What do you see when you look at a plot of ground?

Hello Codypody9,

Quote Dictionary.com's entry for a "plot of ground":
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=plot%20of%20ground
"a small area of planted ground; "a cabbage patch""

The Webster Dictionary defines "plot" as:
http://machaut.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/WEBSTER.sh?WORD=plot
"1. A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot. (...)
2. A plantation laid out. (...)
3. (Surv.) A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to
a scale."

E.g. in a course titled "Environmental Science", a suggested activity
is to observe "changes in soil, flora, and fauna on a small plot of
ground before and after application of an herbicide."

And the Hyper Dictionary defines a "garden" as, quote:
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/garden
"A plot of ground where plants are cultivated"

The Garden Online Dictionary at
http://onlinedictionary.datasegment.com/word/Garden/ reveals the same
when queried on "garden", and it's listing "plot of ground" as a
"small area of ground covered by specific vegetation; "a bean plot";
"a cabbage patch"; "a briar patch" [syn: plot, patch]".


So to wrap it up visually, you're likely looking at something like*:
http://www.cricketcornerfarm.com/images/plow.jpg
http://www.hannayfraser.co.uk/image26832.jpg
http://www.agpartners.com/bulkseed/Stine_Bean_Plot.jpg


I hope this answers your question!


*Images from
http://www.cricketcornerfarm.com/Spring.htm
http://www.hannayfraser.co.uk/prop26832.shtml
http://www.agpartners.com/Seed/seed.htm

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What you see when you look at a plot of ground really depends on at
least three things.  The context from which you are considering it,
the scale that you are seeing it from, and perhaps, the shape it
takes.  Taken together, the small part of the earth's surface that you
are concerned about becomes a little better defined.

A farmer would define a plot of ground differently than a real estate
agent trying to sell his farm.  A forester would see one in a way
radically different from an environmentalist.  Two gardeners might see
the same thing.  A scientist's very carefully laid out research plot
is entirely different from that plot of ground down by the lake that
was burned over last year because of a careless camper.

A plot of ground as seen from a satellite orbiting earth would
obviously not be the same thing as what you see looking down between
your feet.  A circular plot of diseased mint in an Oregon agricultural
field is different from a square garden plot on a rooftop in Brooklyn.
 A cemetary plot is not is not a cemetary plat.

Without these two variable coming into play, what you see when you
look at a plot of ground might be simply defined as a small part of
the earth's surface that is representative or not representative of
the whole from which it came.