House, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in House, 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 House lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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House — the short answer
House, New Mexico: USDA zone 7a, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 585 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 585 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 House's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against House's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in House
Each reading below is measured for House itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHouse runs about 213 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
MeasuredHouse 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 House is in
House sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at House's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Quay County is mostly Southwestern Tablelands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in House
Every plant below cleared House's own zone 7a and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in House?
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 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near House
Closest first, within ~10 miles of House. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MARTIN SALES AND SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- 05N.29E.20.13130Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- 05N.29E.06.444Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- NEW MEXICO WIND ENERGY CENTERBrownfields · 6.3 mi
- CARDENAS RUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- TAIBAN RUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
Measured from House'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 House.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of House
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •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.
Check your specific parcel in House
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 House
Everything above resolves to House as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 585 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 House Average
House Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across House
- ●One soil character for all of House
- ●Frost dates read at House's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not House's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in House
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in House, New Mexico — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around House — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about House
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 House’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 House
When does frost risk typically end in House?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in House typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in House?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in House typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in House?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, House sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 20, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in House?
The federal record around House is light — 8 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (4), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in House?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at House's scale — its 7a band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of House'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 House’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at House's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 585 acres it covers and 8 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- House's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- House's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 3 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 8 documented contamination sites on the federal record near House, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- House's boundary and the 585 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- House sits in the High Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so House's 585 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Quay County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Quay 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 Quay County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among House's 585 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of House you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 585 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 House-wide figureread your own land →
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