From seedling to harvest

Gardening word search

A paper potter around the garden: tools, soil, growing structures and the quiet work between planting and harvest.

Gardening word search · seed quiet-1

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Gardening word search

12 words · 14 × 14

Find each word in a straight line. Look in all eight directions, including backwards.

TWKTQORGDSGBXU
RCESBLUBSBTLYO
OOWGHHEDAXROVF
WMAPVAWUNVEBOY
EPTLEORKGBLASO
LOEADRLVRLLSEZ
CSRRFKEXELIBEB
XTIULXCNESSUDP
XWNLUCNMNMTPLR
QDGOWKKUHIXVIU
HTFAOXYLOMALNN
YNQMDYICUOGLGI
RCZEPTTHSBLGBN
QKOOTCXPEHVZBG
  • COMPOST
  • SEEDLING
  • TROWEL
  • MULCH
  • PRUNING
  • TRELLIS
  • HARVEST
  • BULBS
  • WATERING
  • LOAM
  • PERENNIAL
  • GREENHOUSE

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Gardening word search — solution

12 words · 14 × 14

Marked letters show the hidden words. Use the coordinates below when words overlap.

TWKTQORGDSGBXU
RCESBLUBSBTLYO
OOWGHHEDAXROVF
WMAPVAWUNVEBOY
EPTLEORKGBLASO
LOEADRLVRLLSEZ
CSRRFKEXELIBEB
XTIULXCNESSUDP
XWNLUCNMNMTPLR
QDGOWKKUHIXVIU
HTFAOXYLOMALNN
YNQMDYICUOGLGI
RCZEPTTHSBLGBN
QKOOTCXPEHVZBG
  • COMPOST
  • SEEDLING
  • TROWEL
  • MULCH
  • PRUNING
  • TRELLIS
  • HARVEST
  • BULBS
  • WATERING
  • LOAM
  • PERENNIAL
  • GREENHOUSE

Start positions (row, column; top left is 1,1): GREENHOUSE (5,9) · PERENNIAL (4,4) · SEEDLING (5,13) · WATERING (3,3) · COMPOST (2,2) · PRUNING (8,14) · TRELLIS (2,11) · HARVEST (3,5) · TROWEL (1,1) · MULCH (9,8) · BULBS (2,8) · LOAM (9,4)

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Default puzzle downloads: US Letter PDF · A4 PDF · Puzzle + answer, two pages.

Inside this garden

Look for COMPOST, SEEDLING, TROWEL, MULCH, PRUNING, TRELLIS, HARVEST, BULBS, WATERING, LOAM, PERENNIAL and GREENHOUSE. The list follows the work of a garden, from soil preparation to growing and gathering. It avoids plant names that need specialist spelling knowledge.

A few words to notice

A trellis supports climbing growth. Loam is a soil texture term. Perennial describes a plant that lives for more than two years. Those longer words give the grid a different rhythm from short entries such as bulbs and mulch. This is a vocabulary puzzle, not a source of growing instructions.

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Print the same seed for everyone if you want to compare where words were found. Choose different seeds for individual sheets. The list stays the same, while placement and filler letters change. Keep the separate answer page with each seed; a solution from another grid will not match.