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Good day! We grow giant marrows, four foot in a month. 45 inches.
大家好！我们种的是巨型西葫芦，一个月就长4英尺，45英寸
These marrows would taste exactly the same as a normal marrow.
这些西葫芦的口感跟普通的西葫芦一模一样
Nice and tender and lush.
口感都很棒，都非常柔嫩多汁
Some of them look a bit tough, but once you cut into them, they cut like butter.
虽然有些长的看上去有点硬，但切起来就像切黄油一样
My name is Phillip Vowles. I live in Llanharry, Wales and I grow giant vegetables.
我是菲利普·沃尔斯，我住在威尔士兰哈里，种巨型蔬菜
I've been growing giant vegetables now for the last 30 years.
过去三十年来我一直都在种巨型蔬菜
I come from a very large family.
我有一个大家庭
My mother had 17 children. 13 of us survived,
我妈妈生了17个孩子，其中13个都幸存了下来
and I think, you know, that was something, you know, big vegetables feed big families.
我就觉得，得有大大的蔬菜来养我们这种大家庭啊
You know, I’m up here every morning, every night, every single day of the week.
我一周七天，每天早晚都会来这里
There's a lot of love and care goes into it.
我对这里倾注了很多爱和呵护
Sometimes I do a bit of talking to them as well
有时候我会跟它们说话
to encourage them to grow which is a bit of, you know, a bit of fun.
鼓励它们长大，感觉还挺好玩的
I think he's just about finished growing there now.
我觉得他可能已经差不多定型了
I got to be very careful,
我必须非常小心
the wife is not about when I start talking to my vegetables, but it's all good fun.
老婆子不在的时候我才会跟它们讲话，但是一切都非常好玩
I broke the world record for the heaviest cucumber what, 25 years ago.
大概25年前，我打破了世界上最重黄瓜的纪录
It weighed 18 and 1/2 pound and it was just incredible the way it grew.
那个黄瓜有18.5磅重，长的样子也是很不可思议
You know, when I started, if we had a marrow 20, 30 pound in weight,
你知道吗，刚开始的时候，如果一个西葫芦长到二三十磅
you had a big marrow.
就算是个头大的了
Now, we're up over a 100 pound in weight.
现在，100磅重的我们都有
A normal cabbage would be two pound in weight, but we're growing 'em 120 pound.
普通的包菜差不多两磅重，我们的包菜可以长到120磅
You know, you can feed 120, 130, 140 people off one cabbage.
你知道吗，一个包菜，就够120，130，甚至140个人吃了
This is why I supply the local pub, and they use 'em up for Sunday lunch.
所以我有给我们的酒吧供货，他们周日午餐要用
I've developed my own strain, more or less, now.
现在我差不多已经开发出我自己的新品种了
I select my own seed every year, the biggest and the best seed,
我每年都会自己挑种子，挑最大最好的
and it just seems to be improving which is incredible.
貌似还真的有长进，简直是不可思议
I grow organically.
我种植的都是有机蔬菜
I had to think, if I can do it, anybody can do it, and it's a big thrill every day.
我得说，我能种巨型蔬菜，大家也能，而且种巨型蔬菜每天都是一个大惊喜
The wife say, “What am I doing up the lot every day?”
老婆子说，“你每天都在地里鼓捣什么呢？”
And when she comes up, she realize.
来了她就明白了
