kitchen garden

a garden where vegetables, herbs, and fruit are grown for one's own use.

Origin of kitchen garden

First recorded in 1570–80

kitchen gardener, noun

She glanced round to see if she were observed, then ran off in the direction of the kitchen-garden.

The School by the Sea |Angela Brazil
The gardener who rented her kitchen-garden supplied her with vegetables, and kept her flowers in order.

Major Frank |A. L. G. Bosboom-Toussaint
But I'll warrant you there's a kitchen-garden in the rear of the palace.

A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales |Nathaniel Hawthorne
A burst of laughter from the kitchen-garden startled them, and Belden started up as if to check it.

In The Valley Of The Shadow |Josephine Daskam

And for the love of the poetic, he had left a small corner of his kitchen-garden uncultivated.

The Patriot |Antonio Fogazzaro

kitchen garden

a garden where vegetables and sometimes also fruit are grown

kitchen gardener, noun