to garden
- verb
- /ˈɡɑrdən/
- She decided to garden in her backyard, planting flowers and herbs for the summer.
- people garden
Like that's the best part about gardening is just being out here doing it.
- Like that's the best part about gardening is just being out here doing it.
- And it's within samurai culture, you know, to garden.
- I'm just a gardener that loves to garden.
- The losing was fell off while gardening, went into the grass.
- We are back again with the best gardening content of all time, Blossom.
- Earmarks, gloves, and I bought myself some sneaky gardening.
Examples
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I really think you two should write a book about how to garden together as a couple.
Blog text (20) -
You'll learn how to garden and you'll also have classes in the history of gardens and horticulture, botany.
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But for this, I made sure to garden the extra hard.
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I would never have thought a city man would like to garden that much.
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I love to garden so I thought I would write about dirt and the sun.
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She used to say, "We come from the earth and we return to the earth, and in between, we garden."
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So we should all know how to cook, clean, garden, dress, do DIY, etc.
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I love to garden, but I'm allergic to pollen.
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In the future, the Marvell program intends to deliver the produce to senior citizens who can't garden for themselves.
Academic text (2006) -
She likes to garden.
Synonyms
To prepare land for growing crops
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
A situation that seems very good but may hide problems
Compounds
- Literature
A perfect, untouched garden in the Bible where the first humans lived and a way to say an unspoiled place
A small area near a house where people grow vegetables and herbs for the home
- US
A 2004 American film about a young man who returns to his hometown and deals with his feelings
A tool with a long handle and a bar with teeth for gathering leaves or smoothing soil
A large North American spider with black and yellow markings often found in gardens
A small fast-growing herb with peppery leaves used in salads and as a garnish
A garden plant with broad leaves and long hanging red flower spikes
A small plant often grown in gardens with tiny blue, purple, or white flowers
A tall plant with sweet-smelling pink or white flowers and roots used in medicine
A climbing plant with bright orange flowers whose seeds people sometimes eat like capers
- Specialized
A plant people grow for its thick stems and roots that they candy or use as medicine
A bushy plant with lemon-scented leaves and small white or yellow flowers that people use in teas
- Specialized
A very small animal that lives in soil and eats plant roots in gardens or greenhouses
A small plant with spicy leaves used to add flavor to salads and decorate food
A nickname for the US state North Dakota because of the Peace Garden on its border
How Involved
Surface Forms
Etymology
To garden is just to work in a garden — to plant, care for, and grow plants in that 'enclosed place', which is why the verb means to look after plants as a hobby or job.