Good morning Ruth-Ann I’m a 60 year old woman and I’ve learned more from you since finding your channel than you will ever know. And I thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Looking forward to this seasons adventures in the garden! God is good!🙏❤️
Yep! I'm 60 yrs young and also have learned so much and so enjoy the videos too! Makes life so fun listening to her video while I'm doing canning and farm work!
A 100+ year old friend taught me this recipe for my orchard trees. In gallon jugs prepared like yours, place 1 banana peel, 1/2 gallon water, 1/2 c sugar, and 1/2 c vinegar~works great!
I wish I had known this before my hundreds of peaches were ALL filled with worms. But maybe next year. I thank you ❤ Your channel is beyond awesome and amazing and so are you
I love your humbleness sharing we all have to learn from practicing. We all can’t be instant experts from reading one book or watching one video. Improving our skills is a life time job and you share that perfectly! ❤❤
Hello RuthAnn and sweet family! Excellent information for the fruit trees so many people can learn from. The recipe for the Codiling Moth that destroys fruit trees is a great organic way to control the reproduction and keep the fruit organic without spraying chemicals. 1 clear gallon milk jug that’s been cleaned out. Cut a window in the jug opposite of the handle high up and just below the shoulder of the jug. 1 cup apple cider vinegar 1/3 cup blackstrap molasses 1/2 Teaspoon ammonia 2 cups water Tie jugs as high as you can reach with a sturdy cloth like a t-shirt onto the limbs of the fruit trees. Hang the traps before, during or after your fruit tree blooms. Leave traps to hang until you harvest the fruit. If the liquid in the jug dries out, just add more water to reactivate the ingredients again. The ducklings are so cute and the boys are enjoying them and kittens too. Spring is such a beautiful time with all the new babies on the farm and cattle are happy to have fresh grass to eat. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I hope you and your family have a blessed weekend!
I always wondered how to trim fruit trees. The amount of knowledge you have is amazing. Teaching your children is so very important. Your giving them life-saving skills.
Another jam packed half hour full of little tidbits of knowledge! Thank you RuthAnn. And hearing you at the end brought me back to hearing my grandmother.... 60 years ago!
God IS good! I am 75 years old and it is getting harder for me to work in my garden since I have back issues, but I’m still trying. I get such enjoyment out of watching your videos. Thank you so much for sharing. You are such a blessing.
Ruth-Ann I don’t think you have any idea of the magnitude & helpful content your videos provide to so many people!! I love your recipes and especially your helpful advice on practical things a person needs to know to have a successful homestead. Yours is the first I’ve ever seen on an organic recipe for killing the moths. And also teaching how to prune fruit trees! This one video has made our year. We recently bought a home with a lot of sad looking fruit trees. We had a small harvest, but a lot of worms. Didn’t want to spray pesticides so was at a loss as what to do. So a huge thank you for giving us our answer!! We are looking forward to a better harvest this year now!! I’ve learned so much from you and that is saying something as I have quite a lot of knowledge. God bless you & your family! God is so good, ALL the time.
I really enjoy your videos and even think of you as my new friend. It’s lovely how you can teach and mother simultaneously. You are blessed. Thank you for all you do to teach us the old ways and good things about homesteading. I’m a city girl and needed these videos more than most possibly. 😘
I was surprised to see you prune in the Spring! My dad always did pruning in the Fall so the sap would not be up in the tree! Perhaps our area or your area makes a difference. We live in Western North Carolina, but I would think your weather would be colder than ours. I so very much enjoy your videos. I'm 76 and have still learned so much from you! You are my favorite TH-cam videos other than the preachers I watch!! How I wish I could go back and know what I do from you!! I love you and your family! So sweet!!
Good morning Ruthann - From your Nebraska neighbor. I enjoy your videos and just found you about a month ago. Thank you for your videos. I’ve learned a lot from you!
Good Morning Ruthann and family, your cows where so excited to be out getting fresh grass,I got tickled at them running , thank you for sharing part of your life with us , you amaze me, I love the way you teach us, your fruit trees are beautiful, I love the beautiful apple blossoms they look beautiful in your home and beautiful on your trees. I am so sorry I did not get to participate in the challenge for the mixer and dehydrator I do not have a Instagram I just have a TH-cam channel, I may have to open a Instagram account so I can learn more from you. Thank you every Saturday morning you brighten my day with your calming voice and I know I will be learning something new, you are an amazing lady that is full of Gods love and grace. Thank you!!
If you do summer pruning (instead of late Winter/Spring pruning) and just bend those suckered out of the branch, you will have less suckering. Also, if you prune a branch out, but down to the collar of the branch, do not leave stubs, or even little stubs. You can see the rings that indicate the collar. When you leave a stub the tree cannot decompartmentalize (cover the wound) and the stub will rot and rot into the trunk.
I want to thank you Ruth for the recipe on the fruit tree bug juice! We just made a new batch and hung them up on our peach tree and apple tree. They were so full of the bugs. That was Sunday afternoon when my husband changed them and he checked tonight and a bunch more are in it! Thank you very much!
Dear Ruth Ann, Another idea is to tie a ribbon around the branches that have leafed out that you can tell will never bear fruit, but then prune them in the early spring BEFORE the tree leafs out, since that tree will have expended lots of energy in the spring to grow them. Blessings on your 2024 harvest!
