make garden

Verb

make garden (third-person singular simple present makes garden, present participle making garden, simple past and past participle made garden)

1. (Canada, US, dated, idiomatic) To plant or maintain a garden, especially a vegetable garden.
   • 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.1852, Susanna Moodie, chapter 8, in Roughing it in the Bush; or, Life in Canada, volume 2, London: Richard Bentley, page 142
   • “Can you take care of horses?”
     “Yes.”
     “Make garden?”
     “Yes—I always took care of mother’s.”1877, John Habberton, chapter 3, in The Jericho Road; A Story of Western Life, Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, page 32

   Synonyms:

   garden