Most vegetables grow very well in their season here as long as they are protected from 15 to 30 mph gusty winds, especially in spring. Most well water is high quality.
Many towns use water from Lake Meredith which has elevated soluble salts.
Thirty-degree swings between day and night temperature make for warm to hot days and cool nights all through the growing season of over 200 days. Drying winds and temperatures reaching mid to high 80s in April and May make survival of newly transplanted vegetables and successful greens growers heavily dependent on windbreaks. Winds moderate during summer and fall days are relatively calm and very sunny. It has been said that fall seems to just go on forever here. Here, successful gardeners are mulchers, drip irrigators, windbreak makers, and eternal optimists.