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Friday, July 19, 2019

Dilly Beans & Pickles


From the garden 
to the canning jar shelves.



I planted one row of beans this year.






Here I am going through them,
picking off the ends and any beans
than don't meet my standards :)
These do not have strings to pull,
I like that!


We do our water-bath boiling
outside using a propane burner. 







Steve watches the pot and times 
the boiling period.


Here they are all lined up 
and looking pretty.
We did 14 pints . . . 11 Dilly Beans
and 3 Dill Pickles.






Did you notice this sweet little sign?
It was a gift this Spring from our 
dear next-door neighbors. 


They also gifted me with the bulbs
that grew these pretty flowers.
I forgot what they are called,
but I'll bet some of you know. 

Thanks for visiting.

Keep Smiling
&
Thank you all for your prayers.

Connie :)




 

32 comments:

  1. So pretty, and such a lot of work. But don't those jars look grand? I like the idea of canning them outside, less heat for the kitchen. I don't know what the flowers are, are the HollyHocks? I was hoping someone would say what they are, they are so pretty.

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  2. You have to tell me, what is dilly beans? Love the sign, it is perfect.

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  3. I'm so envious of your bean crop! I have had a handful from my French climbing beans, but a lot of people here say much the same...it's the weather!
    I think your plant might be an Echium?

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  4. I love the look of preserves all lined up like that. Beans are one of my favourite vegetables

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  5. Just left a comment on your last wonderful post. What you have posted here is just as amazing. Those Dilly Beans look so good! and your green beans don't have any bug bites!! My little garden was right pretty this year but gosh, I've had problems with bugs on everything, except the eggplants. I pick enough beans in weight, to can seven jars but by the time I string the beans and snap them and throw out the bug eaten ones, I have about enough to can four jars. Oh well, I can look forward to changing things again next summer, can't I? :) I think of you and Steve every day and remember you both in my prayers. Hope Steve is doing well with the new round of treatment. Love you sweet Connie.

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  6. You've been busy. Smart thinking doing the water bath outside instead of heating up the house.

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  7. Connie, I loved seeing the beautiful results of your hard work. If I had to can to eat, I would have to starve...I do not know a thing about canning. But I do know that cooking that stuff outside is really smart in this heat...who would want to heat up their house. LOL I know you and Steve are enjoying your times doing things together. Blessings and prayers, xoxo,love, Susie

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  8. This all looks so fresh and healthy!

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  9. Hi Connie, I love stopping by to see what you are up to these days. What a productive garden you have! You and Steve are still on my prayer list so I see your names there every day and pray for you. Sometimes it's just a general prayer with all the others on the list, but always your names are lifted up to the Lord for His blessings.

    That is a sweet sign indeed, and I love those embroidered dishtowels too.

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  10. Hi Connie wow amazing goodies you have made from your garden they look fantastic all lined up on the shelves,love the tea towels hanging behind them so cute and such pretty flowers in your garden xx

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  11. I think a row of freshly canned produce is one of the prettiest sights! It all looks good. I think you guys are very smart to do the water bath outside!

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  12. You have been busy! Back when I canned, I remember that feeling of accomplishment as I lined up the jars. Love your sign!

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  13. My but your beans have been very productive!! I love the colourful jars all lines up.
    Could those pretty flowers be Liatris? Their common name is Blazing Star.

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  14. Hi Connie, Love your water bath set up outdoors! I need to see if I can find some reasonable priced beans and make some dilly beans too. That and dilly carrots are a good way to get extra veggies into me. I have had a few beans off my little patch but not enough to can. The embroidered towels look so pretty above your canned goods! It was 97 degrees my phone said today but said it felt like 107. Love the sign and oh, how true! Praying! Nancy

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  15. Hi Connie- Well done there on the Preserves- will certainly be treats! All the best to you Connie and Steve. Regards. KEV.

