Soil temperature.

[Gardeneer]

They have huge farms around Dalhart Texas.
Grow all kinds of potatoes.
The elevation is 3,983 feet. almost 4,000 feet.
It is only about 100 miles from Colorado which that part of used to be part of Texas.

Worth

Yeah, sure at 4000ft elevation, near Colorado, the soil temperature should be fine for potato. I was talking about south / SW, S Central Texas panhandle.
So you are right you can grow potatoes in Texas too.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

Yeah, sure at 4000ft elevation, near Colorado, the soil temperature should be fine for potato. I was talking about south / SW, S Central Texas panhandle.
So you are right you can grow potatoes in Texas too.

You cant follow the rules here in Texas, if you did a person would have nothing to show for it with some plants.

There are way too many different climates and elevations here to jumble them all into one group.

Dalhart is in the panhandle.

Right now I am living in a swamp it is raining so much here this year.

This is the lake 1 1/2 miles from my house.
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Worth

[Stvrob]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Salt thats what I buy too.
The big russets are huge.
They are fantastic.
I try to buy made or produced in Texas first and then The US.

Worth

I just bought a big bag of these Texas russets too. The bag says they are from the XIT ranch. The bag even has a map of Texas with the location of the ranch shown on it. I just had one for lunch, these are excellent quality russetts! I think I'll have seconds.

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by Worth1

You cant follow the rules here in Texas, if you did a person would have nothing to show for it with some plants.

There are way too many different climates and elevations here to jumble them all into one group.

Dalhart is in the panhandle.

Right now I am living in a swamp it is raining so much here this year.

This is the lake 1 1/2 miles from my house.




Worth

We were talking about SOIL TEMPERATURE, where you said:

I thought potatoes liked hot soil to set tubers.
That's why Texas is the potato capital of the USA.

Worth

And I said POTATOES do NOT like Hot soil temperature.

So there can be micro climates suitable for growing potatoes and rice ...etc in Texas too.
That was not the point.

[Worth1]

I wouldn't exactly call the Texas Panhandle, (an area bigger than many states) a micro climate.

Worth

[Tracydr]

Originally Posted by Worth1

They have huge farms around Dalhart Texas.
Grow all kinds of potatoes.
The elevation is 3,983 feet. almost 4,000 feet.
It is only about 100 miles from Colorado which that part of used to be part of Texas.

Worth
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I used to work in Guymon a little south of there. They have cool springs. When I first started working there we were basically snowed in from a blizzard in mid-March.

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Tracydr

I used to work in Guymon a little south of there. They have cool springs. When I first started working there we were basically snowed in from a blizzard in mid-March.

I spent the night there once.
A real hopping place.

Worth

[Gardeneer]

Originally Posted by Worth1

I wouldn't exactly call the Texas Panhandle, (an area bigger than many states) a micro climate.

Worth

Of course not.