Adelino, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Adelino, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Adelino lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Adelino — the short answer
Adelino, New Mexico: USDA zone 7a, about 199 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~199
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7a is Adelino's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Adelino's 199-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Adelino
Each reading below is measured for Adelino itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAdelino runs about 199 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredAdelino sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Adelino is in
Adelino sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Adelino's own centroid rather than borrowed from Valencia County.
What Grows in Adelino
Every plant below cleared Adelino's own zone 7a and its 199-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Adelino?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Adelino
Survey cells within 31 miles of Adelino checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 474 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Adelino
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Adelino. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- VALLEJOS GAS AND OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- BELEN SAND AND GRAVELUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- CATTLEMENS LIVESTOCK AUCTIONCAFO · 1.6 mi
- NEW MEXICO TRACTOR SALESBrownfields · 1.6 mi
- RAM COLLISIONBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- FOX LP GAS CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- ALLSUPS - NO137Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- PAULS PLACEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- TESORO WEST COAST CO MIRASTAR 64029Underground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- WALMART SUPERCENTER #1414Brownfields · 2.3 mi
- BELEN CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS - SUPPORT SERVICESBrownfields · 2.5 mi
- RIO VALLEY RENTALUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Adelino's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Adelino.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Adelino
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Adelino
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Adelino, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Adelino — Nitrate (68 sites) and Superfund (3 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Adelino
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Adelino
Everything above resolves to Adelino as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Adelino Average
Adelino Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Adelino
- ●One soil character for all of Adelino
- ●Frost dates read at Adelino's scale: Apr 11 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Adelino's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Adelino
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Adelino, New Mexico — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Adelino averages can't show:
We read public map data around Adelino — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Adelino average
How we know this about Adelino
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Adelino’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Adelino
When does frost risk typically end in Adelino?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Adelino typically lands around Apr 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about May 2.
When is the first frost in Adelino?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Adelino typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 199 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Adelino?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Adelino sees about 199 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 13, about 164 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Adelino?
The federal record around Adelino is a meaningful one — 232 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (95), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Adelino?
From about Sep 27 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Oct 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Oct 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Adelino's scale — its 7a band and its 199-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Adelino's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Adelino’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Adelino's own scale — its own ~199-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,910 acres it covers and 232 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Adelino's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Adelino's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Oct 27 and the ~199-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 232 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Adelino, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Adelino's boundary and the 1,910 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~199-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Adelino's own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Adelino checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Adelino's 1,910 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Valencia County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Valencia County
- The growing challenges every New Mexico grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New Mexico
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Valencia County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Adelino's 1,910 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Adelino you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,910 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Adelino-wide figureread your own land →