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单词 market garden
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Definition of market garden in English:

market garden

noun
British
  • A place where vegetables and fruit are grown for sale.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • My husband and I still grow vegetables, but flowers have become an important part of our market garden.
    • Whether it's picking up a fresh bunch of herbs at the farmers' market or pulling some carrots from the dirt at a market garden nearby, more people are concerned about where their food is grown.
    • The first St Michael & All Angels church was a temporary iron structure in a market garden on Chiswick High Road, facing the top of Chiswick Lane.
    • Her knowledge of plants and of gardening has been developed since 1982 through experience in a market garden and then a garden centre in Otaki.
    • His parents used to have a market garden where his mother grew strawberries.
    • Plans for any sort of ornamental garden were put on hold by the second world war and the couple ran Orchards as a market garden, producing vegetables and fruit.
    • I remember we used to buy our fruit and vegetables from a market gardener called Leo, who had a market garden on the south side of what's now right under King's Avenue Bridge.
    • I have seen oats grow well into January in my northern-Iowa market garden.
    • Mr Sandy has a market garden on the Gower, where he is cultivating the orchids.
    • Over the past two years they've established a market garden and a Community Shared Agriculture program there.
    • ‘For many years the walled garden was a market garden and a rose garden,’ he says.
    • Planning officers had recommended refusal of the application on the grounds that the site, which was formerly a market garden and is within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, would be a loss of designated open space.
    • Occupation and instruction, without dullness, can be provided by giving the students a plot of ground for growing things in - not a bed for the bean seed only, but a miniature market garden.
    • The county of Middlesex, west of London, was once a market garden for the capital; now Middlesex is covered by Heathrow airport and urban sprawl.
    • She tells of how Hartwood was once closeted off from society, with its own market garden and graveyard.
    • Mr Wilson was brought up on a market garden in Kent, but was a reluctant horticulturalist.
    • The children, from two to six years of age, each have two gardens: a pleasure and a market garden, which are certified organic.
    • Another year I planted potatoes in the market garden not because I was planning to sell them but because potatoes are said to like new soil.
    • The hot water swimming pool - the ultimate complementary therapy for helping dogs recover from injury as well as shed weight - opened today at a converted market garden at Cliffe, near Selby.
    • It includes paddocks and a walled market garden.

Phrases

  • market gardening

    • Example sentencesExamples
      • I am an artist who came to market gardening through my passion for my medium: edible plants in all their colors and textures.
      • Estimates for the value of the banana and papaya plantings offer a sense of the significance of market gardening as an income-generating activity.
      • While a variety of income-generating activities occurred in the community, people were uniform in viewing market gardening as the premier avenue for income generation and potential accumulation.
      • There was growing specialization, with wheat as the principal crop, a switch from sheep to cattle, and a rise in market gardening.
      • She and her partner had a lot of stature as reporters for The Washington Post, yet they had thrown over those incredible careers to become pioneers in modern market gardening.

Derivatives

  • market gardener

  • noun ˌmɑːkɪt ˈɡɑːd(ə)nəˌmɑrkət ˈɡɑrd(ə)nər
    British
    • Whether you're a market gardener wanting to extend your season or a family looking to grow more of your own food year-round, a hoophouse is the answer.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The allegations go back 30 years or more to the days when he'd not long arrived in the Northern Territory and worked as a market gardener and wildlife officer in Arnhem Land.
      • Savier was by far the best market gardener I had visited, ever.
      • Walnut and chestnut trees shade the paths in and out of the villages, each terrace of land carries a patchwork of blown barley or vegetables that would turn any market gardener's head.
      • If you are a market gardener or if you sell products directly to consumers, keep daily or weekly sales totals, along with accurate input and production records.
  • market gardening

  • noun
    British
    • She and her partner had a lot of stature as reporters for The Washington Post, yet they had thrown over those incredible careers to become pioneers in modern market gardening.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Estimates for the value of the banana and papaya plantings offer a sense of the significance of market gardening as an income-generating activity.
      • While a variety of income-generating activities occurred in the community, people were uniform in viewing market gardening as the premier avenue for income generation and potential accumulation.
      • I am an artist who came to market gardening through my passion for my medium: edible plants in all their colors and textures.
      • There was growing specialization, with wheat as the principal crop, a switch from sheep to cattle, and a rise in market gardening.
 
 

Definition of market garden in US English:

market garden

nounˈmärkət ˌɡärdnˈmɑrkət ˌɡɑrdn
British
  • A place where vegetables and fruit are grown for sale.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her knowledge of plants and of gardening has been developed since 1982 through experience in a market garden and then a garden centre in Otaki.
    • Whether it's picking up a fresh bunch of herbs at the farmers' market or pulling some carrots from the dirt at a market garden nearby, more people are concerned about where their food is grown.
    • I remember we used to buy our fruit and vegetables from a market gardener called Leo, who had a market garden on the south side of what's now right under King's Avenue Bridge.
    • Planning officers had recommended refusal of the application on the grounds that the site, which was formerly a market garden and is within the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, would be a loss of designated open space.
    • My husband and I still grow vegetables, but flowers have become an important part of our market garden.
    • The children, from two to six years of age, each have two gardens: a pleasure and a market garden, which are certified organic.
    • The first St Michael & All Angels church was a temporary iron structure in a market garden on Chiswick High Road, facing the top of Chiswick Lane.
    • Plans for any sort of ornamental garden were put on hold by the second world war and the couple ran Orchards as a market garden, producing vegetables and fruit.
    • The hot water swimming pool - the ultimate complementary therapy for helping dogs recover from injury as well as shed weight - opened today at a converted market garden at Cliffe, near Selby.
    • It includes paddocks and a walled market garden.
    • Mr Wilson was brought up on a market garden in Kent, but was a reluctant horticulturalist.
    • ‘For many years the walled garden was a market garden and a rose garden,’ he says.
    • I have seen oats grow well into January in my northern-Iowa market garden.
    • Mr Sandy has a market garden on the Gower, where he is cultivating the orchids.
    • Occupation and instruction, without dullness, can be provided by giving the students a plot of ground for growing things in - not a bed for the bean seed only, but a miniature market garden.
    • The county of Middlesex, west of London, was once a market garden for the capital; now Middlesex is covered by Heathrow airport and urban sprawl.
    • His parents used to have a market garden where his mother grew strawberries.
    • She tells of how Hartwood was once closeted off from society, with its own market garden and graveyard.
    • Another year I planted potatoes in the market garden not because I was planning to sell them but because potatoes are said to like new soil.
    • Over the past two years they've established a market garden and a Community Shared Agriculture program there.
 
 
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