What Can I Use From My Garden Today?

@paigea (35513)
Canada
January 10, 2021 9:28am CST
This is what my garden looks like through my window right now. But I can still feed myself from it. I am making chicken pot pie. This will use up the stock from the carcass, and the rest of the meat. Potatoes and onions are in the cold room. Those will go in. Note to self- this is the last of the onions, put on shopping list. And plant more this year. Plenty of carrots, peas, corn and green beans in the freezer. Those will go in. Chicken pot pie is one of my favourite ways to use my garden produce. I am making a yam biscuit for the top. Note to self, try planting celery and yams this year.!
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@LadyDuck (455039)
• Switzerland
10 Jan 21
I never arrived to grow celery here, carrots and peas no problems, but the celery seems to dislike my garden.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
10 Jan 21
I tried celery at my old place, it was bitter and did not grow much. I will try again, just to see what happens.
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@LadyDuck (455039)
• Switzerland
10 Jan 21
@paigea I had very small celery plants and they were bitter too. I have to ask to a local gardener.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
10 Jan 21
@LadyDuck I am guessing they need a lot of water. I will talk to the local greenhouse in the spring.
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@DianneN (246452)
• United States
10 Jan 21
I have only grown peas, green beans, and carrots besides the usual tomatoes, lettuce, and peppers. Too bad the deer love them, too. Sounds delicious!
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@DianneN (246452)
• United States
11 Jan 21
@paigea That hurts! My husband always says they have to eat, too, but they can eat elsewhere in my book!
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
12 Jan 21
@DianneN Yes, lots of countryside around us. Leave my garden alone. The deer ate all the tulips too, I think.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
10 Jan 21
The deer have left our garden alone. The mole is our pest. And birds eating the berries. Something ruined our Honey Crisp Apple tree, so probably a deer.
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@snowy22315 (168443)
• United States
10 Jan 21
You mjust have a major garden.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
10 Jan 21
It's pretty big. A bit more work than I enjoy sometimes.
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@much2say (53699)
• Los Angeles, California
10 Jan 21
I'd like to grow chicken pot pies . Since we were new to trying to garden last year (lots of experimentation), this year we shall plant with purpose. You must have quite a garden and harvest!
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@much2say (53699)
• Los Angeles, California
15 Jan 21
@paigea Pizza . I'll have to see if I can get some menu select seeds from our favorite restaurants . I'm impressed with your gardening!!
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
15 Jan 21
@much2say Yes, seeds from a favourite restaurant are a great idea.
@paigea (35513)
• Canada
10 Jan 21
I like growing chicken pot pies, and pizza Our garden is fairly big.
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@CarolDM (203478)
• Nashville, Tennessee
11 Jan 21
A pretty scene. enjoy your dinner.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
11 Jan 21
Thank you. I love that dinner! Some left over individual ones in the freezer.
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@CarolDM (203478)
• Nashville, Tennessee
11 Jan 21
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@JimBo452020 (42639)
• United Kingdom
10 Jan 21
Just as well I read this post. Onions I need some. Making a curry and I had forgotten we had none so just as well I read this post. Hope the Chicken Pot Pie is a good one.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
10 Jan 21
It is always good. But now I want curry!
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
10 Jan 21
@JimBo452020 still learning to make a good curry.
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@JimBo452020 (42639)
• United Kingdom
10 Jan 21
@paigea Aye, it's 3 weeks since I last cooked a Curry.
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@RebeccasFarm (84408)
• Wheat Ridge, Colorado
10 Jan 21
You can make snow ice cream
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
10 Jan 21
Yes. We did that a time or two when I was a kid. One Christmas, I received a snocone machine. It was tedious and basically unsuccessful to grind up the ice cubes. My dad got tired of helping me and got snow from a big drift outside!
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• Wheat Ridge, Colorado
10 Jan 21
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@wolfgirl569 (93556)
• Marion, Ohio
11 Jan 21
Hope it turned out very good
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
24 Jan 21
I enjoyed it. It always turns out tasty.
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• Midland, Michigan
10 Jan 21
Yum. I made cuz soup this or last week and each day I've had some I've lost weight so I'm thinking of making more. But noon is from my garden. I like pot pies too and would enjoy one with you later.
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• Midland, Michigan
24 Jan 21
@paigea I have a recipe for a keto version but haven't made it yet.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
24 Jan 21
Sometimes I make chicken pot pie soup. Better for the waist line.
