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Thanksgiving Farms is 57 acres. We like to grow a little bit of the odd and unusual. So, we grow pretty much everything.

感恩节农场占地57英亩。我们喜欢种植一些稀奇古怪的作物。我们基本上什么都种。

The only thing we do not grow is corn. We're ladies. Corn is heavy and we're not picking it. I run the garden center part.

我们唯一不种的就是玉米。我们是女士。玉米太重了，我们收不起来。我负责经营园艺中心的部分。

I have 20 grow houses full of plants right now. I grow everything from petunias to Calibrachoas to tropical plants.

我现在有20个种满植物的大棚。我种植矮牵牛花、百万铃、热带植物等植物。

I plant them at a certain time so that they get ready by Mother's Day. Mother's Day is our Christmas in the greenhouse industry.

我在特定时间种植它们，以便它们在母亲节前上市。母亲节相当于温室花卉行业的圣诞节。

That's when everybody brings their mom out. They get flowers.

那时每个人都带着他们的妈妈出来买花。

In normal years,we have half of it sold by May 10, and then you sell the rest of it at the end of May and two weeks into June.

正常年景时，我们到5月10日会售出一半，然后在五月底和六月的头两周内卖出剩余部分。

On a glorious sunny Saturday afternoon in May, we have 75 to 100 cars in our parking lot.

五月一个晴朗的星期六下午，我们停车场里有75到100辆车。

When I heard about the coronavirus, I went and I turned all my greenhouses down 10 degrees, just to try to get my plants in a holding pattern, because I don't know when I'm going to be able to sell them.

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