Started harvesting from the garden yesterday. The early crops, turnip greens, both rows, all 120 feet of them, were harvested, cleaned and canned. From start to finish, 2 canner loads, it took about 7 hours. It's hard to believe, but pints take about 70 minutes to process, quarts take 90 minutes, the time it takes to clean and sterilize jars, to cut the hard spine from the greens,then 5 minutes blanch time, then the 10 minutes steam time before the actual processing time begine and it adds up to at least about 2-2 1/2 hours per canner load Whew! I've never grown greens before, much less canned them. It was an eye opening lesson for me! The harvest yielded 15 pints of turnip greens. I keep thinking how healthy they are, chock full of vitamins A, C, K, Calcium and lutein (great for the eyes) and are low in calories, unless you fix them the good old southern way with bacon drippings or salt pork. It makes the canning process or should I say labor of love, well worth the effort.

Since I'm the only one in the household who eats these, I suppose they'll last a couple of seasons.