I did this after watching you. I have 2 pear trees. Only 1 has produced fruit so far I hung one in my tree that blossomed. Ive caughted moths in it. Thank you so much!
What a very helpful video, thank you, Ruthanne!! We "inherited" 2 apple trees and a pear tree when we moved to this house. The trees had been planted, I assume, when the house was built in 1976, and had not been pruned in a very long time. We get the coddling moths pretty bad. Last year was the first time we got any kind of apple harvest, so I took advantage, and didn't have to buy any apples! The pear tree is very good. It produces such huge, juicy, sweet pears, that we get many more than we need most years. This year, we decided to get some new trees to go along with the existing ones: 2 dwarf apple trees, a semi-dwarf peach, and a standard plum. We hope to keep them ALL pruned! We too want to rely less on the grocery. We do have a local farmers market at a bulk food store owned by a German Baptist family. It is very nice to have that to fall back on when something in my garden doesn't produce. But we don't know, any of us, what tomorrow holds. They all might need to keep their harvests to feed family or those in need. ETA: today would have been my parents' 62nd anniversary. They were married in the living room of the home I grew up in, and my mother carried a bouquet of apple blossoms that one of my brothers cut for her❤
Good morning. It is very early in Vegas. Still recovering from rotator cuff surgery and not sleeping well. No fruit trees now but grew up with trees and vines. Miss/don’t miss spring pruning. Love the videos! Making candy today! Or at least trying to!
Good morning in the beautiful springtime. Where everything is coming alive. Its such a beautiful time to see everything coming into bloom and the enjoyment from the animals, and we the people as well. Great fruit tree maintenance on trimming as well as getting rid of the pest. Love all the new births of the animals. Happy planting. Yes absolutely God is good.
Ruth Ann, thank you for sharing your many gifts and talents with all of us and most especially me! You have such a wonderful way of teaching in a way that breaks your lessons down in such a simple and basic way that makes it more easy for me to understand. You have a gift to remove the "fluff" (if you will) and break whatever you teach me at the very least what I had sometimes found difficult! You've given me so much confidence to dig in and tackle things that I had anxiety to start. I.e. pruning my fruit trees! canning, gardening, farm animals, baking, and the list goes on... So in short Im sending you a heart felt thank you from me to you friend Wishing you and your's great love and happiness, peace, health, and contentment ❣️😇
Fruit, there is a natural clay you spray the fruit trees with, once the fruit has started to form. James piggioni ( food forest) has a videos about it. Apparently it just makes them less tasty to bugs, but we can wash it off. Just offering the idea.
I love your videos. I was born in Iowa and my soul is still there. I love your gardens!! You are amazing. If you don’t mind, I would like to comment on just one thing. You really do not need music in the back ground of your videos. Just the natural sounds of the farm is so pleasing and relaxing, it is all you really need. THANK TOU for your wonderful videos and sharing your life.
I actually love Ruth Ann’s background music. Sometimes I don’t on other channels but for some reason that happy little tune just makes me think of their beautiful farm and family.
I grew up with 2 apple trees in our yard. Mom didn’t store any but made plenty of butter, jelly, sauce and pies. Organic so yes, blemishes and worms here and there. Best pies ever❤
Wow, the wind was blowing! Ruth ann thanks again for sharing great information pruning fruit trees. I wish you were my neighbour homestead farmer! God bless you!
Your cows were literally kicking up their feet with joy to be in the green field of grass and brought a big smile to my face... Thanks for the recipe of solution to protect fruit trees from wormy fruit. I do not like to spray for health reasons, expense and time. I will be trying this! Thanks so very much!!
Ruthanne, you look so cute standing there being blown around by the winds, but smiling, holding a bouquet of flowers and “acting natural.” Also I can see how patient you are, when your vases kept being knocked down, and you just picked them up over and over.
Spring is just the best. Everything coming back to life, even us. It lifts my spirits so much. ❤Thank you for another informative, inspiring video. I was smiling so big watching the cows be so happy to go outside. 😁💝🙏
I look forward to your videos each week. I started pressure canning last year. I will soon be 73 yrs old. Lol. Better late than never. I'm planning to do your baked beans soon. I am going to add a few chopped jalapenos to mine. Thank you for your inspiration. God bless ♥️
Beautiful sunrise, then seeing Dave enjoying himself while rolling in the dirt - so glad to see him doing well! Very interesting information on the preventative for moth worm control. Please tell Harrison that I like his new haircut 💙 I saw that Winston got to go along with the trip to your sister's greenhouse Those flowering apple branches look absolutely gorgeous in your home, and I bet they smell good too! I love that you pronounced "God is Good" in German. I would love to someday learn at least some Pennsylvania Dutch. Thank you as always for your delightful videos!
