Canning at the Wallace Ranch

[dewdropsinwv]

Today Monty picked green beans off of two rows of our green beans I helped snap the green beans while he did some picking, then he came in with another load. We canned up 26 pints and 7 quarts of green beans so far. He will be picking the last row of green beans tomorrow. It smells so good in our kitchen !!! One of our pint jars of green beans broke in the canner
I'm sure he will post pictures tomorrow

 

[journey11]

Sounds like you guys really know how to pull good teamwork. Oh, I hate when a jar breaks. Aside from losing that bit of hard work you put in, then you have a mess to clean up too. Bummer! I'm hoping to can lots of beans this summer. They are so good!

 

[dewdropsinwv]

It was only one pint jar But it still stinks.... It broke in the canner, so Monty cleaned it up. I was outside when it happened. He only put in 3 rows of green beans this year..... Most of our kids are grown and on their own so we dont really need 5 or 6 rows anymore! But I sure miss havinghe extra help snapping the beans

 

[MontyJ]

Here is what I've been doing the last two days...

picking beans...I picked out the rusty ones.





dug a few red potatoes to go with them...



packed the jars...





into the canner...



and finally done...








We canned 27 pints and 21 quarts. I lost one pint to breakage and one didn't seal. The quarts have red potatoes and ham in them. Dew found a great deal on a smoked ham shank at the grocery and brought one home. I skinned it and used pieces of the skin in the pint jars for seasoning. We had a pint with dinner tonight...soo very good!

 

[journey11]

They look soooo good. I'd put ham hock in everything if I could.

I'm starting to see baby beans on the vine...come on, come on!

 

[baymule]

Those are some real nice looking green beans!

 

[dewdropsinwv]

pretty dang good too. Our dinner last night was, chicken (our own), green beans, potatoes, and cabbage and noodles. 95% of our dinner we grew/raised!!!!

 

[journey11]

Isn't that an awesome feeling.

 

[MontyJ]

Picked 2 rows of beans again today. I have 7 quarts cooling in the cooker now, another 14 waiting to go in and about 5 quarts to bag up for tomorrow when I pick the third row. I also dug up 4 red pontiac plants because they were heaving really bad and I needed red potatoes for the beans and for my potato salad that is going with this weekends cook out. I weighed them on the digital kitchen scale, 15 lbs!

 

[bj taylor]

monty & dew, I bet your friends and neighbors love knowing you're having a cook out or coming to a cook out. they probably start drooling.