Page 15 - ALG Issue 2 2021

Young Plotters challenge
Grow your initials
The chlorophyll in leaves makes them green, but there are other pigments in leaves that
give them a variety of green hues or even reds and yellows – especially in autumn when the chlorophyll breaks down and the other pigments are revealed.
Our challenge to you is to lay out some crops
in your allotment bed so that we can see your initials. Email your images, age and contact details to diane@nsalg.org.uk by 3rd September. 3 winners will feature in the winter magazine and receive an age-appropriate gardening book.
SEED COMPETITION WINNERS
Millie Young – 11 Kayman Richards – 13 Isla-Rose Beeson – 8 Isobel Major – 14
Tyler Massingham – 13
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more! You can grow lots of herbs that you can use in cooking such as basil, thyme and mint! At our allotment we all swap seeds and plants because
we sometimes plant too many! It’s great because we get to grow some vegetables that I don’t usually grow, like curly kale!
As you know I have chickens at my allotment. The best thing about having them is that they get me outside every day to look after them. At this time of the year, the girls are all laying eggs, which is great! Even our little bantam hens are laying which is awesome because their eggs are so small! Our plot neighbours love this time of the year because they always get fresh eggs from my happy hens!
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Crossword
Across
2 A Telegraph that likes climbing (7)
3 A staple ingredient of any stew or
casserole (5)
5 A main ingredient of Mexican food (4) 7 Everybody likes these with their
Christmas dinner (7,5)
9 The smallest vegetable (3)
10 Ding Dong and really hot (3,6)
13 A Thistle variety cultivated as a food (9)
15 A vegetable with its’ own Isle of Wight
festival (6)
16 Originally they weren’t this colour. (6)
Down
1 Green cabbage with large flowering head (8)
4 Summer and winter varieties (7) 6 Best grown in the dark (8)
8 A Halloween favourite (7)
9 Sir Walter Raleigh introduced these (6)
11 What Americans call a Aubergine (8)
12 Can be grown for sugar (4)
14 Small red and hot. (6)
Thanks to Wyn Marshall for the crossword.
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Answers.
Across; 2 Cucumber, 3 Onion, 5 Corn, 7 Brussel Sprout, 9 Pea, 10 Bell Pepper, 13 Artichoke, 15 Garlic, 16 Carrot. Down; 1 Broccoli, 4 Cabbage, 6 Mushroom, 8 Pumpkin, 9 Potato, 11 Eggplant, 12 Beet, 14 Radish