I absolutely LOVE, love , love to can, and freeze, and so forth. We have a large garden area9s) in our property as well, and since we live in the mountains, where winters can be very hard here in eastern Oregon, I can most of what we plant.. Beans, peas, potatoes, beets, carrots, turnips, parsnips, tomatoes, onions, peppers of all kinds.. okra, radishes, lettuces, spinach, chard, cabbages, and on and on.. love every bit of it except the weeding, which I refuse to can or freeze.. lol!!