Beans, Beans, Beans!

Ryan was late in getting the garden out so we just now got our first picking of green beans. I picked yesterday, we snapped them last evening and I canned them last night. We ended up with 50 pints of beans! It's alot of work, from plowing to planting to picking to canning, but so worht it!

Abigail helped me and hung with me until 1am!! She was a huge help!

snapped and ready to go


washing the jars


Abigail putting salt in the jars




Blanching the beans




Filling the jars


Abigail filling a jar




waiting for the lids and rings


Abigail counting the lids and rings and bringing them to Mommy




ready to go in the pressure canner


loaded and ready to go - 20 pints


Under Pressure


Glad that Ryan got two of them! :) Made it go quicker.


Finished product


Abigail conked out. I made her lay down at 1am and she was out in minutes.