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This early Fauvist painting, which is rather cool in colour, does not show the Seine landscape that was characteristic of Vlaminck, but an urban motif. In the background is a simplified row of houses painted in blue, red and white, while two-thirds of the picture is taken up by vegetable gardens of various types. The gardens are populated by boldly shaped but sparse, slender trees without foliage, which give the painting a vertical structure. The painter has used different colours in a row. A road can be seen at the left edge of the picture, but the view into the depths is obscured. A stooped figure - probably a gardener - can be seen on the right between two trees. Overall, the picture is very lively and dynamic. Vlaminck has made greater use of the primary colours blue, red and yellow, interspersed with white and black. Areas of green provide a complementary contrast to the bright red. Brushstrokes are elongated and individual areas are evenly filled with paint, as can be seen in the area of the houses.

The painting was exhibited at the Galerie des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1934 under the title 'The Vegetable Garden'. Vlaminck did not give his works titles, which is why some of them vary. The motif of the garden or the gardener appears several times in Vlaminck's early work.