Pickett, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pickett, 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 Pickett lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pickett — the short answer
Pickett, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 243 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~243
- 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 7b is Pickett's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pickett's 243-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pickett
Each reading below is measured for Pickett itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPickett runs about 243 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
MeasuredPickett sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Pickett is in
Pickett sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Pickett's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pontotoc County.
What Grows in Pickett
Every plant below cleared Pickett's own zone 7b and its 243-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pickett?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 13 — 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 Pickett
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pickett. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Sutton's Town & Country StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- NATIONAL COATING & MFGBrownfields · 1400 ft
- Pickett Center SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Jersey LilyUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- Gene Pettys 66Underground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- Division HeadquartersUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- Howard's Mini-MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- 3W Quick StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- D & V LATE MODEL SALVAGESuperfund · 3.4 mi
- W.E. Reeves Packing Co.Underground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- ADAPFAS · 3.8 mi
- Ada WestMining · 4.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pickett'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 Pickett.
Total Sites
189
within ~10 miles of Pickett
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pickett
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pickett
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pickett, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 141 sites within ~10 miles of Pickett. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Pickett
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 Pickett
Everything above resolves to Pickett 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 Pickett Average
Pickett Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Pickett
- ●One soil character for all of Pickett
- ●Frost dates read at Pickett's scale: Mar 15 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pickett's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pickett
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pickett, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pickett averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pickett — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pickett average
How we know this about Pickett
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 Pickett’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 Pickett
When does frost risk typically end in Pickett?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pickett typically lands around Mar 15, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Pickett?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pickett typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 243 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pickett?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pickett sees about 243 frost-free days — roughly Mar 15 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 5 to Oct 30, about 208 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pickett?
The federal record around Pickett is a meaningful one — 189 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (141), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Pickett?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pickett's scale — its 7b band and its 243-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pickett'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 Pickett’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Pickett's own scale — its own ~243-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,067 acres it covers and 189 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pickett's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pickett's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 15 and Nov 13 and the ~243-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 189 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pickett, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pickett's boundary and the 2,067 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~243-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pickett's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pickett's 2,067 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pontotoc County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pontotoc County
- The growing challenges every Oklahoma grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Oklahoma
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Pontotoc County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pickett's 2,067 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pickett you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,067 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 Pickett-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaPickett sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.