Can you call a vegetable plot "a vegetable bed"? [closed]

Can you call a vegetable plot "a vegetable bed"? Or is this usage uncommon?

For example a bed of flowers is called a flowerbed.

Solution 1:

Yes, you can call a vegetable plot "a vegetable bed", and this is not uncommon.

bed Merriam-Webster

: a flat or level surface: such as a : a plot of ground prepared for plants also : the plants grown in such a plot

as in:

• “The gardener planted a bed of roses”
• “The gardener planted a bed of flowers”
• “The gardener planted a bed of vegetables”
• "The gardener planted a bed of vegetables and ornamental flowers”

These are all correct, as bed means a plot of ground in which plants are growing.

Examples:

• Build Your Own Raised Flower/Vegetable Bed ThePioneerWoman

• How to Build A Vegetable Bed Biodynamically MotherEarth

• Build a Raised Vegetable Bed Denver Post

Solution 2:

Yes, you can, at least in UK usage. The Royal Horticultural Society refer to "vegetable beds" in their campaign for school gardening, for example.

They're not completely synonymous as you'll see from this description of my own garden: I have several veg beds, one strawberry bed, and two herb beds. They're island beds separated by paths and together make up the vegetable plot. The examples I've linked (along with the more common "raised bed") demonstrate that phrases of this form are quite flexible

Solution 3:

As a native British English speaker, I would call that a vegetable patch. Ngrams shows its more common than 'plot' or 'bed'.

'Vegetable bed' sounds wrong to me, despite published usages. I would know what you meant but I wouldn't use it myself.