canning!

Today I cleaned up all my Green Beans outside. The older plants were just starting to look awful

so I pulled them all up, and only picked off the younger beans (not many). Then combed through the younger plants, picking beans and cleaning up litter. Squashed a lot of stink bugs, too. Discovered that quite a few of my plants made crawly vines, which I hadn't noticed before as they were tangled all on the ground amongst themselves and the broccoli. So I put a few sticks in the ground and lifted them up, it looks awkward but at least the beans won't be all over the ground.

I had a whole boxful of beans so I decided to try canning again.

Here they are all cleaned and cut.

Almost half on closer inspection were too old or bad,

 so I was over ambitious in washing ten pint jars!

I only filled four. Here they are just ready to go into the canner

and just come out. They all made a nice ping!

I found it a lot easier this time to keep the pressure steady, too.