Mosquero, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Mosquero, 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 Mosquero lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mosquero — the short answer
Mosquero, New Mexico: USDA zone 6b, about 192 days between hard freezes, across 639 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~192
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 639 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 Mosquero's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mosquero's 192-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mosquero
Each reading below is measured for Mosquero itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMosquero runs about 192 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredMosquero 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 Mosquero is in
Mosquero sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Mosquero's own centroid rather than borrowed from Harding County.
What Grows in Mosquero
Every plant below cleared Mosquero's own zone 6b and its 192-day season. Each card opens that plant's New Mexico profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mosquero?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Mosquero
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mosquero. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CLARK OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- MOSQUERO MUNICIPAL SCHOOLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- VALLEY PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- PATS SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- 18N.28E.03.433Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- 18N.27E.14.212422Nitrate · 4.6 mi
- 19N.28E.36.221Nitrate · 5.0 mi
- 18N.27E.14.111Nitrate · 5.4 mi
- 19N.29E.19.342Nitrate · 6.6 mi
- 17N.29E.09.441Nitrate · 6.9 mi
- 19N.29E.18.343Nitrate · 7.1 mi
- AMERIGAS INC C02 DIVISIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.2 mi
1 more site is on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mosquero'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 Mosquero.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mosquero
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.
Check your specific parcel in Mosquero
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 Mosquero
Everything above resolves to Mosquero as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 639 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 Mosquero Average
Mosquero Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Mosquero
- ●One soil character for all of Mosquero
- ●Frost dates read at Mosquero's scale: Apr 17 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mosquero's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Mosquero — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mosquero average
How we know this about Mosquero
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 Mosquero’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 Mosquero
When does frost risk typically end in Mosquero?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mosquero typically lands around Apr 17, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Mosquero?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mosquero typically arrives around Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 12, so the watching starts about Sep 26 — about 192 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mosquero?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mosquero sees about 192 frost-free days — roughly Apr 17 through Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 8 to Oct 12, about 157 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mosquero?
The federal record around Mosquero is light — 20 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (14), 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 Mosquero?
From about Sep 26 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mosquero's scale — its 6b band and its 192-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mosquero'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 Mosquero’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Mosquero's own scale — its own ~192-day season between 28°F freezes, the 639 acres it covers and 20 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mosquero's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mosquero's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 17 and Oct 26 and the ~192-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 20 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mosquero, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mosquero's boundary and the 639 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~192-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mosquero's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mosquero's 639 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Harding County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Harding 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 Harding County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mosquero's 639 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mosquero you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 639 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 Mosquero-wide figureread your own land →
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