Blue Berry Hill, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Growers here do well with okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Blue Berry Hill, 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 Blue Berry Hill lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Blue Berry Hill — the short answer
Blue Berry Hill, Texas: USDA zone 9b, about 319 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 27
- Bee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 12
- Bee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~319
- Bee County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 2K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Bee County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Blue Berry Hill's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Blue Berry Hill's 319-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Blue Berry Hill
Each reading below is measured for Blue Berry Hill itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBlue Berry Hill runs about 319 days between hard freezes (read from Bee County, the closest normal to Blue Berry Hill) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBlue Berry Hill sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b.
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 Blue Berry Hill is in
Blue Berry Hill sits in the East Central Texas Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Blue Berry Hill's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bee County.
What Grows in Blue Berry Hill
Every plant below cleared Blue Berry Hill's own zone 9b and its 319-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Blue Berry Hill?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 12 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Blue Berry Hill
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Blue Berry Hill. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- AW-79-42-202Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- BEEVILLE MUNICIPAL AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- BIG COUNTRY 102Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- BEEVILLE VALEROUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- ROGUE WASTE RECOVERY BEEVILLEBrownfields · 1.6 mi
- NEAL ONE STOP FOOD STORE 46Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- S & H GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- WEST SIDE DRIVE INN GROUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- CIRCLE K STORE 2706986Underground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- KNICK-KNACK OIL HUTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- CBS GROCERY FFP 608Underground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- CITY YARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Blue Berry Hill'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 Blue Berry Hill.
Total Sites
190
within ~10 miles of Blue Berry Hill
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Blue Berry Hill
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Blue Berry Hill
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Blue Berry Hill, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 66 sites within ~10 miles of Blue Berry Hill. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Blue Berry Hill
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 Blue Berry Hill average
Your land is one point inside Blue Berry Hill
Everything above resolves to Blue Berry Hill as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Bee County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Blue Berry Hill Average
Blue Berry Hill Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Blue Berry Hill
- ●One soil character for all of Blue Berry Hill
- ●Frost dates read at Blue Berry Hill's scale: Jan 27 to Dec 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Blue Berry Hill's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Blue Berry Hill
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Blue Berry Hill, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Blue Berry Hill averages can't show:
We read public map data around Blue Berry Hill — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Blue Berry Hill average
How we know this about Blue Berry Hill
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 Bee County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Blue Berry Hill
When does frost risk typically end in Blue Berry Hill?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Blue Berry Hill typically lands around Jan 27, 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 Feb 17.
When is the first frost in Blue Berry Hill?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Blue Berry Hill typically arrives around Dec 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 28, so the watching starts about Nov 12 — about 319 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Blue Berry Hill?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Blue Berry Hill sees about 319 frost-free days — roughly Jan 27 through Dec 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 17 to Nov 28, about 284 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Blue Berry Hill?
The federal record around Blue Berry Hill is a meaningful one — 190 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (108), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.9 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 Blue Berry Hill?
From about Nov 12 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 Dec 12 (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 Dec 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Blue Berry Hill's scale — its 9b band and its 319-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Blue Berry Hill'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 Blue Berry Hill’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Blue Berry Hill's own scale — the 1,864 acres it covers and 190 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Blue Berry Hill's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 190 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Blue Berry Hill, the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Blue Berry Hill's boundary and the 1,864 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~319-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Blue Berry Hill's own centroid, the East Central Texas PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Blue Berry Hill has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Bee County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Blue Berry Hill's 1,864 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bee 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 Bee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Blue Berry Hill's 1,864 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Blue Berry Hill you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,864 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 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 Blue Berry Hill-wide figureread your own land →
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