/pumpkin garden is not the place to take small children; because, it is a perfect place for snakes to hunt and hide. We always went into that garden armed with a sharp hoe (just in case we found a copperhead snake). If you find one copperhead, it's mate is somewhere near by.
I really want to try this methods this next growing season!!
Love your video. Even though we may do some things over and over there are always lessons to be learned whether they be positive or negative. You have showed us that in this video. AS a thought about the dogs digging up the rotting potatoes, maybe you could allow them into the garden when you and the children are out there so as to limit their explorations but still leave their animal scents behind. Great idea to grow some of the tomatoes with shorter maturity dates. Thank you for the video and stay warm and healthy.😊🌱🌺🌻🍒🍓🌽🥕
Ruth Ann you are our Favorite too!
Love the part with mama Turkey…made me take a deep breath and release a little stress Thank you for sharing ❤
I've been watching you for the past year,I've enjoyed watching your channel. You work to hard,always moving. You will live a long healthful life! I have made alot of your recipes and have learned so much from you. I live on 4 acres,and have grown alfalfa,to veggies. I live in southern New Mexico,hot and not much rain,but I can grow anything here. But I have no help from little kids,mine are all grown up and left the nest so now my garden is half the size,but raised on a farm will always grow veggies. You are very laid back and very patient with the growing to raising children
I loved the picture of the mother turkey with the babies under her wings, reminded me of how God protects us - under his protection