Possible Clues:

• A yard, and in Ireland you get a stick of it
• A row with a little man that may be seen on an allotment
• Spears or shoots cat in dramatic situation
• A water and sugar concoction for vegetarians
• Vegetable having a well inverted carbohydrate
• Something sweet rejected as accompaniment for a spring vegetable
• Vegetable
• Shoots for dinner
• Snake with backing of sugar, a delicacy
• A fight with a severe blow would be more than enough for this spear-carrier