Showing posts with label Sugar Snap Peas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sugar Snap Peas. Show all posts

Friday, November 16, 2012

Soybeans, Scarlet Runner Beans, Snap Peas

After our Scarlet Runner Bean plants didn't produce any bean pods in the heat of the summer, they did grow pods as the weather cooled, and we were able to pick some pods that were developed, and they were huge!
 The beans are funky, from pink to purple.  It turns out that only the purple ones dried correctly, so the pink ones weren't fully developed yet. 
 Dried snap pea pods that were left of the plant were harvested for seeds.  Look like we have way too many.  Oh well. 
 The soybeans did very well. 
 We blanched and froze them. 


Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Snap Peas

So we harvested quite a bit of sugar snap peas, and we needed to preserve them.   Based on reading, we decided the best way was to blanch then freeze them. They were done in two batches, after removing the ends and strings.

Boiled for 2 minutes
 Cooled in ice water for 2 minutes
 Dried on paper towels
 Put in vacuum bags for freezing