Whether the crops grow well or badly depends also on how the work is done.

庄稼长得好坏，也要看活的粗细。

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Crops grow well in the south.

庄稼在南方生长得很好。

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Crops grow well in the field.

田地里的庄稼长得很好。

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The results showed that well-managed hoop houses can grow high-quality crops.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

Well, now one of the things farmers in history discovered is that it's very hard to do well as a farmer if all you do is grow the crops, because people normally don't use what you grow in the form in which you grow it.

关于农民我们在历史上能够得知的一件事是,当好农民很困难,特别是只种农作物的农民,因为人们一般不会将,你从地里种出来的东西留作种子

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However,crops are not the only things that grow well.

VOA: special.2009.12.22

The settlers worked hard, clearing the forests along the valley floors, and making their living from livestock in a region where few crops grow well, but Alpine meadows are pasture for goats and cattle which produce unrivalled milk and cheese.

BBC: Hiking the Alpine Walserweg trail

Well, initial crops would need to be small in stature and grow well in controlled environments with artificial light.

CNN: To boldly grow where no one has grown before