A few days ago, I picked all my beans again, my third picking. I found out while picking the beans that the plants in the raised bed were getting moldy, so I ended up pulling a lot of them out. It's been a rather wet year here, and I think they just didn't dry out underneath the leaves. Even some of the beans were getting moldy where they were sitting on the ground. There were only 4 or 5 plants left when I was done pulling out the bad ones. I should get a few more beans from them.
I had enough beans between those plants and the yellow beans in the containers to do another canning session. This time, I did all of the work of canning out in the greenhouse canning kitchen.
Here, the jars are full of beans and heating up to prepare them for the pressure canner.
I was heating up the lids on the camper stove.
Here's the first batch of 8 jars, fresh out of the canner.
I had enough beans to do another batch of jars, this time 6 jars.
I didn't have any problems with any of these jars sealing. Canning beans is about as easy as canning gets, they are about the least likely to give you trouble with canning, as long as the rims of the jars are good, and you heat up the lids before you put them on the jars. I always check the jar rims for chips or cracks when I wash them, if I find a bad one I set it aside. If it's not chipped all the way across the rim, I might use it for dry storage, otherwise, I just throw it out. If the rim has a chip or crack, the jar won't seal and is no good for canning.
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