Cast your mind to Mr Wemmick, the clerk in Great Expectations, and his castle in Walworth: Wemmick's house was a little wooden cottage in the midst of plots of garden, and the top of it was cut out and painted like a battery mounted with guns.
As a result, former pastoralists have developed small plots of gardens, enabling mothers and fathers to both feed their families and sell off the remainder of the crop.
Not just dark-skinned green ones and bumpy Kirbys, but yellow cucumbers, spherical ones the size of golf balls and even, in the plot of the garden president, Adriann Musson, wrong-looking brown-skinned cucumbers of Indian origin.
To help prevent disease and infestations, try planting radishes in the same plot of your garden as the onions.
If that sounds like the plot of a garden-variety telenovela you might see playing on a cheap TV in a corner of your Laundromat, that is exactly the point.
As Vidal points out, Oz exists in orderly patches like the extensive gardens that Baum remembered from his childhood home, and which he recreated in the geometrical plots of his garden at Ozcot.
What started as a redistribution of garden plots in a Moscow suburb may finish with a distribution of much juicier assets.
A stroll down the neat rows of garden plots comes complete with a soundtrack of voices and transistor radios softly speaking in a variety of languages.
But the Pomander Walk residents have been concerned that the shade cast by the new building to the east will affect the west side of garden plots, which up until recently got good morning light.
Garden, Plot of ground where herbs, fruits, flowers, vegetables, or trees are cultivated.
