Possible Clues:

• Worker of abstemious habit keeping animal in plant
• Best way, say, to produce salad ingredient
• Improve on way sound vegetable's produced
• Salad item
• Plant in circles - a better arrangement outside
• Insect gets to scamper around little old vegetable
• Better pack the eggs in with the vegetable
• Dark red salad ingredient
• Food always kept outside tradesmen's entrance in sack
• Dark red salad item