Hard vegetables word search
Pūhā, taewa, kamokamo and Brussels sprouts: twenty-eight vegetables in an eighteen by eighteen grid, in all eight directions. For keen gardeners and anyone who has ever been told to finish their silverbeet.
- Asparagus
- Beetroot
- Broccoli
- Brussels sprouts
- Butternut
- Cabbage
- Capsicum
- Carrot
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Courgette
- Kamokamo
- Kohlrabi
- Kūmara
- Leek
- Lettuce
- Parsnip
- Pūhā
- Pumpkin
- Rhubarb
- Silverbeet
- Spinach
- Swede
- Sweetcorn
- Taewa
- Turnip
- Watercress
- Yams
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Make your own versionVegetables, extra hard
Name
| S | R | S | E | C | U | T | T | E | L | T | P | S | O | O | M | I | B |
| T | K | G | G | V | W | L | O | M | A | K | O | M | A | K | U | U | R |
| N | U | C | A | U | L | I | F | L | O | W | E | R | G | N | C | E | A |
| L | M | A | B | I | S | K | E | E | L | D | V | O | W | O | I | A | B |
| B | A | A | B | R | L | W | A | T | E | R | C | R | E | S | S | K | U |
| E | R | P | A | E | U | I | E | B | E | A | O | L | S | I | P | G | H |
| E | A | U | C | C | S | S | G | E | R | E | T | H | W | O | A | M | R |
| T | H | M | Y | O | S | P | S | T | T | O | B | I | E | A | C | E | P |
| R | U | P | A | U | A | E | U | E | R | C | C | R | D | F | Y | G | G |
| O | P | K | M | R | U | N | G | R | L | I | O | C | E | V | S | H | C |
| O | U | I | S | G | R | M | A | N | S | S | B | R | O | V | E | E | A |
| T | S | N | E | E | I | C | R | A | W | E | S | A | N | L | L | U | T |
| M | I | M | T | T | G | N | A | E | N | E | R | P | R | E | I | I | E |
| P | L | T | O | T | P | L | P | I | N | R | U | T | R | L | T | N | S |
| N | U | T | A | E | I | R | S | L | T | N | G | Y | M | O | H | H | P |
| B | L | I | N | E | U | E | A | C | M | N | S | H | I | M | U | O | X |
| F | R | S | K | A | W | H | C | A | N | I | P | S | E | S | E | T | K |
| V | U | G | I | S | O | A | E | U | T | A | R | N | U | T | H | F | S |
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- Asparagus
- Beetroot
- Broccoli
- Brussels sprouts
- Butternut
- Cabbage
- Capsicum
- Carrot
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Courgette
- Kamokamo
- Kohlrabi
- Kūmara
- Leek
- Lettuce
- Parsnip
- Pūhā
- Pumpkin
- Rhubarb
- Silverbeet
- Spinach
- Swede
- Sweetcorn
- Taewa
- Turnip
- Watercress
- Yams
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About this word search
A Kiwi veggie patch grows more than carrots and lettuce. Many gardens have a rhubarb crown in the corner and silverbeet that keeps going all year. Watercress grows wild in streams and is gathered as kai alongside pūhā, and Māori gardeners keep old varieties of taewa and kamokamo going. Yams here are not the tropical tuber but small, knobbly oca, roasted in winter.
The grid is eighteen by eighteen and words can run in all eight directions, including backwards. Brussels sprouts is the longest with fifteen letters, written as one block with no space, and it has a double S twice. Cauliflower has eleven, and silverbeet and watercress ten each. Yams, leek and pūhā are only four letters long and easy to overlook.
Use it as a seasons game: for each vegetable, guess whether it is planted in spring or in autumn. Check the answers in a garden guide or ask the most experienced gardener in the whānau.
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