Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
The conditions favor cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Tesuque Pueblo, 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 Tesuque Pueblo lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Tesuque Pueblo — the short answer
Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico: USDA zone 6b, about 192 days between hard freezes, across 1K 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
- 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 Tesuque Pueblo's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tesuque Pueblo's 192-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tesuque Pueblo
Each reading below is measured for Tesuque Pueblo itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTesuque Pueblo 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
MeasuredTesuque Pueblo 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 Tesuque Pueblo is in
Tesuque Pueblo sits in the Arizona/New Mexico Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Tesuque Pueblo's own centroid rather than borrowed from Santa Fe County.
What Grows in Tesuque Pueblo
Every plant below cleared Tesuque Pueblo'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 Tesuque Pueblo?
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.
Documented around Tesuque Pueblo
Survey cells within 31 miles of Tesuque Pueblo checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 436 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Tesuque Pueblo
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tesuque Pueblo. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 18N.09E.10.320Nitrate · 2000 ft
- Seed Bank WellNitrate · 1.4 mi
- POJOAQUE SOUTHPFAS · 1.5 mi
- 18N.09E.23.22211Nitrate · 2.4 mi
- HIGH MESA ENVIRONMENTAL, LLCBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- 18N.09E.24.413Nitrate · 3.3 mi
- ROUFF JEAN MARCELUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- 18N.09E.24.344Nitrate · 3.4 mi
- SPIRITUS TECHNOLOGIESBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- 18N.08E.13.224Nitrate · 3.7 mi
- 18N.09E.25.241Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- SHIDONI FOUNDRY INCToxics Release Inventory · 4.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tesuque Pueblo'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 Tesuque Pueblo.
Total Sites
266
within ~10 miles of Tesuque Pueblo
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tesuque Pueblo
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tesuque Pueblo
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tesuque Pueblo, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Tesuque Pueblo — Superfund (5 sites) and Nitrate (104 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Tesuque Pueblo
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Your land is one point inside Tesuque Pueblo
Everything above resolves to Tesuque Pueblo 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 Tesuque Pueblo Average
Tesuque Pueblo Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Tesuque Pueblo
- ●One soil character for all of Tesuque Pueblo
- ●Frost dates read at Tesuque Pueblo's scale: Apr 17 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tesuque Pueblo's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tesuque Pueblo
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tesuque Pueblo, New Mexico — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tesuque Pueblo averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tesuque Pueblo — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tesuque Pueblo average
How we know this about Tesuque Pueblo
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 Tesuque Pueblo’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 Tesuque Pueblo
When does frost risk typically end in Tesuque Pueblo?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tesuque Pueblo 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 Tesuque Pueblo?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tesuque Pueblo 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 Tesuque Pueblo?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tesuque Pueblo 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 Tesuque Pueblo?
The federal record around Tesuque Pueblo is a meaningful one — 266 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (108), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 I protect my plants from frost in Tesuque Pueblo?
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 Tesuque Pueblo's scale — its 6b band and its 192-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tesuque Pueblo'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 Tesuque Pueblo’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Tesuque Pueblo's own scale — its own ~192-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,407 acres it covers and 266 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tesuque Pueblo's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tesuque Pueblo's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 17 and Oct 26 and the ~192-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 266 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tesuque Pueblo, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tesuque Pueblo's boundary and the 1,407 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 Tesuque Pueblo's own centroid, the Arizona/New Mexico PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Tesuque Pueblo checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tesuque Pueblo's 1,407 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Santa Fe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tesuque Pueblo's 1,407 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tesuque Pueblo you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,407 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 Tesuque Pueblo-wide figureread your own land →