Sentence examples for backyard plot from inspiring English sources

The extent of his previous gardening experience had been growing parsley in a backyard plot when he was growing up on Long Island.

The backyard plot bore beans, tomatoes, mustard greens -- the last an important ingredient in sinigang, a tangy soup of Mr. Lopez's native Philippines.

Two plants in my modest backyard plot in Brooklyn grew very long shoots this season, and I never got around to pruning.

Online enthusiasts share tips on how to lure funeral duskywing butterflies or bats to a backyard plot, how to grow herbal abortifacients or the ingredients of Haitian zombie poison and, of course, how to grow an all-black garden.

Whatever food waste I cannot salvage, I throw into my compost bin and with the help of my friends, the redworms, I render into soil I use for my backyard plot.

City dwellers have always grown vegetables in backyard plots or community gardens.

For years, New Yorkers have grown basil, tomatoes and greens in window boxes, backyard plots and community gardens.

The videotape, "Sugared-up Community Waffle Garden" by Nora Naranjo-Morse, a Tewa, is a sober documentary about backyard plots called waffle gardens.

The right to sell land was abolished, but the right to inherit it was not, so North Koreans took care of their houses and backyard vegetable plots.

To keep up with demand, Sondker sources ingredients from sustainable growers and suppliers (nearby Mountain Rose Herbs is a favorite) but still grows a small supply in her backyard, where a small plot is filled with herbaceous perennial borders and resembles what she calls a "modern meadow".

But increasingly, residents of places like East New York and the South Bronx -- with low-income residents, high rates of obesity-related illnesses, and little in the way of fresh produce -- are using their backyards and neighborhood plots to grow food not just to feed their families but to sell to people on their block.