Channing, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Channing, 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 Channing 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 Channing — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
No card required · your full report in seconds
Channing — the short answer
Channing, Texas: USDA zone 7a, about 209 days between hard freezes, across 635 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~209
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 635 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 7a is Channing's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Channing's 209-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Channing
Each reading below is measured for Channing itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredChanning runs about 209 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
MeasuredChanning sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Channing is in
Channing sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Channing's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Hartley County is mostly High Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Channing
Every plant below cleared Channing's own zone 7a and its 209-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Channing?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — 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 Channing
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Channing. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DAVID OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- LL-07-22-201Nitrate · 3.2 mi
- NATURAL PRAIRIE DAIRY FARMSCAFO · 6.6 mi
- LL-07-14-502Nitrate · 8.8 mi
- CONSOLIDATED DAIRYCAFO · 9.2 mi
- TMC DAIRIESCAFO · 9.8 mi
Measured from Channing'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 Channing.
Total Sites
8
within ~10 miles of Channing
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
3 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Channing
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Channing
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
Check your specific parcel in Channing
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 Channing average
Your land is one point inside Channing
Everything above resolves to Channing as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 635 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 city 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 Channing Average
Channing Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Channing
- ●One soil character for all of Channing
- ●Frost dates read at Channing's scale: Apr 6 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Channing's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Channing
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Channing, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Channing averages can't show:
We read public map data around Channing — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Channing average
How we know this about Channing
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Channing’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Channing
When does frost risk typically end in Channing?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Channing typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Channing?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Channing typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 209 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Channing?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Channing sees about 209 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 18, about 174 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Channing?
The federal record around Channing is light — 8 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (4), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Channing?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Channing's scale — its 7a band and its 209-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Channing'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 Channing’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Channing's own scale — its own ~209-day season between 28°F freezes, the 635 acres it covers and 8 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Channing's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Channing's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Nov 1 and the ~209-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 8 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Channing, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Channing's boundary and the 635 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~209-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Channing sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Channing's 635 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hartley County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hartley 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 Hartley County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Channing's 635 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Channing you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 635 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 Channing-wide figureread your own land →