Far from humble, the potato is a great source of nutrition, and surely the most versatile vegetable in terms of how it can be cooked.

Grow, Cook, Eat

The Potato

Unfortunately, most of the imported supermarket tomatoes we buy taste of absolutely nothing at all. It is not until you grow your own that you realise this!

Tomatoes – A Meal in Themselves

Garlic is relatively easy to grow and stores extremely well. It's also incredibly good for you. The garlic requirements of an average family can be easily satisfied by even the smallest vegetable patch, or container.

Garlic

Many people have an aversion to beetroot because the only way they have ever tasted it is boiled and drowned in vinegar! If this is your experience, it deserves a second chance as it is a fine root crop.

Beetroot

Carrots require a deep, light, stone free, fertile soil to do well. But if you get the soil right, you will be rewarded with a crunchy, sweet and flavoursome crop which will store well.

Carrots

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.

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

Pluto

Grow Cook Eat is a new series about how you can grow your own food: you can grow vegetables and fruit in a very small garden, or even in containers on an apartment balcony, you don't need half an acre or a polytunnel to do it.

Garlic

Full Episodes

Season 1, 7 episodes