GREEN-fingered comic singer-songwriter Dan Woods’ show Can You Dig It? which he performs with fellow comedian Jo Stephenson, has been billed as the World’s best vegetable-cultivation-based musical comedy show.

Vibe caught up with the 32-year-old, who lives in Honor Oak Park and has an allotment in Forest Hill.

Which came first for you comedy or gardening?

When I was learning to play the accordion I put myself on the waiting list for my local allotments. I thought it was the sort of thing that an accordion player would do.

Why do you love gardening?

Nowadays we tend to live and work in sealed environments, especially in cities, and forget to notice that it's slowly turning us into madmen.
It's not that nice going outside in a hailstorm, but you feel a lot better afterwards.

What do you grow?

Weeds and slugs.

What’s your favourite veg?

The tomato. Your readers will now all write in and tell you that it's not a vegetable, it's a fruit.
If anyone says this I will fill their fruit salad with tomato ketchup.

What makes gardening a good topic for comedy?

It's the UK's most popular hobby.

On the other hand there's probably nothing that obviously funny about gardening in itself, so it forces us to work hard to find new angles. I think this gets a more interesting result.

Is there much of a scene out there for horticultural comedy?

I think our show is breaking, as it were, new ground, ho ho ho.

How easy is it to play a vegetable instrument?

We've done cucumber making workshops at primary schools, and the children have picked up the techniques straight away.

A vegetable instrument only lasts for a few hours out of the fridge, so you never really get a chance to practise. Luckily it's not important to play them very well.

What sort of people come to your shows?

In village halls we've had where the whole village turns up, and we've written it so that gardeners and non-gardeners will enjoy it.

Buy the Can You Dig It? CD album available at can-you-dig-it.co.uk