I don't know how I missed this one! Such GREAT information and I will DEFINITELY be doing this next spring. Thank you Zimmerman's! From grateful Minnesota viewers ❤
I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to get this recipe on how to keep my apple trees and my neighbors and my friends apple trees and and other fruit trees free of worms I have always wanted to do this and didn't know how to keep them out I am so thrilled. I so look forward to all of your videos. God bless you and all of your family such a beautiful family
1 c apple cidar vinegar, 1/3 c dark molasses, 1/2 tsp ammonia or bleach, 2 c water. Thank you so much. I think our apples in KS are already too big in size to interrupt this moth cycle but will definitely use next year! Your info is always helpful to me. God bless!😊
I put maggot barriers on my apples. It’s a lot more work, but it also has more success. I buy them from Raintree Nursery. I put the. On when the apples are about an inch in diameter.
Ruth Ann, will you show us what the jug loos like when you harvest or when there is no need for the jugs anymore? Please. God is good! I saw you had your precious. What a blessing. 🙏🍎🍏😇
Thank you Ruthanne for sharing your farm experiences with us! Brings back precious memories of our farm beginnings (1967) with chickens and sweet Muscovy ducks with brood! And yes kittens in the hay! We had everything but cows LOL! Blessings on your family and your homestead!🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿 Yes... God is good all the time! Amen!
Thank you for showing how to prune your fruit trees, Ruthann, as I bought 2 new plum trees last year, and I need to prune them now. They've grown a LOT, and both have lots of suckers both at the bottom and growing on the branches. I always learn something useful from your videos, and your youngest boys are getting so grown-up! 💖
All the time! And all the time God is good!!😊 May I ask for prayers? And May I tell you how much you are helping me? I’m sick and watching your family is just so calming and they are precious, so thank you! And God bless y’all! Hugs from Texas!🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻👑💕🕊🙏🏻🥰🌷
Thanks for this video. I have an old (maybe 40+ years) apple tree that's slowly dying. A hummingbird still perches on a dead branch when we eat dinner outside. I don't quite want to cut off the dead branches yet and really don't want to take the tree down. But i have planted a replacement tree so I'll be ready.
❤ Merci beaucoup, vos explications sont claires et faciles à suivre. 😁❤️ Personnellement, les semences sont ce que je préfère, ainsi que les arbres fruitiers. ❤ Nous déménageons enfin dans 7 semaines, chez nous, une fois de plus dans un milieu agricole, très touristique, devant notre beau fleuve St-Laurent. ❤😊 Malgré nos cinquante années bien sonnées, nous ne pouvons sortir la campagne de nous mêmes 🙂❤️. Vos vidéos sont pour moi une mine d'informations que je transmets à nos 3 filles et à notre petit fils de 3 ans et sa cousine qui vient d'arriver parmis nous, il y a tout juste 3 semaines. ❤❤❤ À bientôt dans vos autres vidéos! Bisous du Québec! Geneviève xxxx
So nice to see those cows almost dancing for joy when they got out on pasture! I enjoy your channel so much. I discovered it last summer and have enjoyed it thoroughly since. Wonderfully calming and informative viewing.
Thank you for your generosity with us. I have a small orchard here in Northern NJ. And every year have a bit of problems with pests. I am going to recreate your organic solutions for pest control. I pray you have a productive orchard and garden. May the Lord keep blessing us with food, family and love of neighbor. God Bless.
I really appreciate your videos that teach me not only skills but how to get into God's rhythm of life with joy and calmness. That is a big deal in my constantly busy world so thank you and Bless you. I agree with others, I love these videos but our modern world saying that we need layers of mental distraction and influence with music or fast changing images is hard on our brains and stress responses. Ruth, you care so much about our bodies and not falling for the snares of this world, so thank you for giving us parts of the video where we can just hear the farm.
Some of your filming scenes were breathtakingly beautiful. They reminded me of old paintings from the early masters. Blessings from Ireland, although I’m in Spain on holiday ❤🙏🇮🇪
Thanks Ruth-Ann this is just the info I needed! I am 67 and learning from you all the time. I will now have more confidence and knowledge to trim our fruits trees on the farm. Already did some during morning chores lol this is great-did not know you could do this while the trees are blooming. Love your channel-Happy Spring to you and your family. Darlene
I have learned a great deal from your videos. I dry canned potatoes last fall and we were so happy with the taste and texture of the potatoes. I'm 75 years old and have been preserving food for years and have learned new and better ways of doing things. Thank you for making the videos and you are darling in your presentation.
My husband’s family has owned a tree spraying business for over 50 years in NE Iowa. My father in law used to prune trees to the point he would make customers cry thinking he had killed their trees because he took so much out!! Until harvest, when they’d have so many apples!! The sunlight has to be able to get through the branches, and if you have too many branches with a lot of fruit, the branches become too heavy and will actually break. Don’t be scared lol! It’s really hard to take out too much! 😁
@@Ruthannzimm This was a great video! I have apple and pear trees that need this! Thank you so much for the great info. I live in western NY small town.😊❤️
I’ve always left our fruit for the deer not wanting to spray. Today I’ll join you and reap our knowledge with you. 😊 Love to you and yours from me and mine ❤
I love your spirit and how you demonstrate real life homesteading!! I not only enjoy watching you and admire your tenacity, but I’m soooo thankful for all I have learned from you. ❤
Question: when planting your herbs, how do you decide what to plant next to each other? Also, what is your husband’s employment? He seems to be what we call handy, meaning skilled in many areas. You and your lovely family are my favorite, and yes, God is good.