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  16. You've had a very productive week. Those jars look so pretty all lined up in your cupboard. Must make you proud every time you look at them. Abundant blessings.
    xx Beca

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  17. Hi Connie! :) Firstly, I agree with your shelf message...gardening IS cheaper than therapy! Whenever I'm in the garden, pruning, weeding, watering or just checking things out...my mood softens and I feel good. :) That's a very smart idea to do your canning outside. Is it an expensive set up with the propane burner? I've always thought about doing that, but I want to wait until we buy our place first. When I was doing my strawberry jam the other day, boy oh boy did it get humid in the kitchen...even with the oven fan going!

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  18. What a good feeling to have all of that done to enjoy during the winter months. I love your pretty little dish towels! Enjoy your weekend. Hugs to both of you!

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  19. What a great team you make you preparing the veg and Steve timing the canning process. Such a great idea to use the cooker outside.

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  20. I’ve done very little canning, only remember a few times, but I admire anyone who does it like you do. It reminds me of my grandmother’s shelves lining the basement stairs. There were always rows and rows of jars there from her garden of summer. I never appreciated what she did to get those jars ready to be enjoyed over colder months. They were very self-sufficient in the early 1900s. Thanks for visiting my papier-mĆ¢chĆ© birdies!

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  21. Your green beans look marvellous and so does your pickle! I love the sign from your neighbour! I hope that there are more ups than downs in your life right now.

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  22. I remember my Grandma cannning dilly beans. They were SO good. When I had a garden I blanched and foze mine as that's how Dennis preferred them. Funny, when we prefer store canned over store frozen beans, but the opposite when I was canning/freezing them. The tomatoes look yummy too. I used to can about 50 quarts of tomatoes every year when the kids lived at home. Now, I don't can at all because of my back. Maybe someday I'll be able to get back to that as we miss that home-canned freshness of chili sauce, zucchinni relish and tomatoes.
    Love the sign, it's oh, so true!
    Blessings,
    Betsy

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  23. You've been as busy as a little bee! and will have special things from your jars for cold winter meals. And what a smart way to use the canner; keeps all that heat out of the kitchen.
    The flower is Liatris. I have a clump but it won't bloom this year due to being smashed when a big tree was blown over on it during a wind storm.
    Loved the dishtowels!

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  24. Everything you do is beautiful art...even canning green beans. I am a bit envious of your outdoor propane cooker; surely would be nice for my cloth dying projects. I know you like not heating up the kitchen with all that hot water. As Henny mentioned, your beans are almost flawless. We have had lots of trouble this year with Japanese beetles. I refuse to use chemicals so it has been a tedious business of keeping them picked off and dropping them into a bowl of soapy water. I think often about you and your husband and hope everything is going well.

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  25. Oh Connie it looks like your garden is really taking off and you are keeping quite busy with it. Love how lush it all is, love seeing all that green!
    I certainly did notice the cute sign, love it, as well as the lovely flowers you were gifted. I love how you have your towels hanging up there too!

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  26. You have been busy. All looks great.
    We have quite a few of those liatris around our house also given to us by a friend.
    The dish towels are lovely.

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  27. I use to can a lot, but not anymore. Your jars look beautiful side by side. Love the idea of doing outside. You guys are brillant!

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  28. Dilly beans ~ YUM!
    My dear friend gave me a family recipe for dilly beans. She told me that as kids, they used to think it was such a treat to crack open a jar of dilly beans :)

    Love your sign and I was thinking that the flowers look like liatris, though I could be wrong on that count.
    You are both in our prayers.

    Sending {{hugs}}
    ~K.

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  29. How I wish I could taste your home canned goods! They all look so delicious. My mouth waters just looking at the photos! They're even beautiful just lined up on shelves, aren't they? Love the sign your neighbors gave you - it's cheery and has the perfect saying. And your flowers...I believe they are lupine.

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  30. Oh those look so good Connie! You are such a workhorse! You are amazing! Love all the photos of your pretty jars all lined up in a row.. with those beautiful towels. Your garden is so beautiful and lush and there is such bounty there. It must make you feel so proud! Hugs to you and your Steve..... Marilyn

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  31. Your canning amazes me, and you just don't see this being done that much anymore. I love coming over here and seeing all the delicious things you make and preserve. : )

    ~Sheri

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  32. You remind me how much I miss a garden and canning. Thank you for sharing your garden with us.

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