Kitchen garden

Typical potager (French intensive gardening) with its traditional scarecrow in the French countryside
Walled 17th-century kitchen garden at Ham House near London, with orangery in the distance.

The traditional kitchen garden, vegetable garden, also known as a potager (from the French jardin potager) or in Scotland a kailyaird, is a space separate from the rest of the residential garden – the ornamental plants and lawn areas – used for growing edible plants, especially historically. In large country houses, the kitchen garden was a segregated area, normally rectangular and enclosed by a wall or hedge.

An herbal garden at Beernem, Belgium

Domestic vegetable gardens provide a small-scale source of food. These were common during the world wars and have been grown to pursue sustainability. Herbs are also produced to flavour dishes and for medicinal purposes.

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