What a beautiful video. I don't even think it would be possible to pick my favorite part. Maybe the baby ducks. Thank you for all you invest to share your life and wisdom with us. 😊
How interesting! I'm an old woman who will probably only purchase what apples or other fruit I use, but this video was very informative especially for anyone contemplating growing apples or pears etc. Thank you for sharing your wealth of info. God is so good!
Thank you so much. I have a couple of trees in bloom now and neef pruning so badly. It is very helpful to know that it's not to late to prune or put preventative jugs in the trees. I was thinking of diatomaceous powder, but do not want to get in my lungs. Your information is so valuable. You are my favorite channel for lifting the spirit. You have a beautiful way about you. May God continue to bless you and your family in Jesus Christ's name.
I love watching your videos while cooking breakfast! Maybe i missed this tidbit, but do the moth traps also catch bees or other pollinators? We have bee hives in our orchard and don’t want to risk killing them. Thanks for sharing!
I love the imagination of those boys! Picking up branches: 'I borrowed a crane' lol. They are hard working guys! The recipe for those moths and tree trimming tips are a bonus! Your backround music is always so cheery..and i look forward to hearing on every video 😊
Making me miss Illinois, my husband has been Pastoring since 1982. And we’ve lived in the south ever since. But God taught me there is beauty everywhere you just have to look for it. Love yous channel!😊
Thank you so much for the information. Especially the valuable information on how to keep moth worms out of your apples. I can't wait till your next video. Also, those baby ducks were so cute!
Thank you so very much…our apple tree blossomed for the first time in 17 years! We now have apples growing and already seeing the signs of the moth/worms. We planted a second apple tree also. We’re excited, but don’t have any experience yet with the maintenance and care. Your video and personal experience is very much welcomed! 🙏🏻💕🌱
Hello Ruthann! You & Miracle Homestead are my Very Favorite TH-cam Channels. You are such an Amazing Woman. Elvin is so Blessed. You are the Proverbs 31 Wife/Woman. Your videos are always interesting & fun to watch. I Thank You for your knowledge & willingness to share it AND I Love your Humbleness.
Good morning Ruth-Ann
I’m a 60 year old woman and I’ve learned more from you since finding your channel than you will ever know. And I thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Looking forward to this seasons adventures in the garden! God is good!🙏❤️
Yep! I'm 60 yrs young and also have learned so much and so enjoy the videos too! Makes life so fun listening to her video while I'm doing canning and farm work!
I’ve always just cut out the spots on my trees. I’m so excited to try this, but my trees are done blooming already. Bummer
Absolutely agree. Love your channel
Amen 🙏🏽!
Same! God is absolutely good! Hallelujah
I just wanted to compliment you on the quality of your filming, it's beautiful.
"Mom was right" famous words of every adult daughter. ❤
A favorite saying I once read is that by the time you realize your mother was right, you have a daughter who thinks you are wrong. LOL God bless!
When my daughter became a mother, she would call and apologize if she thought she’d done the same thing her daughter did. Lol
Oops. I think that’s a jicama.
❤️
And grown son.
A 100+ year old friend taught me this recipe for my orchard trees. In gallon jugs prepared like yours, place 1 banana peel, 1/2 gallon water, 1/2 c sugar, and 1/2 c vinegar~works great!
I will try this one
I will try this one too, thankyou!
Thankyou❤
Hi I am going to try your moth trap next year……..just curious do you still find wormy fruit
since using the traps?
I wish I had known this before my hundreds of peaches were ALL filled with worms. But maybe next year. I thank you ❤
Your channel is beyond awesome and amazing and so are you
Don't give up!!
I love your humbleness sharing we all have to learn from practicing. We all can’t be instant experts from reading one book or watching one video. Improving our skills is a life time job and you share that perfectly! ❤❤
Absolutely!!
@@Ruthannzimm Is the reply to my comment a few up legit? Or is that a spammer.? I didn't see that anyone else got a 'winner' reply. I'm just cautious.
I loved that time of year when they (the cows) kicked up their heels once they were turned out to green pasture! Such joy!
Hello RuthAnn and sweet family! Excellent information for the fruit trees so many people can learn from. The recipe for the Codiling Moth that destroys fruit trees is a great organic way to control the reproduction and keep the fruit organic without spraying chemicals.
1 clear gallon milk jug that’s been cleaned out. Cut a window in the jug opposite of the handle high up and just below the shoulder of the jug.
1 cup apple cider vinegar
1/3 cup blackstrap molasses
1/2 Teaspoon ammonia
2 cups water
Tie jugs as high as you can reach with a sturdy cloth like a t-shirt onto the limbs of the fruit trees.
Hang the traps before, during or after your fruit tree blooms. Leave traps to hang until you harvest the fruit. If the liquid in the jug dries out, just add more water to reactivate the ingredients again.
The ducklings are so cute and the boys are enjoying them and kittens too.
Spring is such a beautiful time with all the new babies on the farm and cattle are happy to have fresh grass to eat.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. I hope you and your family have a blessed weekend!
Thank you for the coddling moth ANTI recipe
@@janew5351 just thought it might help someone that has trouble writing or typing, maybe just print it off if they can.
