Romsey Allotment Crossword No 1.

2. To remove a number of buds, flowers, seedlings or shoots to improve the growth and quality of those remaining
4. A tree or shrub that has been trained to a certain height with a long bare stem and foliage at the top
8. A plant that is bred or selected by growers for unique flowers, leaf colour, growing habit etc. It has distinct and uniform characteristics that differ from the original species
14. Used to describe plants that like acid soil and will not tolerate alkaline soils (containing lime or chalk)
15. To flower and produce seed prematurely
16. Layer of material placed on the soil and around plants to retain moisture, suppress weeds and improve soil structure
20. The point at which a seed undergoes physical changes and begins to grow
21. Structure made of glass, plastic or horticultural fleece placed over a plant for protection or for forcing early crops
24. Another name for the leaves and stems of a potato plant
25. a small insectivorous passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family
28. A plant carefully trained to grow as one main stem, or occasionally two or three main stems, by removing side-shoots
29. Placing seed potatoes in a tray or egg box in a bright, cool but frost-free place to encourage them to sprout prior to planting

1. A plant that completes its entire life cycle (growth, reproduction, death) in one season
3. A plant that sheds its leaves each year
5. Swollen root or underground stem with storage tissue
6. Member of the Rose family which bears small red edible fruit
7. The transfer of pollen between flowers, which can be carried out by the wind, insects, animals or by hand
9. A trailing stem growing above ground and rooting at the nodes, where plantlets are produced
10. Traditional method of woodland management which takes advantage of the fact that many trees make new growth from the stump or roots if cut down.
11. Method for shaping trees, cropping the branches above head-height
12. A plant that completes its entire life cycle in two years, growing in the first year and reproducing and dying in the second
13. Uncultivated land
17. Calcium compounds, often applied to lower the pH of the soil
18. Where one plant is artificially joined to the rootstock of another so they eventually function as one plant
19. Plants that have been field-grown and are supplied in a dormant state with the soil removed
22. An underground storage organ with fleshy scale leaves from which the plant flowers and grows before becoming dormant
23. A cluster of flowers that lack petals typically seen on willow, oak, and birch trees
26. A shoot containing embryonic leaves or flowers
27. Broadleaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula