Gardening Crossword

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A mixture of decaying vegetation and manure (7)
  2. 3. Something that is oriented ___ (8)
  3. 5. Any of various low perennial herbs with many runners and bearing white flowers followed by edible (10)
  4. 8. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food (plural) (5)
  5. 9. Any of various plants of the genus Lactuca (7)
  6. 11. A plant having a large edible head of crowded white flower buds (11)
  7. 12. Seed of a pea plant used for food (plural) (4)
  8. 13. Annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers (6)
  9. 14. Sweet food that grows on plants (5)

Down

  1. 1. Yellow vegetable that grows in ears (4)
  2. 2. Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable (plural) (8)
  3. 4. Supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc (10)
  4. 6. Plant whose succulent young shoots are cooked and eaten as a vegetable (9)
  5. 7. Stalks eaten raw or cooked or used as seasoning (6)
  6. 8. Plant with dense clusters of tight green flower buds (8)
  7. 10. A small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade (6)