Grow, Cook, Eat
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.
- 2019-2020
- 3 seasons
- Documentary
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.
Season 3 Episode Guide
7 Episodes 2020
Episode 1
Broad Beans
24 mins
Broad beans are this year's first crop to find a home in Grow HQ soil. This is an easy vegetable to grow, as long as you have a resident ladybird, a hose to keep the blackfly at bay, and a beer trap to distract any slugs for good measure.
Episode 2
Oriental Greens
Episode 3
Cucumber
Episode 4
Broccoli
23 mins
Karen attempts a world first by growing purple sprouting broccoli in a container. Michael puts her initial success down to good fortune and sure enough, trouble awaits.
Episode 5
Chard
23 mins
Michael Kelly and Karen O'Donohoe have an easy run with this week's star veg - robust and easy to grow, the colourful rainbow chard brings a prolific harvest. Katie Sanderson shows how equally simple it is to cook, wilting it on eggs for a quick and delicious breakfast.
Episode 6
Strawberries
23 mins
The first fruit to receive the Grow Cook Eat treatment in this third series is everyone's favourite Summer treat - the strawberry.
Episode 7
Celery and Celeriac
23 mins
The final crop of series three is a double header. 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!