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1 These long green-skinned salad favourites should now be ready to harvest (9) 7 The __ Project created a global garden in a Cornish clay mine (4) 8 Quercus palustris is also known as __ oak (3) 9 ‘A Shropshire __’ is a vigorous rose with a fruity scent and large pink-peach blooms (3) 10 Fragrant __ odorata attracts bees to the summer garden (6) 12 Tall deciduous conifer whose needles drop in autumn (5) 13 The male reproductive parts of a flower (7) 16 Grow this dwarf hot chilli pepper on a sunny windowsill (6) 18 Genus of mat-forming plants better known as thrift (7) 19 Common name for Achillea millefolium (6) 21 Salvia sylvestris ‘May __ ’ has gorgeous deep violet blooms (5) 22 ‘Red __‘ is a heritage cabbage variety dating back to 1860 (8) 23 Clarkia amoena, or __ flower (5)

1 __ matting is an efficient way to water greenhouse plants (9) 2 Latin name meaning grey, as in Eucalyptus __ (7) 3 After watering, lay a thick __ around the base of fruit trees to hold in moisture (5) 4 Watch for the signs of blossom __ __ on tomatoes (3,3) 5 Small, immature onion bulbs ready for planting (4) 6 Remove __ pods from sweet peas to prolong flowering (4) 11 Wildflower traditionally used to treat eye infections (9) 13 Marine algae that makes a nutritious, sustainable fertiliser (7) 14 The edible nuts produced by Prunus dulcis (7) 15 Dessert apple whose red skin deepens to maroon when ripe (7) 17 Flat-topped flower cluster where all the flowers are at the same level (6) 20 Sedum __

is better known as biting stonecrop (4)

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