2011 Edinburgh Fringe

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The vegetable cultivation-based musical comedy show everyone is talking about down the allotment.

What exactly is the point of slugs? How do you make perfect compost? Why is Alan Titchmarsh so attractive to women? Find answers to all these questions and more in Can You Dig It? the musical comedy show about the joys and pitfalls of growing your own.

Sprouting from the fertile brains of comedy songwriters and real-life allotment gardeners Jo Stephenson and Dan Woods, Can You Dig It? features a wheelbarrow-load of songs on topics including pests, an evil pigeon called Derrick, annoying allotment neighbours, vegetable theft and digging (of course).

Highlights of the show, which is on at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, include a rap duel between an angry gardener and a slug, Gardeners' Question Time as you have never heard it before - Eurodance-style, and a 1980s-style power ballad to everyone's favourite cuddly gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh.

Can You Dig It? will appeal to both vegetable-growing novices and seasoned cultivators, as Jo and Dan delve into the mysterious and competitive world of vegetable shows, launch a campaign to give sprouts the recognition they deserve, and ask: John Innes - who is he?

With more and more people in the UK growing their own, Can You Dig It? is both timely and topical. There's even a song for people who don't like vegetables, poor things.

Jo Stephenson and Dan Woods are familiar faces on London's comedy and cabaret scene and keen amateur gardeners. Jo has an allotment in north west London, while Dan has an allotment in south east London.

Dan has performed his accordion-based comedy shows to critical acclaim in Edinburgh and across the UK both solo and with his band Pig With The Face of a Boy. His song A Complete History of the Soviet Union, arranged to the melody of Tetris has become an internet sensation with more than 1.5 million hits on YouTube (Watch). His favourite vegetable is the classic carrot. www.danwoods.co.uk

Jo plays the ukulele and performs her extensive repertoire of original comic songs at venues across the UK. Her music has featured on BBC Radio 4 and she recently launched her first album. Her favourite vegetable is the globe artichoke. www.jostephensonsings.com