kitchen garden

noun

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

kitchen garden

noun

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

Derived Forms

• kitchen gardener, noun

Other Words From

• kitchen gardener noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of kitchen garden¹

First recorded in 1570–80

Example Sentences

Michelle Obama has followed in the footsteps of San Francisco—and Eleanor Roosevelt—with her White House kitchen garden.

From The Daily Beast

The kitchen-garden in the French provinces is by no means so contemptible as it has been described by some travellers.

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She looked out at her window and saw them walking up and down the long alley of the kitchen garden, like children, hand in hand.

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If anyone doubts this let him try a quantity of it on his kitchen garden.

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In 1884 kitchen garden work was added, Miss Emilie Underhill having charge of the department.

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You will hardly find a private kitchen garden, except on the isolated stations, where the gardener is nearly always a Chinaman.

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