Homestead Meadows North, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Homestead Meadows North, 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 Homestead Meadows North lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Homestead Meadows North — the short answer
Homestead Meadows North, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 278 days between hard freezes, across 10K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~278
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 10K 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 8b is Homestead Meadows North's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Homestead Meadows North's 278-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Homestead Meadows North
Each reading below is measured for Homestead Meadows North itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHomestead Meadows North runs about 278 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredHomestead Meadows North sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Homestead Meadows North is in
Homestead Meadows North sits in the Chihuahuan Deserts — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Homestead Meadows North's own centroid rather than borrowed from El Paso County.
What Grows in Homestead Meadows North
Every plant below cleared Homestead Meadows North's own zone 8b and its 278-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Homestead Meadows North?
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 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — 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.
Documented around Homestead Meadows North
Survey cells within 31 miles of Homestead Meadows North checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 647 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Homestead Meadows North
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Homestead Meadows North. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LA MODERNAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- QUICK SILVER EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- EL PASO COUNTY ROAD & BRIDGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- JARVIS LIQUORUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- AVAIL SURPLUS METALSBrownfields · 2.6 mi
- MONTANA VISTA FIRE RESCUEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- SAFETY-KLEEN SYSTEMSBrownfields · 2.7 mi
- GRAYMAR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICESBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- FUEL DEPOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- THERMACYCLEBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- MONTANA POWER STATIONBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- MONTANA POWER STATIONToxics Release Inventory · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Homestead Meadows North'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 Homestead Meadows North.
Total Sites
116
within ~10 miles of Homestead Meadows North
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Homestead Meadows North
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Homestead Meadows North
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 Homestead Meadows North
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Your land is one point inside Homestead Meadows North
Everything above resolves to Homestead Meadows North as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 10K 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 Homestead Meadows North Average
Homestead Meadows North Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Homestead Meadows North
- ●One soil character for all of Homestead Meadows North
- ●Frost dates read at Homestead Meadows North's scale: Feb 21 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Homestead Meadows North's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Homestead Meadows North
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Homestead Meadows North, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Homestead Meadows North averages can't show:
We read public map data around Homestead Meadows North — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Homestead Meadows North average
How we know this about Homestead Meadows North
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 Homestead Meadows North’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 Homestead Meadows North
When does frost risk typically end in Homestead Meadows North?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Homestead Meadows North typically lands around Feb 21, 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 Mar 14.
When is the first frost in Homestead Meadows North?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Homestead Meadows North typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 278 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Homestead Meadows North?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Homestead Meadows North sees about 278 frost-free days — roughly Feb 21 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 14 to Nov 12, about 243 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Homestead Meadows North?
The federal record around Homestead Meadows North is a meaningful one — 116 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (60), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 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 Homestead Meadows North?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Homestead Meadows North's scale — its 8b band and its 278-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Homestead Meadows North'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 Homestead Meadows North’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Homestead Meadows North's own scale — its own ~278-day season between 28°F freezes, the 9,976 acres it covers and 116 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Homestead Meadows North's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Homestead Meadows North's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 21 and Nov 26 and the ~278-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 116 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Homestead Meadows North, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Homestead Meadows North's boundary and the 9,976 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~278-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Homestead Meadows North's own centroid, the Chihuahuan DesertsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Homestead Meadows North checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Homestead Meadows North's 9,976 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom El Paso County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom El Paso 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 El Paso County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Homestead Meadows North's 9,976 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Homestead Meadows North you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 9,976 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 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 Homestead Meadows North-wide figureread your own land →