What is "kitchen garden"

Garden \Gar"den\ (g[aum]r"d'n; 277), n. [OE. gardin, OF. gardin, jardin, F. jardin, of German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard an inclosure.]

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. --Shak. 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.

   1. A bell glass for covering plants.

   2. 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

      1. A summer house.
         --Beau. & Fl.

      2. 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.
         --Mortimer.

         Garden nail, a cast nail, used for fastening vines to brick walls.
         --Knight.

         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, (Zo["o]l.), the diadem spider ( Epeira diadema), common in gardens, both in Europe and Americ

         1. It spins a geometrical we

         2. 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, et

         3. Garden truck, vegetables raised for the market. [Colloq.]

            Garden ware, garden truck. [Obs.]
            --Mortimer.

            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 \Kitch"en\ (k[i^]ch"[e^]n), n. [OE. kichen, kichene, kuchene, AS. cycene, L. coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. Cuisine.]

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.
   --Dryden.

   A fat kitchen makes a lean will.
   --Franklin.

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.''
   --Ford.

   Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans.
   --Donne.

n. A garden used for growing fruit, vegetables and/or herbs for use in the kitchen.

n. a small garden where vegetables are grown [syn: vegetable garden, vegetable patch]

The traditional kitchen garden, also known as a potager (in French, jardin potager) or in Scotland a kailyaird, is a space separate from the rest of the residential garden – the ornamental plants and lawn areas. Most vegetable gardens are still miniature versions of old family farm plots, but the kitchen garden is different not only in its history, but also its design.

The kitchen garden may serve as the central feature of an ornamental, all-season landscape, or it may be little more than a humble vegetable plot. It is a source of herbs, vegetables and fruits, but it is often also a structured garden space with a design based on repetitive geometric patterns.

The kitchen garden has year-round visual appeal and can incorporate permanent perennials or woody shrub plantings around (or among) the annuals.