kitchen garden

American  

noun

1. a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.

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kitchen garden British  

noun

1. a garden where vegetables and sometimes also fruit are grown

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Other Word Forms

• kitchen gardener
  noun

Etymology

Origin of kitchen garden

First recorded in 1570–80

Example Sentences

Colorful ceramic fruits, vegetables and flowers mingle on a table covered with myriad serving vessels, all handbuilt in Payawal’s studio, which looks out into her abundant kitchen garden.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

As spring approaches, I’m looking forward to starting a small kitchen garden with herbs and edible flowers, ready to nurture something new.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2025

Joe Richomme is the head of the kitchen garden at Kew Gardens in west London.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2024

Those words capture what I wanted my kitchen garden to create: proximity between food and land; the camaraderie of loved ones cooking and eating together; and the delight of sharing what I’d grown.

From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2023

But then it hadn’t, and anyway he loved the dog fennel and the silver poplars and the hedge of lilacs on the south that separated Jenny’s well-drained kitchen garden from the dooryard.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt