During the eighteenth century, the production of food for local consumption took place in gardens attached to plantation great houses and workers houses, in provision grounds located within the plantation boundaries, and in separate units of land called mountains because they were commonly situated in hill backlands. Compare the modern Jamaican equivalents of "yard", "ground" and "bush".
The drawing is taken from Higman, 1988, Jamaica Surveyed ( BUY a Copy) of this fascinating book)