I’m writing this recipe down too! Any substitutions for ammonia? It’s the only ingredient I’m missing…
@@jengerbrandt9574 Bleach
Does bleach work as well as ammonia? Or is it best to use the ammonia?
I like all the live plants inside your house 🌿🌱
Your flowering branches in the crock is lovely. So spring-like. This would make me smile with my heart each time I saw it.
I always wondered how to trim fruit trees. The amount of knowledge you have is amazing. Teaching your children is so very important. Your giving them life-saving skills.
Another jam packed half hour full of little tidbits of knowledge! Thank you RuthAnn. And hearing you at the end brought me back to hearing my grandmother.... 60 years ago!
We buy our seedlings from a precious, joyous amish couple just down our road💚 and yes, God IS good. Always.
my favorite part is the cows running to pasture, especially jumping for joy!!
God IS good! I am 75 years old and it is getting harder for me to work in my garden since I have back issues, but I’m still trying. I get such enjoyment out of watching your videos. Thank you so much for sharing. You are such a blessing.
I love how loving your children are to the animals. They have such good hearts.
Good morning Ruthann! Thank you for always having such good tips on gardening, baking, cleaning and sharing your beautiful family with us.
Ruth-Ann I don’t think you have any idea of the magnitude & helpful content your videos provide to so many people!! I love your recipes and especially your helpful advice on practical things a person needs to know to have a successful homestead. Yours is the first I’ve ever seen on an organic recipe for killing the moths. And also teaching how to prune fruit trees! This one video has made our year. We recently bought a home with a lot of sad looking fruit trees. We had a small harvest, but a lot of worms. Didn’t want to spray pesticides so was at a loss as what to do. So a huge thank you for giving us our answer!! We are looking forward to a better harvest this year now!! I’ve learned so much from you and that is saying something as I have quite a lot of knowledge. God bless you & your family! God is so good, ALL the time.
I really enjoy your videos and even think of you as my new friend. It’s lovely how you can teach and mother simultaneously. You are blessed. Thank you for all you do to teach us the old ways and good things about homesteading. I’m a city girl and needed these videos more than most possibly. 😘
It was so good to meet you at the women's homestead society confrence. Thank you for your suggestion on my teenage daughter. Such a blessing❤
You are so welcome!
When your daughter can accept the Trump way of life, that would be good. 😕
I was surprised to see you prune in the Spring! My dad always did pruning in the Fall so the sap would not be up in the tree! Perhaps our area or your area makes a difference. We live in Western North Carolina, but I would think your weather would be colder than ours. I so very much enjoy your videos. I'm 76 and have still learned so much from you! You are my favorite TH-cam videos other than the preachers I watch!! How I wish I could go back and know what I do from you!! I love you and your family! So sweet!!
I am from Western North Carolina also and we always pruned in the fall so the sap would be down.
What a beautiful morning shot! God is so Good ❤️
Good morning Ruthann - From your Nebraska neighbor. I enjoy your videos and just found you about a month ago. Thank you for your videos. I’ve learned a lot from you!
Welcome!!! So glad to have you here!!!
Love the kids out and helping!
I love to see fruit trees blooming in spring. The delicate colors and the scent are just a promise of the fruit to come.
Good Morning Ruthann and family, your cows where so excited to be out getting fresh grass,I got tickled at them running , thank you for sharing part of your life with us , you amaze me, I love the way you teach us, your fruit trees are beautiful, I love the beautiful apple blossoms they look beautiful in your home and beautiful on your trees. I am so sorry I did not get to participate in the challenge for the mixer and dehydrator I do not have a Instagram I just have a TH-cam channel, I may have to open a Instagram account so I can learn more from you. Thank you every Saturday morning you brighten my day with your calming voice and I know I will be learning something new, you are an amazing lady that is full of Gods love and grace. Thank you!!
Ditto, I don't have, nor want an Instagram account either. Sigh.
If you do summer pruning (instead of late Winter/Spring pruning) and just bend those suckered out of the branch, you will have less suckering. Also, if you prune a branch out, but down to the collar of the branch, do not leave stubs, or even little stubs. You can see the rings that indicate the collar. When you leave a stub the tree cannot decompartmentalize (cover the wound) and the stub will rot and rot into the trunk.
Love to see cows jumping around with excitement when they're going out to fresh pasture!!!!
I want to thank you Ruth for the recipe on the fruit tree bug juice! We just made a new batch and hung them up on our peach tree and apple tree. They were so full of the bugs. That was Sunday afternoon when my husband changed them and he checked tonight and a bunch more are in it! Thank you very much!
Dear Ruth Ann, Another idea is to tie a ribbon around the branches that have leafed out that you can tell will never bear fruit, but then prune them in the early spring BEFORE the tree leafs out, since that tree will have expended lots of energy in the spring to grow them. Blessings on your 2024 harvest!
Thanks for the tip!
I did this after watching you. I have 2 pear trees. Only 1 has produced fruit so far
I hung one in my tree that blossomed. Ive caughted moths in it. Thank you so much!
