Taylor Ferry, Oklahoma, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Growers here do well with cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Taylor Ferry, 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 Taylor Ferry lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Taylor Ferry — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
No card required · your full report in seconds
Taylor Ferry — the short answer
Taylor Ferry, Oklahoma: USDA zone 7b, about 239 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 19
- 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
- ~239
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 Taylor Ferry's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Taylor Ferry's 239-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Taylor Ferry
Each reading below is measured for Taylor Ferry itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTaylor Ferry runs about 239 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
MeasuredTaylor Ferry 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 Taylor Ferry is in
Taylor Ferry sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Taylor Ferry's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wagoner County.
What Grows in Taylor Ferry
Every plant below cleared Taylor Ferry's own zone 7b and its 239-day season. Each card opens that plant's Oklahoma profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Taylor Ferry?
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 Feb 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 19 (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. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Taylor Ferry
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Taylor Ferry. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Morgans CornerUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Melba's One StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Lake Food MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Bonus 22Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Toppers County CornerUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- Toppers One StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- Wagoner AirportUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- Sequoyah State ParkUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- Former Leonard & Vi SpencerUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- East Stop Food StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- Former Bob's Fish N Fowl RestUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- Green Country GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Taylor Ferry'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 Taylor Ferry.
Total Sites
116
within ~10 miles of Taylor Ferry
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
8 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Taylor Ferry
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Taylor Ferry
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Taylor Ferry, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Taylor Ferry — PFAS (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (86 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Taylor Ferry
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 Taylor Ferry average
Your land is one point inside Taylor Ferry
Everything above resolves to Taylor Ferry as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Taylor Ferry Average
Taylor Ferry Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Taylor Ferry
- ●One soil character for all of Taylor Ferry
- ●Frost dates read at Taylor Ferry's scale: Mar 19 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Taylor Ferry's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Taylor Ferry
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Taylor Ferry, Oklahoma — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Taylor Ferry averages can't show:
We read public map data around Taylor Ferry — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Taylor Ferry average
How we know this about Taylor Ferry
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 Taylor Ferry’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 Taylor Ferry
When does frost risk typically end in Taylor Ferry?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Taylor Ferry typically lands around Mar 19, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Taylor Ferry?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Taylor Ferry 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 239 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Taylor Ferry?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Taylor Ferry sees about 239 frost-free days — roughly Mar 19 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 9 to Oct 30, about 204 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Taylor Ferry?
The federal record around Taylor Ferry shows 116 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (86), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 I protect my plants from frost in Taylor Ferry?
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 Taylor Ferry's scale — its 7b band and its 239-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Taylor Ferry'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 Taylor Ferry’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Taylor Ferry's own scale — its own ~239-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,024 acres it covers and 116 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Taylor Ferry's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Taylor Ferry's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 19 and Nov 13 and the ~239-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 116 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Taylor Ferry, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Taylor Ferry's boundary and the 4,024 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~239-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Taylor Ferry's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Taylor Ferry's 4,024 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wagoner County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wagoner 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 Wagoner County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Taylor Ferry's 4,024 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Taylor Ferry you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,024 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.7 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 Taylor Ferry-wide figureread your own land →
More in Oklahoma
Wider growing context
What grows across OklahomaTaylor Ferry sits outside our named growing regions, so Oklahoma as a whole is its closest context here.
Nearby growing guides