Tonight on Grow Cook Eat, we're learning to make raised beds in the garden - check out the video above.
Presented by Michael Kelly and Karen O’Donohoe, each episode of Grow Cook Eat teaches us how to grow a particular vegetable from sowing the seed to harvesting and cooking.
Although it’s hard to beat the nostalgic crunch of a head of lettuce, most of us have come to expect much more from our salads than crunch.
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Today, a top-notch salad contains many different colours, shapes, sizes, textures and flavours. As well as lettuces, it may also include the leaves of Arugula, Radicchio, Spinach, Cress, Mustards and Herbs.
As gardeners, we can choose from a rainbow of different lettuces, and dozens of unusual salad greens and speciality blends.
Elsewhere in this episode, Karen O’Donohoe is off to Cork to visit the Clonakilty Community Garden, originally set up to help local asylum seekers, and where growing their own food has been an amazing success.
At the end of each episode, we get a new recipe from one of the two chefs featured in the series: Jessica Murphy, from Kai Restaurant in Galway, and Jack Kirwan, owner of the Sprout chain of restaurants in Dublin.
Jack Kirwan created a 'Stupidly Green Salad with a Trio of Dressings’ - get the written recipe here.
Watch Grow Cook Eat on RTÉ One every Wednesday at 7:30pm and you catch up on episodes on the RTÉ Player here. For more info on the series, head over to www.growcookeat.ie
