Across
- 1. hedgerow favourite
- 6. they bloom
- 8. Deadly fungi
- 15. type of bean, strawberries grow them
- 16. love your garden’s Alan
- 17. Drinking to the health of the orchard
- 24. winter sleep
- 25. gardeners world’s Francis
- 26. Shortest day of the year
- 28. greater or lesser spotted
- 29. Xmas plant indigenous to Mexico & Central America
Down
- 1. To come into one’s own
- 2. cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower
- 3. A cryptic clue to sieve the soil
- 4. a place for newts to hibernate
- 5. potatoes and tomatoes foe
- 7. prickly decoration
- 9. bean family
- 10. natural compost activator
- 11. layered over beds to prevent weeds
- 12. fallen fruit
- 13. not evergreen
- 14. bees do this well
- 18. the season of reds oranges and browns
- 19. fixed by pea roots
- 20. comes back every year
- 21. natural fertiliser
- 22. naturally occurring starch in apples and pears
- 23. slug eating solitary creature
- 27. acidic compost