How well trained your milk cow is! No stanchion and patient enough for the kids to milk
Those "kids" look like pros to me!🤣
♥️♥️♥️
What a very helpful video, thank you, Ruthanne!! We "inherited" 2 apple trees and a pear tree when we moved to this house. The trees had been planted, I assume, when the house was built in 1976, and had not been pruned in a very long time. We get the coddling moths pretty bad. Last year was the first time we got any kind of apple harvest, so I took advantage, and didn't have to buy any apples! The pear tree is very good. It produces such huge, juicy, sweet pears, that we get many more than we need most years. This year, we decided to get some new trees to go along with the existing ones: 2 dwarf apple trees, a semi-dwarf peach, and a standard plum. We hope to keep them ALL pruned! We too want to rely less on the grocery. We do have a local farmers market at a bulk food store owned by a German Baptist family. It is very nice to have that to fall back on when something in my garden doesn't produce. But we don't know, any of us, what tomorrow holds. They all might need to keep their harvests to feed family or those in need. ETA: today would have been my parents' 62nd anniversary. They were married in the living room of the home I grew up in, and my mother carried a bouquet of apple blossoms that one of my brothers cut for her❤
Good morning. It is very early in Vegas. Still recovering from rotator cuff surgery and not sleeping well. No fruit trees now but grew up with trees and vines. Miss/don’t miss spring pruning.
Love the videos!
Making candy today! Or at least trying to!
Thank you!!! I pray you heal faster than normal!!!
I had hand surgery a few weeks ago so l hear you! Hi from Canada 🇨🇦 😊
Good morning in the beautiful springtime. Where everything is coming alive. Its such a beautiful time to see everything coming into bloom and the enjoyment from the animals, and we the people as well. Great fruit tree maintenance on trimming as well as getting rid of the pest. Love all the new births of the animals. Happy planting. Yes absolutely God is good.
Good morning to you too!!!!
Ruth Ann, thank you for sharing your many gifts and talents with all of us and most especially me! You have such a wonderful way of teaching in a way that breaks your lessons down in such a simple and basic way that makes it more easy for me to understand. You have a gift to remove the "fluff" (if you will) and break whatever you teach me at the very least what I had sometimes found difficult! You've given me so much confidence to dig in and tackle things that I had anxiety to start. I.e. pruning my fruit trees! canning, gardening, farm animals, baking, and the list goes on...
So in short Im sending you a heart felt thank you from me to you friend
Wishing you and your's great love and happiness, peace, health, and contentment ❣️😇
Thank you for these words!!!! I appreciate you!!!
I look forward to saturday so that I can watch what's new on the homestead! Thank you! I appreciate all the things you teach us!
Ruthann you have made tree pruning so much easier for me to do now. Many many thanx.
Do you think homemade apple cider vinegar will work?
Ps should u add this mixture on peach trees, too?
I am 72 and I have learned. Thanks .Judy
79 here, and I too have learned so much!! Thank you thank you❤
Fruit, there is a natural clay you spray the fruit trees with, once the fruit has started to form. James piggioni ( food forest) has a videos about it. Apparently it just makes them less tasty to bugs, but we can wash it off. Just offering the idea.
Kaolin clay?
@@DancingWatersAnCoFOBThank You so much
You're one of my favorites, too. I love Saturday TH-cam shows because you're there. I bless yoh.
I’m excited to see what your new building is going to be.
Good morning I'm enjoying your vast knowledge here thank you for sharing with us
I love your videos. I was born in Iowa and my soul is still there. I love your gardens!! You are amazing. If you don’t mind, I would like to comment on just one thing. You really do not need music in the back ground of your videos. Just the natural sounds of the farm is so pleasing and relaxing, it is all you really need. THANK TOU for your wonderful videos and sharing your life.
I love those sounds of nature.
I actually love Ruth Ann’s background music. Sometimes I don’t on other channels but for some reason that happy little tune just makes me think of their beautiful farm and family.
I grew up with 2 apple trees in our yard. Mom didn’t store any but made plenty of butter, jelly, sauce and pies. Organic so yes, blemishes and worms here and there. Best pies ever❤
Wow, the wind was blowing! Ruth ann thanks again for sharing great information pruning fruit trees. I wish you were my neighbour homestead farmer! God bless you!
Your cows were literally kicking up their feet with joy to be in the green field of grass and brought a big smile to my face...
Thanks for the recipe of solution to protect fruit trees from wormy fruit. I do not like to spray for health reasons, expense and time. I will be trying this! Thanks so very much!!
Ruthanne, you look so cute standing there being blown around by the winds, but smiling, holding a bouquet of flowers and “acting natural.” Also I can see how patient you are, when your vases kept being knocked down, and you just picked them up over and over.
Spring is just the best. Everything coming back to life, even us. It lifts my spirits so much. ❤Thank you for another informative, inspiring video. I was smiling so big watching the cows be so happy to go outside. 😁💝🙏
I look forward to your videos each week. I started pressure canning last year. I will soon be 73 yrs old. Lol. Better late than never. I'm planning to do your baked beans soon. I am going to add a few chopped jalapenos to mine. Thank you for your inspiration. God bless ♥️
That is awesome!
Beautiful sunrise, then seeing Dave enjoying himself while rolling in the dirt - so glad to see him doing well! Very interesting information on the preventative for moth worm control. Please tell Harrison that I like his new haircut 💙 I saw that Winston got to go along with the trip to your sister's greenhouse Those flowering apple branches look absolutely gorgeous in your home, and I bet they smell good too! I love that you pronounced "God is Good" in German. I would love to someday learn at least some Pennsylvania Dutch. Thank you as always for your delightful videos!
