Meaning & use
kitchen garden
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Meaning
nouncountable
A garden where vegetables, herbs, and sometimes fruit are grown for use in the home kitchen.
Grammar: Countable: a kitchen garden, two kitchen gardens. Often used with 'in': grow herbs in a kitchen garden.
Patterns
- grow something in a kitchen garden
- plant a kitchen garden
- a small kitchen garden
They grow tomatoes, mint, and lettuce in their kitchen garden.
A kitchen garden can supply fresh herbs all summer.
She planted a small kitchen garden behind the house.
Word forms
| plural | kitchen gardens |
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Common combinations
- plant a kitchen garden
- We plan to plant a kitchen garden this spring.
- grow vegetables in a kitchen garden
- They grow vegetables in a kitchen garden near the back door.
- a small kitchen garden
- Even a small kitchen garden can produce enough salad for a family.
- kitchen garden herbs
- She used kitchen garden herbs to flavor the soup.
Synonyms and how they differ
- vegetable garden
- Common in American English; it usually means a garden for vegetables, while a kitchen garden may also include herbs and fruit.
- potager
- A formal or specialist word for a kitchen garden, often one designed to look attractive as well as produce food.
Commonly confused: kitchen garden or garden kitchen?
kitchen garden vs garden kitchen
This is not a usual term; it would mean a kitchen in a garden, not a garden for growing food.
Practice
They grow fresh herbs and salad vegetables in their ___.
Choose one answer.
'Kitchen garden' is the correct singular noun for a garden grown for home food. 'Kitchen gardens' would be plural and does not fit 'their' with the singular idea here, and 'garden kitchen' means something different.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “kitchen garden”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.