English
truck (etymology 2) + garden.
Noun
en-noun
- A market garden, a farm raising produce meant to be sold locally.
#*1792 November 4, George Washington, The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources: 1745-1799, volume 32
#*: As the home house people (the industrious part of them at least) might want ground for their truck patches, they might, for this purpose, cultivate what would be cleared. But I would have the ground from the cross fence by the Spring, quite round by the Wharf, first grubbed, before the (above mentioned) is attempted.
#*1901, George Washingon Carver, Up From Slavery: An Autobiography, Chapter 14
#*: it is not strange that in the first years of our new life we began at the top instead of at the bottom; that a seat in Congress or the state legislature was more sought than real estate or industrial skill; that the political convention or stump speaking had more attractions than starting a dairy farm or truck garden.
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