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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



... for a small boy!" she said. She took it to please him. Then the rooster flew out of the hen-house, and, shouting to Archer to shut the door into the kitchen garden, Mrs. Flanders set her meal down, clucked for the hens, went bustling about the orchard, and was seen from over the way by Mrs. Cranch, who, beating her mat against the wall, held it for a moment suspended while she observed to Mrs. Page next door that Mrs. Flanders was in the orchard ...
— Jacob's Room • Virginia Woolf
... lily of the valley (bulbs obtainable from sir James W. Mackey (Limited) wholesale and retail seed and bulb merchants and nurserymen, agents for chemical manures, 23 Sackville street, upper), an orchard, kitchen garden and vinery protected against illegal trespassers by glasstopped mural enclosures, a lumbershed with ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... passions which seemed, like the Wardour Street ancestors, to fill the place—it came home to me what consolation there can be in the friendship of one small corner of grace or beauty. During those dreary days in Scotland, the friendliness and consolation were given me by the old kitchen garden, with its autumn flower borders, half hiding apple trees and big cabbages and rhubarbs, and the sheep-dotted hill, and the beeches sloping above its red fruit walls. I slipped away morning and evening to it as to a friend. Not as to an old one; ...
— Hortus Vitae - Essays on the Gardening of Life • Violet Paget, AKA Vernon Lee
... Our soil will appreciate the sand or silt from the drifts along the valley streams, as it has proven to be one of the best fertilizers known. If anyone doubts this let him try a quantity of it on his kitchen garden. ...
— Walnut Growing in Oregon • Various
... barnyard and came up through the kitchen garden where rows of cauliflower and cabbage and tomatoes alternated with pansies and mignonette and scarlet salvia. Every bed of onions was fringed with sweet alyssum, and rows of beets were flanked with rosemary ...
— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith


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