广播电视英语短句 第 195 课：粮食产品运动-5

Nancy Garrison started the first master gardener program in Santa Clara County, California, almost thirty years ago. 大约 30 年前， Nancy Garrison 在加州 Santa Clara 郡创始了第一个主园艺项目。

She says organic material such as leaf mulch, also called leaf mold, can almost always improve poor soil. 她表示类似于 leaf mulch （也称为 leaf mold ）这样的有机物几乎总是能改善贫瘠土壤。

Once the soil is improved, she says, then "worms can do a lot of your work for you." 她表示，一旦土壤肥率提升，“蠕虫就能帮你做很多事情。”

A vegetable garden in front of a house may not seem unusual in rural areas. 房屋前有一个菜园在农村地区很常见。

But a lawyer who lives in suburban Maryland, outside Washington, grew squash, cucumbers and tomatoes on his front lawn last year. How did his neighbors react? 但一位居住在马里兰城郊，华盛顿外围的律师，去年在其草坪前种植了南瓜、黄瓜、西红柿，那他的邻居会有什么反应呢？

He says many of them congratulated him on his garden. 他说，许多邻居在他的菜园祝贺他。