🥰 thank you for watching!! And I wondered if anyone would notice the Pa Dutch ‘God is Good’
@@Ruthannzimm gut gemacht!🌼
Yes, God is good!
I don't know how I missed this one!
Such GREAT information and I will DEFINITELY be doing this next spring.
Thank you Zimmerman's! From grateful Minnesota viewers ❤
Thank you for taking us along again this week! I enjoyed so much seeing the cows run and jump! ❤ xo
Glad you enjoyed! The happy cows are my favorite too
Awww happy cows so adorable . Seeing so happy . GODBLESS sweetie
I cannot tell you how thrilled I am to get this recipe on how to keep my apple trees and my neighbors and my friends apple trees and and other fruit trees free of worms I have always wanted to do this and didn't know how to keep them out I am so thrilled. I so look forward to all of your videos. God bless you and all of your family such a beautiful family
Wonderful!
I loved seeing your cows jumping and running towards the paster
1 c apple cidar vinegar, 1/3 c dark molasses, 1/2 tsp ammonia or bleach, 2 c water. Thank you so much. I think our apples in KS are already too big in size to interrupt this moth cycle but will definitely use next year! Your info is always helpful to me. God bless!😊
I put maggot barriers on my apples. It’s a lot more work, but it also has more success. I buy them from Raintree Nursery. I put the. On when the apples are about an inch in diameter.
Love watching your precious family. God bless and keep you
Thank you for giving me the courage to start pruning our trees. That has always intimidated me.❤️
You can do it!
Always a pleasure to see the goings-on of your week.
We just purchased fruit trees....this is perfect! Now I know how to trim and the recipe to keep the moths at bay! Thanks....your the best!!
Ruth Ann, will you show us what the jug loos like when you harvest or when there is no need for the jugs anymore? Please.
God is good! I saw you had your precious. What a blessing. 🙏🍎🍏😇
I checked the morning After hanging and had already captured moths!! I’ll continue to show!!!
@Ruthannzimm so cool, I know it sounds gross that I would like to see the end result, but I would like to see how many fall for your trap..
Thank you Ruthanne for sharing your farm experiences with us! Brings back precious memories of our farm beginnings (1967) with chickens and sweet Muscovy ducks with brood! And yes kittens in the hay! We had everything but cows LOL! Blessings on your family and your homestead!🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿 Yes... God is good all the time! Amen!
You are so welcome!
Thank you for showing how to prune your fruit trees, Ruthann, as I bought 2 new plum trees last year, and I need to prune them now. They've grown a LOT, and both have lots of suckers both at the bottom and growing on the branches. I always learn something useful from your videos, and your youngest boys are getting so grown-up! 💖
So glad it was helpful!!!
All the time! And all the time God is good!!😊
May I ask for prayers? And May I tell you how much you are helping me? I’m sick and watching your family is just so calming and they are precious, so thank you! And God bless y’all! Hugs from Texas!🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻👑💕🕊🙏🏻🥰🌷
Awe. God bless you!! May his healing power surround your body with peace!!
@@Ruthannzimm Amen!🙏🏻💕🌷🌷🌷😭
Thanks for this video.
I have an old (maybe 40+ years) apple tree that's slowly dying. A hummingbird still perches on a dead branch when we eat dinner outside. I don't quite want to cut off the dead branches yet and really don't want to take the tree down. But i have planted a replacement tree so I'll be ready.
❤ Merci beaucoup, vos explications sont claires et faciles à suivre. 😁❤️ Personnellement, les semences sont ce que je préfère, ainsi que les arbres fruitiers. ❤ Nous déménageons enfin dans 7 semaines, chez nous, une fois de plus dans un milieu agricole, très touristique, devant notre beau fleuve St-Laurent. ❤😊 Malgré nos cinquante années bien sonnées, nous ne pouvons sortir la campagne de nous mêmes 🙂❤️. Vos vidéos sont pour moi une mine d'informations que je transmets à nos 3 filles et à notre petit fils de 3 ans et sa cousine qui vient d'arriver parmis nous, il y a tout juste 3 semaines. ❤❤❤ À bientôt dans vos autres vidéos! Bisous du Québec! Geneviève xxxx
I’ve never seen happier cows! I hope you will give an update on how well the moth traps worked Ruthanne. Thanks for the info! 💖🦋🌺
So nice to see those cows almost dancing for joy when they got out on pasture!
I enjoy your channel so much. I discovered it last summer and have enjoyed it thoroughly since. Wonderfully calming and informative viewing.
I cannot tell you enough how much I enjoy your video's - I look so forward to each one - they make me happy! You and your family are a joy!
Thank you for your generosity with us. I have a small orchard here in Northern NJ. And every year have a bit of problems with pests.
I am going to recreate your organic solutions for pest control.
I pray you have a productive orchard and garden.
May the Lord keep blessing us with food, family and love of neighbor.
God Bless.
