Pat and Joe settled for a warm drink. Helen wasn't going to succumb to temptation but Martyn, Beth and Alice tucked in to inappropriately named croissants (they were straight not the traditional crescent shape that gives the pastries their name). Neil had disappeared somewhere into the gloom on his plot! Was he digging or trying to find a carrot for the carrot competition. Would Daragh come or not?

In the end, Helen couldn't resist Joe's plum, fig (and anything else that he had to hand) jam. It was getting lighter but still no word from Daragh.

Good news Daragh is on his way hotfoot from Bradford. But where is Neil? Digging at this hour? Surely not. Daragh tells us that the radio signal was best from the top of the site and so we had to hurriedly decamp.

Daragh arrives at last and sets up his helter skelter (so named by Beth and Alice).

Neil is back, Joe was sent on a reconnaissance mission to locate him. Sue was given some stylish headgear ready for the first (which should have been the second slot) at 8:30ish. It's weird listening to a radio show through headphones and trying to carry out a conversation at the same time but someone had to educate Daragh into the intricacies of the vegetable growers world. That isn't a jar of peaches it is yellow beetroot. The first slot is soon over. The day of the visit, the breakfast show was covering how much unnecessary packaging supermarkets use. Sue pointed out that our vegetables only have the packaging they were born with and what's more are locally produced so have a small carbon footprint. Daragh showed his skill at identifying the vegetables on display.

The second BBC Radio Leeds presenter Trevor Gibbons arrived after being sent in the wrong direction by Daragh. Trevor was going to judge our carrot competition and do something amazing with one of Martyn's cabbages.

Beth and Alice took turns at listening in to the breakfast show whilst mum Helen tried to keep well away from the reporters.

It didn't work did it Helen? During our second slot at 8:55, Helen found herself discussing her manure heap with Daragh. Beth and Alice then introduced Daragh to their wildlife pond where the intrepid reporter demonstrated that his knowledge of all things vegetable was only surpassed by his knowledge of pond life. No Daragh a newt isn't a reptile and that thing that looks like a stone ... well it is a stone!

The time draws near for Trevor to relieve us of the suspense and demonstrate his expertise with a cabbage. Is he going to carve it into a cabbage rose or create and amazing salad? Can't be a stir fry as no pan is in evidence. What does he do? Explain that in Hollywood they punch cabbages to simulate the sound of someone being thumped. That cabbage was grown with tender loving care not to be thumped by Trevor but to satisfy our stomachs!

Never noticed the mist creeping in as Trevor sets his expert eye on the carrots and prepares to judge the carrot competition.

He disregarded the carrots with two or three legs as being distasteful and also the yellow carrots - such a traditionalist! He selected the carrot that Jan sent along to represent him. I thought they had sent us a vegetable expert! Can't he spot the insect damage? Sorry Trevor try again!! Yes that's a much better choice - it's Beth's carrot - well OK Beth didn't grow it but she did adopt it and now loves it as her own.

That is the end of the show, the helter skelter is wound down. It's amazing where it goes. Daragh and Trevor have a tour of the site and promise that they will be back.

We hope so!

Thanks to all those who got up early on a cold misty autumn morning to take part - even if it was much shorter than we had expected.

Thanks also to Daragh for dashing across from Bradford so that the show could go on! What a pro! I think I would have been lynched if he hadn't arrived after coaxing everyone prematurely from their warm beds!

Thanks also to Trevor even though he punched our cabbage! I hope the NSPCC don't find out. No not that NSPCC but the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Cabbages.