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37. I used to be a Master Gardener. One woman was constantly calling wanting to grow "tropical this and tropical that".

Thu Jan 9, 2025, 02:37 AM

Jan 2025

One days she calls asking, "I wanna know the best citrus for New Mexico?" I respond, "None. You're better off staying here".

I'm in San Antonio and we can grow citrus here. (Although we can't grow much more than mandarins reliably)

She really thought that New Mexico had a climate like Mexico! (She was Latina, but not very bright). I finally had to tell her that the Rio Grande Valley (Brownsville etc) had the closest thing to a tropical climate in Texas.

She seriously was thinking of moving to New Mexico from San Antonio to grow tropical plants!

You can't even grow citrus in El Paso, much less New Mexico.

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