noun
vegetable field; vegetable garden; market garden
Refers to a plot of land where vegetables are grown, ranging from a home kitchen garden to a commercial market garden.
祖母は裏の野菜畑でトマトを作っている。
My grandmother grows tomatoes in the vegetable garden out back.
この辺りには広い野菜畑が広がっ
There are large vegetable fields stretching out around here.
菜園 is a slightly more formal or literary term for a vegetable garden, often used in names or signs.
Compound of 野菜 (vegetable) and 畑 (field, dry field). The reading やさいばたけ follows standard rendaku voicing of はたけ to ばたけ.