Bledsoe, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bledsoe, 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 Bledsoe lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bledsoe — the short answer
Bledsoe, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 220 days between hard freezes, across 228 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~220
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 228 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 Bledsoe's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bledsoe's 220-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bledsoe
Each reading below is measured for Bledsoe itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBledsoe runs about 220 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
MeasuredBledsoe 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 Bledsoe is in
Bledsoe sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Bledsoe's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cochran County.
What Grows in Bledsoe
Every plant below cleared Bledsoe's own zone 7b and its 220-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bledsoe?
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 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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.
Environmental Check
No contamination sources found near Bledsoe
We checked 9 federal environmental databases and found no recorded contamination sites in this area. A clean starting point for growing.
Your land is one point inside Bledsoe
Everything above resolves to Bledsoe as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 228 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 Bledsoe Average
Bledsoe Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Bledsoe
- ●One soil character for all of Bledsoe
- ●Frost dates read at Bledsoe's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bledsoe's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bledsoe
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bledsoe, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bledsoe averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bledsoe — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bledsoe average
How we know this about Bledsoe
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 Bledsoe’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 Bledsoe
When does frost risk typically end in Bledsoe?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bledsoe typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Bledsoe?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bledsoe typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 220 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bledsoe?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bledsoe sees about 220 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 23, about 185 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bledsoe?
No database can certify soil, but the federal record here is clean: we checked all 9 federal contamination source types and found no documented sites within the search radii around Bledsoe. That means nothing is on record — not that the land is certified clean — so a one-time soil test is still the way to know your own yard's history.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Bledsoe?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bledsoe's scale — its 7b band and its 220-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bledsoe'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 Bledsoe’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Bledsoe's own scale — its own ~220-day season between 28°F freezes and the 228 acres it covers; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bledsoe's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bledsoe's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 6 and the ~220-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- Bledsoe's boundary and the 228 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~220-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bledsoe's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bledsoe's 228 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cochran County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cochran County
- The growing challenges every Texas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Texas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Cochran County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bledsoe's 228 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bledsoe you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 228 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How much sun your beds actually get once the trees leaf outmeasuring sun honestly →
- 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 Bledsoe-wide figureread your own land →