HOME GROWN

Wednesdays at 8:30pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player

The Third Series of Home Grown, the RTÉ programme celebrating the Irish horticulture industry, arrives in Spring 2025. The series is presented by two of the sector’s dedicated advocates, Kitty Scully and Colm O’Driscoll, and is proudly sponsored by Bord Bia.

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Tune into HOME GROWN on RTÉ One every Wednesday at 8:30pm.

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Series 2 Episode 6

Colm visits Windyridge Garden Centre in Dun Laoghaire while Kitty headed off to Ireland's premier horticulture event, Bord Bia Bloom, last Summer to see how one young designer establishes himself in the small world of garden design.

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Series 2 Episode 5

Colm travels to the National Biodiversity Data Centre in Waterford to learn how to deal with nature's unwanted guests; Kitty returns to North Dublin to meet the McNally family, one of the countries longest established organic growers.

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Series 2 Episode 4

Kitty meets mushroom producers Joe and Dolores in Offaly, before heading to Schram Plants, Kildare, while Colm visits Keoghs Potato Farm in North Dublin and Kylemore Abbey in Connemara.

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Series 2 Episode 3

Kitty heads to Ratoath to meet gardening influencer, Niall McCauley to see the impact that online social media influencers are having on gardening, while Colm heads to Meade Farm to learn about potato starch & to Connemara to learn about seaweed.

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Series 2 Episode 2

Colm heads to Dublin City Centre to look at the greening revolution in our capital city, while Kitty is in the heart of vegetable production country in North County Dublin.

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Series 2 Episode 1

Colm heads to Adare Manor in Limerick which will welcome the prestigious Ryder Cup golf tournament in 2027 while Kitty is in Dunsany in County Meath visiting McCormack Family Farms.

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Series 1 Episode 1

Kitty Scully and Colm O'Driscoll go in search of stories that celebrate Irish horticulture and growing in all its varieties, beginning at Croke Park.

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Series 1 Episode 2

Colm O' Driscoll visits Flynn Tomatoes in Swords to see a third-generation grower's latest growing technology in action. Kitty Scully is in Scariff in Co Clare, discovering how the Irish Seeds Savers Association preserve our heirloom and indigenous seeds.

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Series 1 Episode 3

Kitty Scully heads to Enrich in Kilcock in Co Meath where she sees how valuable compost is made from waste products. Colm O'Driscoll is also in the county as he visits Summerhill Lawns in Trim.

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Series 1 Episode 4

This episode celebrates the great Irish potato as Colm starts this programme with a visit to specialist farmer David Loughran from Louth, who provides seed potatoes for other farmers to plant.

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Series 1 Episode 5

Kitty Scully visits the Rare and Special Plant Fair at Fota House and Gardens, Co Cork, to meet some of the nurserymen and women who breed these unusual plants.

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Series 1 Episode 6

Kitty Scully visits Bord Bia Bloom, Ireland's largest food, drink and horticulture festival, and discovers what's on offer to the newest generation of garden enthusiasts. Colm O'Driscoll heads to Galway to meet an organic farmer who twenty years ago hoped that Ireland would become fully organic.

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Series 1 Episode 7

Kitty travels to Clonakilty to meet Réidín Beattie who grows and dries her own plants and uses them to make skincare products. Colm travels to Kilkenny where Pat Fitzgerald of Beotanics has managed to grow wasabi in Ireland, which is a real achievement as it’s one of the hardest plants to grow.

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