Grow Cook Eat

Season 2

Michael Kelly, founder of GIY (Grow It Yourself), and Karen O'Donohoe offer step-by-step guidance in growing vegetables in raised beds and containers. Each episode focuses on a single vegetable, and moves from seed, through thinning, watering, and potential problems, to the kitchen. A guest cook demonstrates 1-3 recipes anyone can replicate at home. The series is filmed in the brilliant landscape colors of Southern Ireland, but the gardening and cooking principles are universal.

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7 Episodes

  • Onions
    E1
    OnionsMichael 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.
  • Pumpinks
    E2
    PumpinksMichael 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.
  • Sweetcorn
    E3
    SweetcornAll 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!
  • Courgettes
    E4
    CourgettesHalfway through the series and it’s time to introduce the courgette or as Michael Kelly calls it, ‘The Vegetable of Mass Production’! Easy to grow in beds and containers so long as it is given plenty of milk (you read that right!), one plant can produce up to 40 courgettes. No wonder growers love to give them as presents at harvest time!
  • Kale
    E5
    KaleOnce a vegetable grown to feed cattle, but now a staple ingredient for juicers everywhere, Kale is the fifth vegetable to feature in this series. This highly nutritious vegetable thrives in both the raised bed and container – despite a pigeon attack that prompts Michael Kelly to cover each of the three varieties sown.
  • French Beans
    E6
    French BeansWho 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.
  • Chilli Pepper
    E7
    Chilli PepperIn this final programme of the second season, it’s all about the chili pepper, which is very hot, but also very easy to grow. Chef Katie Sanderson puts the presenters’ taste buds to the test with an Indian chilli pickle, tamarind sauce with yoghurt and poppadoms, and Karen O’Donohoe and Michael Kelly can just about stand the heat.

 

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