make garden

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Meaning: (idiomatic,dated,US,Canada)Toplantormaintainagarden, especially avegetablegarden.Synonym:garden1852,Susanna Moodie, chapter 8, inRoughing it in the Bush; or, Life in Canada‎[1], volume 2, London: Richard Bentley, page142: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 “tomake garden” as the Canadians term preparing a few vegetables for the season.1877,John Habberton, chapter 3, inThe Jericho Road; A Story of Western Life‎[2], Chicago: Jansen, McClurg, page32:“Can you take care of horses?”“Yes.”“Make garden?”“Yes—I always took care of mother’s.”1918,Willa Cather, chapter 18, inMy Ántonia‎[3], Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page146:[…]Ántonia and her mother weremaking garden, off across the pond in the draw-head.1955,Julia Montgomery Street, chapter 8, inFiddler’s Fancy‎[4], New York: Follett, page67:Crossing a ridge, he was happy to see that Miz’ Doanie and her three children were all outmaking garden.1972,Henry W. Clune, chapter 12, inThe Rochester I Know‎[5], Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page163: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.

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