It's late Spring and the garden crops are coming in so fishing has been put on hold for a while. This past week I spent some time pulling beets, washing them, boiling them, and then canning, pickling and freezing them. I had to jump off the beets for a few days as the snapbeans were due to be picked which was delayed an extra day by the rain. We canned some beets fresh and some of them pickled. I still have a pan full in the fridge which I will handle today. Yesterday I was up at 2 AM working on the beans which I had picked the evening before. By the time Linda got up they were already cut up and blanched and ready for pressure canning. I had 40 pounds of beans to process which yielded 21 quarts jars plus some left over which we shared with our 2 sons.

The beets, small jars fresh canned quarts jars pickled.






Snap beans drying after washing


21 quarts ready to store or eat