Llano del Medio, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Llano del Medio, 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 Llano del Medio lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Llano del Medio — the short answer
Llano del Medio, New Mexico: USDA zone 6b, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- 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 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 6b is Llano del Medio's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Llano del Medio's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Llano del Medio
Each reading below is measured for Llano del Medio itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLlano del Medio runs about 201 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
MeasuredLlano del Medio sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Llano del Medio is in
Llano del Medio sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Llano del Medio's own centroid rather than borrowed from Guadalupe County.
What Grows in Llano del Medio
Every plant below cleared Llano del Medio's own zone 6b and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Llano del Medio?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. 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 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Llano del Medio
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Llano del Medio. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LILLIES CAFE AND GROUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- ABERCROMBIE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- SANDOVAL 66Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- SILVER MOON TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- PILOT TRAVEL CENTER # 1070Underground Storage Tanks · 8.3 mi
- MONTOYA EMERGENCY GENERATORUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.7 mi
- SANTA ROSA MUNICIPAL AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.7 mi
Measured from Llano del Medio'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 Llano del Medio.
Total Sites
7
within ~10 miles of Llano del Medio
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
7 underground storage tanks
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Llano del Medio
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
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Your land is one point inside Llano del Medio
Everything above resolves to Llano del Medio as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Llano del Medio Average
Llano del Medio Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Llano del Medio
- ●One soil character for all of Llano del Medio
- ●Frost dates read at Llano del Medio's scale: Apr 11 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Llano del Medio's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Llano del Medio — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Llano del Medio
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 Llano del Medio’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 Llano del Medio
When does frost risk typically end in Llano del Medio?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Llano del Medio 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 Llano del Medio?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Llano del Medio typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Llano del Medio?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Llano del Medio sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 15, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Llano del Medio?
The federal record around Llano del Medio is light — 7 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (7), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.4 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 Llano del Medio?
From about Sep 29 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 29 (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 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Llano del Medio's scale — its 6b band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Llano del Medio'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 Llano del Medio’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Llano del Medio's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,224 acres it covers and 7 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Llano del Medio's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Llano del Medio's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Oct 29 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 7 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Llano del Medio, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Llano del Medio's boundary and the 1,224 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Llano del Medio's own centroid, the Southwestern TablelandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Llano del Medio's 1,224 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Guadalupe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Llano del Medio's 1,224 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Llano del Medio you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,224 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.4 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 Llano del Medio-wide figureread your own land →
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