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kitchen gardens

n. (kitchen garden English)

Usage examples of "kitchen gardens".

With long poles men pushed the snow off the fruit trees in the Reichskolonie kitchen gardens and behind Abbot's Mill.

A basket of doves stood ready for plucking, and several more of the birds flew circles about the tall, hive-shaped dovecote that dominated the south side of the kitchen gardens.

They passed the formal gardens and the kitchen gardens, where the vegetable and herb beds, protected under mounds of straw, now had a smooth, insulating blanket of undisturbed snow on them that brought them up to the boys' waists.

No one would dare plunder the kitchen gardens for snow for snowballs, not even during the hottest battle.

Grumpkin was trailing along as usual, batting at my skirts, when we confronted Sibylla coming out the passageway that leads to the kitchen gardens.

His gaze wandered frequently from his work to the window, where we could see young men riding little tractors with plows behind, sometimes a horse pulling a cartload of something, old women in their kitchen gardens bending, scraping, weeding.

The kitchen gardens were deserted, as he had thought - with the sole exception of one very old Priest of some group that wore yellow robes.

The kitchen gardens were deserted, as he had thoughtwith the sole exception of one very old Priest of some group that wore yellow robes.

As it went along, the walls grew lower until they disappeared altogether, and the houses, smaller and poorer until they degenerated into a maze of huts and kitchen gardens, with here and there pigsties, each home to a clutch of small grey-haired pigs.

The gardener had a hut beside the fortress wall, near the kitchen gardens.

Cadfael was accustomed to having two assistants allotted to him throughout the active part of the gardening years, for he grew other things in his walled garden besides the enclosure of herbs, though the main kitchen gardens of the abbey were outside the enclave, across the main highway and along the fields by the river, the lush level called the Gaye.

The villages were slung along laneways with an open square at the middle, each house surrounded by kitchen gardens and sheds.