Definition

1. Noun:
   • Vegetable garden: A plot of land, often part of a home garden or a dedicated area, cultivated specifically for growing vegetables and herbs for personal consumption or small-scale sale.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Mẹ tôi trồng cà chua và rau diếp trong vườn rau. (My mother grows tomatoes and lettuce in the vegetable garden.)
  • Vườn rau nhỏ sau nhà cung cấp thực phẩm sạch cho gia đình. (The small vegetable garden behind the house provides clean food for the family.)

Advanced Usage

• The term can imply a garden focused on practical, edible produce, as opposed to a flower garden () or an orchard ().

Variants and Related Words

• Vườn tược (n): General term for gardens or cultivated land.
• Vườn nhà (n): Home garden, which may include a vegetable plot along with other plants.
• Luống rau (n): Vegetable bed; a specific row or raised section within a vegetable garden.

Synonyms

• Kitchen garden: A garden where vegetables, fruits, and herbs are grown for household use.
• Potager: A French term for an ornamental vegetable garden or kitchen garden.

Related Idioms

• Đầu voi đuôi chuột: Literally "head of an elephant, tail of a mouse," meaning something that starts grandly but ends poorly. This can be humorously applied to a that was ambitiously planned but yielded little produce.
  • Kế hoạch làm vườn rau của anh ta đúng là đầu voi đuôi chuột. (His plan for the vegetable garden was truly ambitious at start but disappointing in the end.)