29 JUNE 2019AMATEUR GARDENING 47Crossword
Pease be with you ...just for fun!
ACROSS
1 Stone essentials for an
outdoor alpine area, it
could be said! (5)
3 One does this to
greenhouse glazing to clean
it, or remove paint-on
shading in autumn (5)
7 I lay currant, and even
the subjects of this
week’s Miscellany, to
demonstrate such kitchen
skills! (8,3) (anag)
8 Periods when private
institutions are opened to the
masses, such as the
Thursday, Friday and
Saturday of Chelsea Flower
Show week each year! (6,4)
9 The subjects of this
week’s Miscellany! (6,4)
13 Pea exit? Push to the
fume-emitting end of a
petrol engine! (7,4)
14 Old name for the subjects
of this week’s Miscellany! (5)
15 Sky-high object – and
‘_____ Flash’, a cultivar of
hemerocallis (5)DOWN
1 State again as a
summary, or even put
the top back on a bottle
of fertiliser! (5)
2 Genus of summer
flowers, formerly known
as a strain of petunia
called ‘Million Bells’ (11)
4 Genus of frost-tender
ferns, including the stag-
horn and elk-horn
ferns (11)
5 Tubers (potatoes) or
small bulbs (onions or
shallots) used for
planting (4)
6 Soft mineral of a soapy
feel and a greenish,
whitish, or greyish colour,
as in Calceolaria talcana (4)
10 Direction, as in
Crocosmia x crocosmiiflora
‘Star of the ____’ (4)
11 Unlike the subjects of
this week’s Miscellany,
lathyrus are this type! (5)
12 Pile or mass, as in
compost (4)Patsy’s peas!
ACTRESS and singer Patsy
Kensit, known for her roles in
Emmerdale and Holby City
(and in Lethal Weapon 2 with
Mel Gibson), started her
career advertising peas! In
1973, at the age of just four,
she landed her first televised role in an advert for Birds Eye
frozen peas. In 2012, she returned to the company to mark
the 65th anniversary of Birds Eye’s first pea harvest.
In the original commercial, viewers saw a cheeky little
Patsy making a pop noise with a finger in her mouth.
ANSWERS TO ABOVE CROSSWORD1 Rocks 3 Wipes 7 Culinary art 8 Public days 9 Garden peas 13 Exhaust ACROSSpipe 14 Pease 15 Comet1 Recap 2 Calibrachoa 4 Platycerium 5 Sets 6 Talc 10 East 11 SweetDOWN12 HeapWow! I didn’t
know that...
When a pea plant has
been harvested, don’t lift it
immediately. After a week or
two, cut the top growth off and
compost it. Leave the roots
in situ, and later dig them in.
Nitrogen in the roots breaks
down into the soil, and helps a
following leafy crop, such as any of the brassica family.
Around 500BC, street vendors in Athens were known
to sell heated pea soup.
DID you know that the pea was
originally called pease (as in pease
pudding, see right, a savoury dish
made of boiled peas and beans,
typically with added seasoning
and spices, and often cooked
with a ham). However, because
most plurals end with an ‘s’, we
gradually began to interpret pease
as a plural, therefore dropping the ‘s’
sound when talking of the singular –
hence ‘pea’! Incidentally, ‘pease’ originates from the Latin
word pisum, the genus name.
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Pease be with you
(as in pease
pease
as a plural, therefore dropping the ‘s’
sound when talking of the singular –
World’s best joke
about pea soup!
In a London police station in the 1950s:
Superintendent:We must go and investigate the murder,
but there’s a really thick fog out there.
Sergeant: Pea souper?
Superintendent: No thanks Sergeant, I went just now!
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