vegetable garden

vegetable garden (plural vegetable gardens)

1. A garden where vegetables and herbs are grown for personal or household use, sometimes inclusive of cold frames, greenhouses, and market gardens. (This entry is a translation hub.)
   • 1944, Miles Burton, chapter 5, in The Three Corpse Trick:

     The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.

• food garden, kitchen garden

• pleasure ground (section of a large garden not used for edible plants)
• market garden, truck garden (section of a large garden used for edible plants for sale)
• orchard (section of a large garden used for trees bearing edible fruit)