Meaning of make garden | Babel Free

Definitions

To plant or maintain a garden, especially a vegetable garden.

Canada, US, dated, idiomatic

Examples

“As the spring advanced, and after Jacob left us, he seemed ashamed of sitting in the house doing nothing, and therefore undertook to make us a garden, or “to make garden” as the Canadians term preparing a few vegetables for the season.”

““Can you take care of horses?” “Yes.” “Make garden?” “Yes—I always took care of mother’s.””

“[…] Ántonia and her mother were making garden, off across the pond in the draw-head.”

“Crossing a ridge, he was happy to see that Miz’ Doanie and her three children were all out making garden.”

“In the other century, and for a considerable number of years in this one, the solid citizenry of the town prided itself on home ownership [...]. One got a little place, planted a couple of fruit trees and a currant bush out back, made garden, seeded a lawn, and put a standing lamp on a center table in the living room.”

CEFR level