Lindrith, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, blackberry, 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 Lindrith, 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 Lindrith lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lindrith — the short answer
Lindrith, New Mexico: USDA zone 6a, about 136 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 20
- 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
- ~136
- 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 6a is Lindrith's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lindrith's 136-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lindrith
Each reading below is measured for Lindrith itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLindrith runs about 136 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
MeasuredLindrith sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Lindrith is in
Lindrith sits in the Southern Rockies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at Lindrith's own centroid rather than borrowed from Rio Arriba County.
What Grows in Lindrith
Every plant below cleared Lindrith's own zone 6a and its 136-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lindrith?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 20 (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 Lindrith
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lindrith. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 24N 02W 16.242Nitrate · 2500 ft
- LINDRITH FIELD PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- OJITO CAMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- 24N.02W.16.444Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- 24N.02W.02.334Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- 24N.02W.34.111Nitrate · 2.9 mi
- 25N.03W.12.442Nitrate · 6.9 mi
- 23N.02W.13.333Nitrate · 7.0 mi
- AmericanMining · 7.0 mi
- ArroyaMining · 7.0 mi
- 23N.03W.10.42 BIA DULCENitrate · 7.5 mi
- 23N.03W.11.3332Nitrate · 7.7 mi
2 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lindrith'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 Lindrith.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lindrith
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lindrith
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.
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
Check your specific parcel in Lindrith
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lindrith average
Your land is one point inside Lindrith
Everything above resolves to Lindrith 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 Lindrith Average
Lindrith Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Lindrith
- ●One soil character for all of Lindrith
- ●Frost dates read at Lindrith's scale: May 20 to Oct 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lindrith's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lindrith
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Three things about your lot that Lindrith averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lindrith — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lindrith average
How we know this about Lindrith
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 Lindrith’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 Lindrith
When does frost risk typically end in Lindrith?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lindrith typically lands around May 20, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Lindrith?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lindrith 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 136 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lindrith?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lindrith sees about 136 frost-free days — roughly May 20 through Oct 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 10 to Sep 19, about 101 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lindrith?
The federal record around Lindrith shows 23 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (18), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.5 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do gardeners stretch the season in Lindrith?
With about 136 frost-free days between hard freezes, Lindrith 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 164 to 192 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 20 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at Lindrith's scale — its 6a band and its 136-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lindrith'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 Lindrith’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lindrith's own scale — its own ~136-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,330 acres it covers and 23 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lindrith's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lindrith's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 20 and Oct 3 and the ~136-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 23 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lindrith, the closest Nitrate record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lindrith's boundary and the 2,330 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~136-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lindrith's own centroid, the Southern RockiesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lindrith's 2,330 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 Lindrith's 2,330 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lindrith you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,330 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.5 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 Lindrith-wide figureread your own land →
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