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BensGarden Holiday Crossword

For Kiwi Gardeners
Test your fruit tree & gardening knowledge

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🍊 Tropical Fruits
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1. Organic layer spread on soil to retain moisture (5)
5. Orange with loose, baggy skin (8)
11. Fruit the same colour as Big Bird, grows in bunches and is bent (6)
12. NZ's favourite tangy green fruit, originally from South America (6)
14. Lychee-like fruit without the spikes (6 - use first 6 squares)
21. Tree where Tamarind Paste comes from (8)
22. Huge nut with milk and white meat inside (7)
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1. Ben's favourite tropical fruit (5)
2. BensGarden's top-selling tropical fruit tree (6)
7. Tropical fruit shaped like a star (9)
8. Australian native citrus shaped like a finger (10)
10. Black _____ is also known as chocolate pudding fruit (6)
🌱 Growing & Gardening
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15. Dwarf papaya variety that fruits well in warm NZ spots (7)
16. Helping plants to drink (8)
20. Joined to rootstock (7)
25. Plant containers (4)
26. Helps floppy trees grow more upright (5)
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4. After flowering, a fruit tree is _______ (8)
6. Early stage when a seed begins to grow (9)
13. Material laid down to stop weeds spreading (7)
18. Same answer as 4 Down (I couldn't think of anything else) (8)
19. It's a bean, and it's ice-cream and monkeys love it (4)
23. Main root that grows straight down (7)
24. A small fruit seed (3)
26. Shape you get when you cut across a carambola (4)
27. If you sow, then you can harvest, or ___ (4)
🌏 Places & Origins
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9. A country, one of the great origins of durian (8)
28. Which country does the lychee originate from? (5)
29. Garden tool used to move soil or plants (6)
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3. Country where mangoes originated (5)
17. Place where planes take off and land (7)