Definition of "potager"

while he could not get into it until he obtained the keys from Bechet the notary, he had a picnic or two in the dilapidated garden and the herb potager, now run hopelessly to seed and weed.

1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 398

An INDIAN DISH or Potager. Made alſo of the Barque of a Tree, with the Sides and Rim ſewed together after the manner of Twiggen-Work.

1681, Nehemiah Grew, Musæum Regalis Societatis: Or, A Catalogue and Description of the Natural and Artificial Rarities Belonging to the Royal Society and preſerved at Greſham Colledge, page 372