What is "truck garden"

Usage examples of "truck garden".

This whole city and county is a big piece of truck garden to Dave Broon.

No one ever got knifed or gang-raped at Atascadero, though the inmates did have to maintain a three-acre truck garden.

Now he and his son and daughter-in-law cultivated a big truck garden and helped improvise plows and cultivators that could be drawn by horses or newly broken oxen.

Not enough for a truck garden, but enough to add fresh fruit and vegetables to the larder in spring and summer.

Except for pasture and hay, I figured to plant most of the ground to corn -- corn and a big truck garden -- and enough oats for the team next winter, and for the cow I figured to buy when I'd made a crop.

Everything about her smacked of Midwestern farm values - the canning, the sheets on the line, the truck garden, the unadorned face.

You wouldn't talk about starting a truck garden if you knew the answers.

Barda showed them where the truck garden had been, and sure enough, potatoes and carrots were growing in a maze of weeds that had been (and still were) spices.

Through Addard's room to the balcony, down the outside stair to the truck garden.

Uncle Ma followed the doddering old man down a long, winding path to the truck garden, where they both sat near the pigsty.

Maya stared at the settlement (corral and pasture, truck garden, bam, bee boxes), marveling at its beauty, and its archaic wholeness, its seeming detachment from the great redrock desert plateau above the canyon-detachment from everything really, from history, from Time itself.

After returning the equipment to its place, she trudged around the stock barn and across the white-blanketed truck garden to the schoolhouse.

But I did cook, especially breakfast while she got the kids organized, and she did help work the farm and especially the truck garden.