Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Soil Temperatures, Do They Matter?

 


   Last year I told you about a weather station located in Stephenville that is great to use.  If you will go to this website, https://wcc.sc.egov.usda.gov/nwcc/site?sitenum=2203 you will be able to get air temperature, soil temperature and humidity, perfect for knowing when to plant any crop. Here are a few examples, corn 50, sorghum 60, cotton 65, okra 70, bermudagrass 70, carrots 45, tomato 65.

    The temperatures on the website are in Celsius, but to convert multiply the number times 1.8 and add 32.   So a 20 temperature is 20*1.8 equals 36 + 32 equals 68.


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