Vegetables

2. the science of vegetable growing dealing with the culture on non herbaceous plants for food
4. a specialist in olericulture
7. the rapid removal of heat from freshly harvested vegetables
9. the process or technique of arresting the ripening of fruits and vegetables after harvesting by immersion in ice or cold water
13. Having little or no rain; too dry or barren to support vegetation
14. a flowering plant with an embryo that bears a single cotyledon seed leaf

1. of a region or climate dry but having slightly more rain than an arid region or climate
3. a plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed within a carpel
5. a plant that has or is to be transplanted
6. dicot a flowering plant with an embryo that bears two cotyledons seed leaves
8. the introduction of air into a material
10. Manure, a fertilizer consisting of growing plants that are plowed back into the soil
11. gardening, a place where vegetables and fruit are grown for sale
12. cropping, a vegetable crop that is grown in truck farming lettuce is a truck crop in california