truck garden

English edit

From truck (“to trade”).

truck garden (plural truck gardens)

(chiefly US) Synonym of market garden, a garden whose produce is mostly intended for sale.
- 1792 November 4, George Washington, The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources: 1745-1799‎^[1], 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, Booker T. Washington, chapter 14, in Up From Slavery: An Autobiography‎^[2]:
  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.