Absolutely Holly! I very excited about the gardening and canning posts. The problem with my green beans last year is that I didn't count how many seeds or plants we had. We planted them in a different style than we normally do as an experiment. The experiment went great and I hope to actually show pictures this year of how we did it. (and I hope to count the plants and calculate how many bushels we are getting off them!)

We used the Ruth Stout mulching method of gardening and loved it for a lot of reasons. I'll devote a whole post to that and have that up soon. She never actually planted seeds...she sorta just sprinkled the seeds on the ground.

We had a green bean patch actually. I actually had to pull a few plants up so we could get to some of the other ones.

But yes... i want to cover how much to plant based on estimating what each plant can produce...and then out of that, how many canning jars you can get out of how much produce.

I was getting about 15 jars out of one bushel of green beans ( which is around 30 lbs). No, I don't have the big canner. I have the one that is a 7 qt. one...but the great thing is that I live in an area where all my friends have the same canner...so when one of us is going to can, we borrow one another's canner and get two of them going at the same time. It goes a lot faster that way!

Check back at this post...I'm going to add a link to a blog post i wrote on Vaughnshire about the green beans last year...it has a picture in it of what it looked like.