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@andriaperry (116876)
• Anniston, Alabama
10 Jan 21
That is the prepping i wrote about
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
10 Jan 21
It's nice to have the carrots already chopped, the corn already off the cob, etc. Just grab and throw in the pot!
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@NJChicaa (115621)
• United States
10 Jan 21
I've grown both. Yams are easy. The celery didn't do so well.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
10 Jan 21
I don't know why I have never tried yams. I hope they do well and are as easy to store as potatoes. Celery, I have not succeeded with either.
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@thelme55 (76376)
• Germany
10 Jan 21
I don´t like the smell of celery and so I don´t eat it. Your chicken pot pie sounds delicious.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
24 Jan 21
Interesting. Do you notice it when it is in a dish someone else cooked?
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
24 Jan 21
@thelme55 I am so lucky, I like everything!
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@thelme55 (76376)
• Germany
24 Jan 21
@paigea Yes, I noticed it especially when I have eaten a piece of it.
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@arunima25 (84953)
• Bangalore, India
10 Jan 21
Good that you have enough produce from your garden there. We get produce throughout year though some are seasonal. It's so fulfilling to harvest our garden grown produce.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
10 Jan 21
I enjoy using my harvest. Especially when I can just get what I want right out of the garden.
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• India
10 Jan 21
That's a yummy meal. Enjoy
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
10 Jan 21
Thank-you!
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• United States
26 Jan 21
Yam biscuit? I love chicken pot pie.
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• United States
26 Jan 21
@paigea Oh I thought maybe you did something like that. It sounds really delicious actually.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
26 Jan 21
That didn't make sense to lots of people. I add mashed yam to the biscuit dough. Makes a nice light flakey biscuit, hopefully a little healthier.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
26 Jan 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum it is delicious, IMHO. I used to have a doughnut recipe that had mashed yam in the dough also.
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@marlina (154183)
• Canada
10 Jan 21
My sister makes a delicious chicken pot pie too with lots of veggies
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@marlina (154183)
• Canada
24 Jan 21
@paigea , It sure does!
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
24 Jan 21
It seems to always turn out tasty!
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@moffittjc (118221)
• Gainesville, Florida
23 Jan 21
I love when I see people grow their own food! I hope you have a very productive garden once winter is over.
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@moffittjc (118221)
• Gainesville, Florida
26 Jan 21
@paigea We haven't had a seed shortage here in Florida that I've noticed. I was just in our local Home Depot and they had just set up their seed packets rack, and it was full of just about every kind of seed imaginable. But, like you said, so many more people are gardening now.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
23 Jan 21
I hope so. Apparently seed companies are selling out. So many more people are gardening!
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
26 Jan 21
@moffittjc we had trouble finding seed potatoes last spring.
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@Fleura (28950)
• United Kingdom
11 Jan 21
Sounds great! Unfortunately I have had to give up growing onions, leeks and garlic due to the arrival of 'allium leaf miner' a few years ago. I don't know how commercial growers manage - pesticides I guess.
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@Fleura (28950)
• United Kingdom
12 Jan 21
@paigea It's a real nuisance as so hard to protect crops from them and they damage the leaves and work their way down to the base/bulb. It means garlic and onions can't be stored (although they are ok to eat straight away) and leeks - which I'm rather fond of - are a total loss.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
24 Jan 21
@Fleura I better do my research.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
12 Jan 21
Oh. I hope we don't get that!
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@JudyEv (323748)
• Rockingham, Australia
12 Jan 21
That's great that you have been able to preserve things from your garden for the future.
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@JudyEv (323748)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Jan 21
@paigea I'm sure you do. I would too.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
25 Jan 21
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
24 Jan 21
I enjoy it!
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@LowRiderX (22912)
• Serbia
11 Jan 21
@paigea You can also take a good photo as you already did
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
11 Jan 21
Thank you. Actually, the sun rise was so red, but it was pale on the photo.
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@paigea (35513)
• Canada
12 Jan 21
@LowRiderX our yard is pretty flat, so that is me not holding the phone carefully That is a frozen pasture beyond our yard.
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@LowRiderX (22912)
• Serbia
11 Jan 21
@paigea You are welcome!! I know that 100% beauty cannot be transferred from live to photography.. is your garden on a gentle downhill? And is that part behind the bushes, water? It looks like a frozen lake..
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