veggie garden
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- noun
- /ˈvɛdʒi ˈɡɑrdən/
- Informal
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- My grandparents always had a small veggie garden where they grew carrots and beans for their meals.
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Those I planted in the veggie garden were given the right amount.
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As for subsistence, almost everyone has a veggie garden.
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I clean up the veggie garden in the fall but leave the flower garden till spring.
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They grew a nice veggie garden and have many flowers.
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I have a veggie garden grow plot and a sort of micro farm made out of sports car tires in my concrete yard.
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In 2009, I started a 4x4 foot veggie garden, and each year I have made it a little bigger until now; in 2012, I have a 10x20 foot garden.
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Although my own dad used to grow this crop in his veggie garden and my mother would then make horseradish sauce to serve with the traditional British meal of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, I realized that I did not know much about the root itself.
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Even then, it occurred to me, probably while I sewed a recycled fringe for my jeans out of those deadly pop-tops that we had on soda cans then, that to learn every skill, to acquire every tool, to manage every farm animal while growing your veggie garden was, to put it simply, a Herculean feat.
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Every summer, I enjoy fresh tomatoes and cucumbers from my own veggie garden.
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She spends her weekends weeding and watering her veggie garden for healthy homegrown produce.
Synonyms
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An area of land next to a house where people grow flowers or vegetables
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A small piece of land where you grow vegetables to eat
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A small area in a garden where people grow vegetables
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A small area near a house where people grow vegetables and herbs for the home
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Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'veggie' (vegetable) + 'garden' (plot for cultivating plants): it denotes a garden where vegetables are grown. Although 'veggie' is informal, the noun-noun compounding pattern is regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase veggie garden comes from the simple picture of a garden where people grow veggies. Veggie is a short word for 'vegetable', so the phrase means an area where you grow vegetables for your own use.