Name: Grow Cook Eat
Uploaded: 2020-07-07T20:56:37.000Z
Description: Michael Kelly and Karen O'Donohoe looks at the burgeoning interest in growing your own food.

Michael Kelly and Karen O'Donohoe looks at the burgeoning interest in growing your own food.

Indigenius

Michael and Karen show viewers how to grow Ireland's most popular vegetable, the potato.

The Potato

A homegrown tomato is a delectable treat and, while a little TLC is required, it's worth the effort.

Tomatoes - A Meal in Themselves

A look at growing garlic; a visit to Bloom; a school that has started a community garden.

Garlic

Beetroot is easy to grow, can be eaten all year and is very nutritious.

Beetroot

A look at how to grow crunchy, sweet and flavorsome carrots and how to cook and eat them.

Carrots

Michael Kelly shows how to make raised beds in the garden; Karen O'Donohoe visits the Clonakilty Community Garden; Jack Kirwan from SPROUT prepares a stupidly green salad with a trio of dressings.

Salads

Peas are almost never available in the shops fresh, always frozen. As soon as a pea is picked from the plant the sugars inside it start to turn to starch which means the flavour starts to deteriorate immediately.

Peas

In this first episode Michael and Karen focus on a household staple - the onion. Easy to grow and very low maintenance, both red and white varieties are sown in the raised bed with Karen holding back some of the sets for container growing.

Onions

In this second episode, Michael and Karen take a fresh look at the pumpkin and why it's a fantastic vegetable to grow, cook and eat during the year, rather than just buy, carve and dump at Halloween.

Pumpkins

This week's episode is all about the highs and lows of growing a more ambitious vegetable - in Michael and Karen's case, sweetcorn, and all they can say is third time lucky!

Sweetcorn

Courgettes are showcased, and Karen visits a community garden in Goleen, West Cork.

Courgettes

Kale is a highly nutritious vegetable thrives in both the raised bed and container.

Kale

Who knew French Beans were so easy to grow? Michael Kelly says French Beans are one of the most straightforward vegetables to grow - both the climbing green, and dwarf purple varieties, do really well in the glasshouse, raised bed and container.

French Beans

All about the chilli pepper, which is very hot, but also very easy to grow; Michael and Karen talk through five things growers need to do to prepare for the following growing season; chef Katie cooks Indian chilli pickle.

Chilli Peppers

Michael Kelly and Karen O'Donohoe talk about how to grow different types of vegetables; Karen shows how much an apartment balcony can produce, before setting off for Fota Wildlife Park; Michael hears about commercial onion-growing.

Broad Beans

Karen goes to Offaly with Wild Irish Foragers; Mick breaks down the mystery of composting.

Lettuce

The cucumber takes the spotlight as Karen shows how they can be grown outdoors in containers; Grow HQ becomes the hub for the chef's manifesto in Ireland, a chef-led UN program for Sustainable Development Goals.

Cucumber

Karen attempts to grow purple sprouting broccoli in a container, and travels to Hanako Flowers in West Cork; Michael gives a polytunnel masterclass.

Broccoli

Katie uses chard for a delicious breakfast; Michael is in Galway at Green Earth Organics; Karen visits the Oak Forest Mills in Kilkenny before heading to a Waterford bakery.

Chard

Karen meets the team at Slaney Farms in Wexford, where misshapen potatoes, deemed waste by supermarkets, are turned into award-winning Jackford Irish Potato Gin; at Grow HQ, cook Katie Sanderson whips up meringues with a few creative twists.

Strawberries

Karen agrees to grow celery despite her dislike of it, and also celeriac which she considers the "pug" of the vegetable world - so ugly that it's cute.

Grow Cook Eat

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