Possible Clues:

• Fine words don't butter them
• Root vegetables
• Soup flavorers
• Norm takes short cuts from the allotment
• 'Fine words butter no . . . . . . . .'
• Spin spar around the vegetables
• Cousins of carrots
• Snip spar, oddly, of the vegetables
• Fine words butter no — (proverb)
• Veg not quite trim, needing little cuts