Another of my Veggies

What, no picture? Say it isn't so! I've shown you a picture of my purple bush bean in another discussion and it's still doing great in its KFC chicken bucket. I've got a few others as well as regular green bush beans too that are all doing well, but that one is by far the best of the bunch. Since they're a bush variety, do you expect them to really need climbing support? I hope mine don't, because I didn't plan for that. I'm having a hard enough time trying to figure out what to do with my snap peas, although I did try something new last night when I planted a few more peas in the ground. I don't know if I'll yield enough for more than a few meals, since I don't have room for all that many plants, but if I do, I'll freeze some of them. I have a vacuum sealer and it's quick work to blanch and pop them in that then on to the freezer.

I love to grow and harvest green beans so I tend to overdo it. Mine are just now coming up, too. I've been freezing them the last few years but got a new canner recently so I'll can them this year. I prefer them canned because they're already cooked. I like to cook them with new potatoes and a couple of small chunks of ham. I also like them with garlic and salt.

Dont forget you also give us a bag of those beans sometimes too.

None of my beans or peanuts have come up yet. I've planted them almost a month ago at that but I used seeds from a pkg that was a few years old. Maybe I'll replant using the seeds from last years pods that I let mature. I seem to have more luck with them coming up than I do with the pkg seeds. As for the peanuts, they were very old seeds and are hard to find so guess no peanut plants this year. I usually freeze my beans but no matter how I do it, they end up being soggy and not tasting good at all. Don't know what I'm doing wrong either.

Hi GRANDPA BOB! I do sometimes steam it and put some butter on top of it. However, most of the time I sautee it with garlic and onion then add a cup of water to the garlic, onion and ground beef then add cup of water. When ground beef is cooked, I put the beans. Sometimes I also add carrots. If you have beef cube, you can put it before the beans so it will be more tasty. Take Care and God Bless! Happy Mylotting!

I love fresh green beans, but we haven't grown any in years..I make mine with water and either chicken or vegetable stock because I stay away from pork, a little garlic and onion and it gives the beans a great flavor...

I never learned to can them, maybe I'll talk my son into learning how to do it and he can teach me.. He's the one who likes to cook at this house..