Our garden green beans took home the gold this year! A month ago, we picked about 6 bushels and they are still holding strong, providing a continuous supply of fresh green beans. We decided to store our harvest in gallon size freezer bags and keep them in our basement’s deep freezer. If you are tired […]
Fermented Dilly Beans
How to make lacto-fermented Dilly Beans! I love dilly beans of all kinds, but these fermented dilly beans are the best. If you’ve never tried fermenting vegetables, this is a great recipe to start with!
Green Beans: Pole or Bush
Beans Before choosing a type of green bean to plant, you’ll have to decide on whether you want pole beans or bush beans. This will depend on a few things; the amount of space you have available, how many beans you want to harvest, and what resources you have at your disposal. Pole beans produce […]
Green Beans!
Green beans.. grown in our garden, hand picked by us, no pesticides, insecticides, or chemicals of any kind, and Pressure Canned by us! I feel like running around singing that Flashdance song, What a Feeling. (Seriously, especially after I looked it up!)
Canning green beans
So you’ve been freezing green beans since you can remember. But now you’re ready to try them in the pressure canner. Want to see a tutorial? Here’s how I pressure can beans (raw pack method) every year. I’ve included plenty of pictures for you along with a chart for altitude adjustment.
How to Can Green Beans
My garden has been producing like crazy this year! Don’t get me wrong, I am loving it, but whew! It’s exhausting sometimes. We planted 160 green bean plants this year and we even staggered it, by planting one bed one week, then another the next, and the next and so on. But you know the […]
