Starting the Vegetable Garden

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb (plural) (6)
  2. 3. Seed of a pea plant used for food (plural) (4)
  3. 6. Any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more ___ (10)
  4. 8. Southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves (7)
  5. 9. Marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small (8)
  6. 13. Widely cultivated plant having a large fleshy edible white or yellow root (plural) (7)
  7. 14. Any of various plants of the genus Lactuca (7)

Down

  1. 1. Mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable (plural) (8)
  2. 4. Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits (6)
  3. 5. Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food (plural) (5)
  4. 7. A cruciferous plant of the genus Raphanus having a pungent edible root (plural) (8)
  5. 10. Orange vegetables that rabbits love (7)
  6. 11. Yellow vegetable that grows in ears (4)
  7. 12. Aromatic herb with flat or crinkly leaves that are cut finely and used to garnish food (7)