我看到卡尔姨丈种的正是这一品种的西瓜。他用洗衣盆把水浇到沙地上的西瓜周围，一边看着瓜秧像台吸尘器一般把水吸了进去。
Those are the ones I saw my great-uncle Carl grow , pouring water from a washtub into the soil around the melons and watching the stalks suck it up like a vacuum cleaner .
瓜秧