market gardening

market garden

n. Chiefly British See truck farm.

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market gardening

n (Agriculture) chiefly Brit the business of growing fruit and vegetables on a commercial scale. Also called (in the US and Canada): truck farming or trucking

market gardening

truck farming

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Noun

market gardening - the growing of vegetables or flowers for marketgardening, horticulture - the cultivation of plants

Translations

market gardening

market gardening,

cultivation, on suburban land of high value, of vegetables and flowers for the supply of nearby cities. Heavy fertilizing and the planting of successive crops are employed to obtain continuous returns from the acreage. Sales are to greengrocers and florists, principally through commission agents. See truck farmingtruck farming,
horticultural practice of growing one or more vegetable crops on a large scale for shipment to distant markets. It is usually less intensive and diversified than market gardening. At first this type of farming depended entirely on local or regional markets.
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Bibliography

See R. Webber, Market Gardening (1972).

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noun the growing of vegetables or flowers for market

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