Morning Glory, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Morning Glory, 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 Morning Glory lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Morning Glory — the short answer
Morning Glory, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 266 days between hard freezes, across 687 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~266
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 687 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 8a is Morning Glory's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Morning Glory's 266-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Morning Glory
Each reading below is measured for Morning Glory itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMorning Glory runs about 266 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
MeasuredMorning Glory sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Morning Glory is in
Morning Glory sits in the Chihuahuan Deserts — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Morning Glory's own centroid rather than borrowed from El Paso County.
What Grows in Morning Glory
Every plant below cleared Morning Glory's own zone 8a and its 266-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Morning Glory?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 19 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Morning Glory
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Morning Glory. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CLINT TRANSPORTATIONS SERVICESBrownfields · 2100 ft
- BORDERLAND FEEDERSCAFO · 1.0 mi
- LEE MOORE CHILDRENS HOME 2Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- T AND R CHEMICALS INCBrownfields · 1.6 mi
- C&R FUEL CONTROL 46Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- NAHOKOS DRUMSBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- CLINT EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- CLINT CENTRAL OFFICE XA0022Underground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- 7 ELEVEN 53318Underground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- QUICK & EASY CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- CUMMINS SALES AND SERVICE EL PASOBrownfields · 2.4 mi
- SCHOOL BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Morning Glory'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 Morning Glory.
Total Sites
151
within ~10 miles of Morning Glory
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
13 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Morning Glory
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Morning Glory
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Morning Glory, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Morning Glory — PFAS (4 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (13 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Morning Glory
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Your land is one point inside Morning Glory
Everything above resolves to Morning Glory as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 687 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 Morning Glory Average
Morning Glory Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Morning Glory
- ●One soil character for all of Morning Glory
- ●Frost dates read at Morning Glory's scale: Feb 26 to Nov 19
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Morning Glory's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Morning Glory
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Morning Glory, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Morning Glory averages can't show:
We read public map data around Morning Glory — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Morning Glory average
How we know this about Morning Glory
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 Morning Glory’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 Morning Glory
When does frost risk typically end in Morning Glory?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Morning Glory typically lands around Feb 26, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Morning Glory?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Morning Glory typically arrives around Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 5, so the watching starts about Oct 20 — about 266 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Morning Glory?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Morning Glory sees about 266 frost-free days — roughly Feb 26 through Nov 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 19 to Nov 5, about 231 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Morning Glory?
The federal record around Morning Glory is a meaningful one — 151 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (88), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.4 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 Morning Glory?
From about Oct 20 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 19 (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 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Morning Glory's scale — its 8a band and its 266-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Morning Glory'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 Morning Glory’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Morning Glory's own scale — its own ~266-day season between 28°F freezes, the 687 acres it covers and 151 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Morning Glory's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Morning Glory's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Feb 26 and Nov 19 and the ~266-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 151 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Morning Glory, the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Morning Glory's boundary and the 687 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~266-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Morning Glory's own centroid, the Chihuahuan DesertsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Morning Glory's 687 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 Morning Glory's 687 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Morning Glory you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 687 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 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 Morning Glory-wide figureread your own land →