Botines, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Botines, 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 Botines 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 Botines — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Botines — the short answer
Botines, Texas: USDA zone 9b, about 326 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 25
- Webb County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 17
- Webb County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~326
- Webb County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Webb County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Botines's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Botines's 326-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Botines
Each reading below is measured for Botines itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBotines runs about 326 days between hard freezes (read from Webb County, the closest normal to Botines) — 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
MeasuredBotines 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 Botines is in
Botines sits in the Southern Texas Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Botines's own centroid rather than borrowed from Webb County.
What Grows in Botines
Every plant below cleared Botines's own zone 9b and its 326-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Botines?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. 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 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 17 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Botines
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Botines. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- YZ-85-13-801Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- SOS COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- YZ-85-13-501Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- WAL-MART SUPERCENTER 3623Brownfields · 3.9 mi
- REVEILLE CRYOGENIC PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 4.4 mi
- CASSO FORWARDINGBrownfields · 5.2 mi
- ALLIED FORWARDING CORPBrownfields · 5.4 mi
- FEDEX FREIGHT LRDBrownfields · 5.7 mi
- PENSKE TRUCK LEASING CO., LPBrownfields · 5.7 mi
- PILOT THOMAS LOGISTICS LAREDO MECHANIC SHOPBrownfields · 5.7 mi
- YZ-85-14-401Nitrate · 5.7 mi
- R & J ENVIRONMENTALBrownfields · 5.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Botines'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 Botines.
Total Sites
107
within ~10 miles of Botines
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Botines
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Botines
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Botines
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 Botines
Everything above resolves to Botines as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Webb 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 Botines Average
Botines Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Botines
- ●One soil character for all of Botines
- ●Frost dates read at Botines's scale: Jan 25 to Dec 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Botines's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Botines
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Botines, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Botines averages can't show:
We read public map data around Botines — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Botines average
How we know this about Botines
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 Webb 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 Botines
When does frost risk typically end in Botines?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Botines typically lands around Jan 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Botines?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Botines typically arrives around Dec 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 3, so the watching starts about Nov 17 — about 326 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Botines?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Botines sees about 326 frost-free days — roughly Jan 25 through Dec 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 15 to Dec 3, about 291 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Botines?
The federal record around Botines shows 107 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (65), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.6 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 Botines?
From about Nov 17 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Botines's scale — its 9b band and its 326-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Botines'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 Botines’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Botines's own scale — the 1,217 acres it covers and 107 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Botines's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 107 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Botines, the closest Nitrate record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Botines's boundary and the 1,217 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~326-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Botines's own centroid, the Southern Texas PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Botines has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Webb County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Botines's 1,217 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Webb County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Webb 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 Webb County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Botines's 1,217 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Botines you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,217 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.6 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 Botines-wide figureread your own land →