Loved this video! God bless.❤ 32:02
I really appreciate your videos that teach me not only skills but how to get into God's rhythm of life with joy and calmness. That is a big deal in my constantly busy world so thank you and Bless you. I agree with others, I love these videos but our modern world saying that we need layers of mental distraction and influence with music or fast changing images is hard on our brains and stress responses. Ruth, you care so much about our bodies and not falling for the snares of this world, so thank you for giving us parts of the video where we can just hear the farm.
God bless you!!!!
Some of your filming scenes were breathtakingly beautiful. They reminded me of old paintings from the early masters. Blessings from Ireland, although I’m in Spain on holiday ❤🙏🇮🇪
Thanks Ruth-Ann this is just the info I needed! I am 67 and learning from you all the time. I will now have more confidence and knowledge to trim our fruits trees on the farm. Already did some during morning chores lol this is great-did not know you could do this while the trees are blooming. Love your channel-Happy Spring to you and your family. Darlene
I have learned a great deal from your videos. I dry canned potatoes last fall and we were so happy with the taste and texture of the potatoes. I'm 75 years old and have been preserving food for years and have learned new and better ways of doing things. Thank you for making the videos and you are darling in your presentation.
Love your videos, you made me get up and go trim my fruit trees today. And make that mix for my trees. Thanks❤😂
You could also root those for more trees 😊
My husband’s family has owned a tree spraying business for over 50 years in NE Iowa. My father in law used to prune trees to the point he would make customers cry thinking he had killed their trees because he took so much out!! Until harvest, when they’d have so many apples!! The sunlight has to be able to get through the branches, and if you have too many branches with a lot of fruit, the branches become too heavy and will actually break. Don’t be scared lol! It’s really hard to take out too much! 😁
Good Morning! Wait every Saturday morning for your video❤😊
Good morning to you too!!! So happy to have you here!!!
@@Ruthannzimm This was a great video! I have apple and pear trees that need this! Thank you so much for the great info. I live in western NY small town.😊❤️
I’ve always left our fruit for the deer not wanting to spray. Today I’ll join you and reap our knowledge with you. 😊 Love to you and yours from me and mine ❤
Great job mom and family on all that you do.. Great job everyone. .Lochness Scottish Highlands..
I love your spirit and how you demonstrate real life homesteading!! I not only enjoy watching you and admire your tenacity, but I’m soooo thankful for all I have learned from you. ❤
Question: when planting your herbs, how do you decide what to plant next to each other? Also, what is your husband’s employment? He seems to be what we call handy, meaning skilled in many areas. You and your lovely family are my favorite, and yes, God is good.
Yes he’s skilled in many many areas!! Currently works full time as a foreman for a local Ag company
What a beautiful video. I don't even think it would be possible to pick my favorite part. Maybe the baby ducks. Thank you for all you invest to share your life and wisdom with us. 😊
Those apple blossom bouquets are stunning!!
Very interesting. I have been trying to find info on pruning. These days not many people knows much about pruning. Thanks dear.
How interesting! I'm an old woman who will probably only purchase what apples or other fruit I use, but this video was very informative especially for anyone contemplating growing apples or pears etc. Thank you for sharing your wealth of info. God is so good!
This episode is a treasure start to finish. Thank you RuthAnn!!
Thank you so much. I have a couple of trees in bloom now and neef pruning so badly. It is very helpful to know that it's not to late to prune or put preventative jugs in the trees. I was thinking of diatomaceous powder, but do not want to get in my lungs. Your information is so valuable. You are my favorite channel for lifting the spirit. You have a beautiful way about you. May God continue to bless you and your family in Jesus Christ's name.
I love watching your videos while cooking breakfast!
Maybe i missed this tidbit, but do the moth traps also catch bees or other pollinators? We have bee hives in our orchard and don’t want to risk killing them.
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks!
I love the imagination of those boys! Picking up branches: 'I borrowed a crane' lol. They are hard working guys! The recipe for those moths and tree trimming tips are a bonus! Your backround music is always so cheery..and i look forward to hearing on every video 😊
Thanks for your kind words and your support!!!
Fabulous photos of the children, the animals & beautiful countryside! Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦
Making me miss Illinois, my husband has been Pastoring since 1982. And we’ve lived in the south ever since. But God taught me there is beauty everywhere you just have to look for it. Love yous channel!😊
Thank you!!!!
Thank you so much for the information. Especially the valuable information on how to keep moth worms out of your apples. I can't wait till your next video. Also, those baby ducks were so cute!
Thank you so very much…our apple tree blossomed for the first time in 17 years! We now have apples growing and already seeing the signs of the moth/worms. We planted a second apple tree also. We’re excited, but don’t have any experience yet with the maintenance and care. Your video and personal experience is very much welcomed! 🙏🏻💕🌱
It was fun to see the cows running they look so happy! Have a beautiful week ! Thank you for you're wonderful videos!❤😊
Hello Ruthann! You & Miracle Homestead are my Very Favorite TH-cam Channels. You are such an Amazing Woman. Elvin is so Blessed. You are the Proverbs 31 Wife/Woman. Your videos are always interesting & fun to watch. I Thank You for your knowledge & willingness to share it AND I Love your Humbleness.
Love that you saved some of the flowering prunings, and put them in vases❤
Thank you for sharing your beautiful family with us. ❤