The Garden Crossword

2. A form of obsidian characterized by spherulites formed by cracking of the volcanic glass during cooling.
4. A technique of plant propagation where the new plant remains at least partially attached to the other mother plant while forming new roots.
6. Grows for a long season, often in the fall, then they die in freezing weather.
9. Taking place every year. It takes two years for a plant to complete its life cycle.
10. Take up water/nutrients for plants.
12. The seed of a plant consisting of reproductive parts.
16. It means trimming or cutting away dead stems.
17. A mature, ripened ovary, along with the contents of the ovary.
19. Culture: The cultivation of plant cells, tissues or organs, on specially formulated nutrient media.
20. A substance whose roots grow and extract water and nutrients.
22. The main part of the plant.
23. A way to skip the soil, sub in a different material to support the roots of the plant.
25. Any species, strain, or biotype of plant, animal, or pathogenic agent injurious to plants or plant products.
28. Growing plants without using any soil at all.
30. The production of aquatic organisms under controlled conditions throughout part of their life cycle.

1. A flat green looking blade thing.
3. Any plant part that is used for food.
5. Organic cultivation of plants or animals together in a re circulation closed system.
7. A simple vegetative propagation for plants that produce suckers, bulbs, tubers or rhizomes.
8. The upper area on earth where plants usually grow, it's usually black or brown.
11. A natural mineral that is often placed in potting soil to enhance growth by boosting aeration.
13. A process which uses sunlight, water, carbon dioxide to create oxygen and energy.
14. Essential elements that plants use the growth, development and reproduction.
15. Cutting a stem or leaf, or root using a vegetative propagation.
18. A pruning method generally used on young plants to encourage branching..
21. Lasting or existing for a long or apparently an infinite time.
24. Moss: A large absorbent moss that grows in dense masses on boggy ground, where the lower parts decay and decompose.
26. Vegetative propagation technique that connects two severed plant segments means.
27. engineering: It copies a gene or genes from an organism with a desired trait and adds the gene/genes to a single plant cell.
29. It is inserting a single bud from a desirable plant into the opening in the bark of a compatible root stock to create an advantageous variety.