About the theme

Vegetable Garden runs from supermarket-everyday (carrot, onion, lettuce, broccoli) through to the farmers'-market specialist (cauliflower, asparagus, eggplant, zucchini, artichoke). The shorter entries (kale, okra, corn, yam, leek) tile through the filler; the eight-and-up words anchor the bigger grids. A green-leafy theme that plays calm. The filler reads as you'd expect — heavy on the common vowels of garden vocabulary, with a sprinkling of K and B.