Garden Fresh Beans

Hailey with Yellow Beans

The garden is growing great and we have picked our first set of beans. Hailey and I picked the ones that were ready.  It was probably around 8lbs of beans.  Then all of us helped wash, dry and snap of the ends.

I kept out a pound to have for dinner this week and then decided to freeze the rest of this batch. I blanched them for 4 minutes in boiling water and then put directly into ice water to stop the cooking process.  We then went ahead and separated them into family size servings.  Jamie used his vacuum sealer and bagged them all up.

Now we will have fresh beans in the winter.  I'm hoping to can the next batch so we will have both ways of preserving and can decide which one we like better and do just that way next year.

 

6lbs of Yellow Beans

2lbs of Green Beans

Beans all packaged for freezing