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Kitchen garden   /kˈɪtʃən gˈɑrdən/   Listen
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Garden  n.  
1.
A piece of ground appropriated to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.
2.
A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. "I am arrived from fruitful Lombardy, The pleasant garden of great Italy." Note: Garden is often used adjectively or in self-explaining compounds; as, garden flowers, garden tools, garden walk, garden wall, garden house or gardenhouse.
Garden balsam, an ornamental plant (Impatiens Balsamina).
Garden engine, a wheelbarrow tank and pump for watering gardens.
Garden glass.
(a)
A bell glass for covering plants.
(b)
A globe of dark-colored glass, mounted on a pedestal, to reflect surrounding objects; much used as an ornament in gardens in Germany.
Garden house
(a)
A summer house.
(b)
A privy. (Southern U.S.)
Garden husbandry, the raising on a small scale of seeds, fruits, vegetables, etc., for sale.
Garden mold or Garden mould, rich, mellow earth which is fit for a garden.
Garden nail, a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick walls.
Garden net, a net for covering fruits trees, vines, etc., to protect them from birds.
Garden party, a social party held out of doors, within the grounds or garden attached to a private residence.
Garden plot, a plot appropriated to a garden.
Garden pot, a watering pot.
Garden pump, a garden engine; a barrow pump.
Garden shears, large shears, for clipping trees and hedges, pruning, etc.
Garden spider, (Zool.), the diadem spider (Epeira diadema), common in gardens, both in Europe and America. It spins a geometrical web. See Geometric spider, and Spider web.
Garden stand, a stand for flower pots.
Garden stuff, vegetables raised in a garden. (Colloq.)
Garden syringe, a syringe for watering plants, sprinkling them with solutions for destroying insects, etc.
Garden truck, vegetables raised for the market. (Colloq.)
Garden ware, garden truck. (Obs.)
Bear garden, Botanic garden, etc. See under Bear, etc.
Hanging garden. See under Hanging.
Kitchen garden, a garden where vegetables are cultivated for household use.
Market garden, a piece of ground where vegetable are cultivated to be sold in the markets for table use.


Kitchen  n.  
1.
A room equipped for cooking food; the room of a house, restaurant, or other building appropriated to cookery. "Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot." "A fat kitchen makes a lean will."
2.
A utensil for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen.
3.
The staff that works in a kitchen.
Kitchen garden. See under Garden.
Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. (Obs.) "A brazen tub of kitchen lee."
Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans.





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"Kitchen garden" Quotes from Famous Books



... grief and horror. The baby had six fingers. Grigory was so crushed by this, that he was not only silent till the day of the christening, but kept away in the garden. It was spring, and he spent three days digging the kitchen garden. The third day was fixed for christening the baby: mean-time Grigory had reached a conclusion. Going into the cottage where the clergy were assembled and the visitors had arrived, including Fyodor Pavlovitch, who was to stand god-father, he suddenly announced that the baby "ought ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... years old. Johnson had learned gardening in the old country, and had followed it two years in the new. He was then employed in a market gardener's greenhouse; but he wanted to change from under glass to out of doors, and to have charge of a lawn, shrubs, flowers, and a kitchen garden. He spoke brokenly, but intelligently, had an honest eye, and looked to me like a real "find." Polly, who was to be his immediate boss, was pleased with him, and we took him with the understanding that he was to make himself generally useful until the time came for his special line of work. We ...
— The Fat of the Land - The Story of an American Farm • John Williams Streeter
... great moment in the future when the pond is at last full. What will happen then? Aldenham may know, but we his guests do not. Some think there will be merely a flood over the surrounding paths and the kitchen garden, but for myself I believe that we are promised something much bigger than that. A man with such a broad and friendly outlook towards rain-gauges will be sure to arrange something striking when the great moment arrives. ...
— Not that it Matters • A. A. Milne
... passed around the left of the house, following the remains of a path which led him to a door in an ell. Back here there were gnarled apple and pear and cherry trees, a tropical clump of rhubarb, and traces of what had evidently been at one time a kitchen garden. Old-fashioned perennials blossomed here and there; lupins and Sweet Williams and other sturdy things which had resisted the encroachment of the grass. The key fitted readily, scraped back, and the ...
— The Lilac Girl • Ralph Henry Barbour
... considerable distance. They included on one side a kitchen garden and a vineyard, and on the other, to give the effect of what the French call an English garden, a wood had been considered a necessary requisite. It was cut out in walks, one of which led to the ferme and another to the hermitage, so that the garden may be said to have possessed every requisite ...
— The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope v. I. • A. M. W. Stirling (compiler)


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