Gallina, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Gallina, 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 Gallina lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Gallina — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Gallina — the short answer
Gallina, New Mexico: USDA zone 5b, about 138 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~138
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 5b is Gallina's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Gallina's 138-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Gallina
Each reading below is measured for Gallina itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGallina runs about 138 days between hard freezes — a short growing season.
Long-maturing crops like melons, sweet potatoes, and winter squash can run out of runway before the first hard freeze, ripening late or not at all.
Lead with fast-maturing varieties, and stretch the season on both ends with cold frames, low tunnels, or a greenhouse.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredGallina sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Gallina is in
Gallina sits in the Southern Rockies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Gallina's own centroid rather than borrowed from Rio Arriba County.
What Grows in Gallina
Every plant below cleared Gallina's own zone 5b and its 138-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Gallina?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 3 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a season this compact, fast finishers and cold-hardy greens do the late work, and garlic tucked in before the freeze repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Gallina
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Gallina. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KOUNTRY KWIK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- ConquerorMining · 1.2 mi
- Capulin ProspectMining · 1.6 mi
- GALLINA GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- Tjbd 1Mining · 3.6 mi
- White Flow #1 MineMining · 3.8 mi
- WhitefloMining · 4.0 mi
- Gallina ProspectMining · 4.6 mi
- 23N.01W.27.233Nitrate · 6.2 mi
- BRETHREN NAVAJO MISSIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- ArroyaMining · 7.4 mi
- AmericanMining · 7.4 mi
4 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Gallina'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 Gallina.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Gallina
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Gallina
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Gallina
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 Gallina
Everything above resolves to Gallina as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Gallina Average
Gallina Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Gallina
- ●One soil character for all of Gallina
- ●Frost dates read at Gallina's scale: May 18 to Oct 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Gallina's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Gallina
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We read public map data around Gallina — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Gallina average
How we know this about Gallina
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 Gallina’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 Gallina
When does frost risk typically end in Gallina?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Gallina typically lands around May 18, 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 Jun 8.
When is the first frost in Gallina?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Gallina typically arrives around Oct 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 19, so the watching starts about Sep 3 — about 138 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Gallina?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Gallina sees about 138 frost-free days — roughly May 18 through Oct 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 8 to Sep 19, about 103 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Gallina?
The federal record around Gallina is a meaningful one — 17 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (9), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 gardeners stretch the season in Gallina?
With about 138 frost-free days between hard freezes, Gallina rewards the classic extension moves: floating row cover buys roughly two to four extra weeks at each shoulder — on this season that is a working window nearer 166 to 194 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 18 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Gallina's scale — its 5b band and its 138-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Gallina'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 Gallina’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Gallina's own scale — its own ~138-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,029 acres it covers and 17 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Gallina's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Gallina's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 18 and Oct 3 and the ~138-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 17 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Gallina, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Gallina's boundary and the 4,029 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~138-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Gallina's own centroid, the Southern RockiesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Gallina's 4,029 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Rio Arriba County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Rio Arriba 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 Rio Arriba County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Gallina's 4,029 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Gallina you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,029 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 Gallina-wide figureread your own land →