11.   In those efforts, the government encouraged citizens to plant individual and community garden plots.

12.   More than a third of all meat and nearly half the vegetables in the country are now produced privately in back yards or in communal garden plots.

13.   Or sign up for a community garden plot.

14.   Outside, the family garden plots lay in hibernation, awaiting next year with its promise of fragrant blossoms and fat tomatoes.

15.   Some of them munched on grapes picked from vines dangling above the maze of spotless walkways between the garden plots.

16.   Some limit it to garden plots, telling the police that they are growing canary food to make the birds sing better.

17.   That day at the market, we bought one of each plant, put them in our Harlem community garden plot and bought even more plants expressly for cooking.

18.   Tens of millions of Russians depend on their small garden plots for survival.

19.   The government allows those with small garden plots to sell vegetables at the informal markets to help relieve growing food shortages.

20.   The law, for example, would ban the ownership of land, except for small garden plots.