Edith Enclave, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Edith Enclave, 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 Edith Enclave lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Edith Enclave — the short answer
Edith Enclave, New Mexico: USDA zone 7b, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 968 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 968 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 7b is Edith Enclave's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Edith Enclave's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Edith Enclave
Each reading below is measured for Edith Enclave itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEdith Enclave runs about 217 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredEdith Enclave sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Edith Enclave is in
Edith Enclave sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Edith Enclave's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bernalillo County.
What Grows in Edith Enclave
Every plant below cleared Edith Enclave's own zone 7b and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Edith Enclave?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Edith Enclave
Survey cells within 31 miles of Edith Enclave checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 449 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Edith Enclave
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Edith Enclave. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SANDIAToxics Release Inventory · 1800 ft
- CORONADO AIRPORT JOINT VENTUREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 3D GLASS SOLUTIONSToxics Release Inventory · 0.8 mi
- WONIK QUARTZ INTERNATIONAL CORPBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- MIOX-DE NORABrownfields · 0.8 mi
- 3D GLASS SOLUTIONS, INC.Brownfields · 0.8 mi
- SKY SCENES CORONADO AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- CORONADO AIRPORT AUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- 11N.03E.02.33142Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- 12N.03E.35.243Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- 3D GLASS SOLUTIONSBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- STA TECHNOLOGIES INCBrownfields · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Edith Enclave'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 Edith Enclave.
Total Sites
2,437
within ~10 miles of Edith Enclave
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
22 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Edith Enclave
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Edith Enclave
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Edith Enclave
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Your land is one point inside Edith Enclave
Everything above resolves to Edith Enclave as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 968 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 Edith Enclave Average
Edith Enclave Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Edith Enclave
- ●One soil character for all of Edith Enclave
- ●Frost dates read at Edith Enclave's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Edith Enclave's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Edith Enclave
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Edith Enclave, New Mexico — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Edith Enclave averages can't show:
We read public map data around Edith Enclave — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Edith Enclave average
How we know this about Edith Enclave
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 Edith Enclave’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 Edith Enclave
When does frost risk typically end in Edith Enclave?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Edith Enclave typically lands around Apr 1, 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 Apr 22.
When is the first frost in Edith Enclave?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Edith Enclave typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Edith Enclave?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Edith Enclave sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 21, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Edith Enclave?
The federal record around Edith Enclave is a meaningful one — 2,437 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,057), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.3 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 Edith Enclave?
From about Oct 5 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 Nov 4 (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 Nov 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Edith Enclave's scale — its 7b band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Edith Enclave'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 Edith Enclave’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Edith Enclave's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 968 acres it covers and 2,437 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Edith Enclave's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Edith Enclave's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 4 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,437 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Edith Enclave, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Edith Enclave's boundary and the 968 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Edith Enclave's own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Edith Enclave 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 Edith Enclave's 968 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bernalillo County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bernalillo 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 Bernalillo County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Edith Enclave's 968 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Edith Enclave you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 968 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 0.3 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 Edith Enclave-wide figureread your own land →