New Berlin, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in New Berlin, 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 New Berlin lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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New Berlin — the short answer
New Berlin, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 302 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 6
- Guadalupe County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 5
- Guadalupe County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~302
- Guadalupe County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 6K 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 Guadalupe County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is New Berlin's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Berlin's 302-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Berlin
Each reading below is measured for New Berlin itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsNew Berlin runs about 302 days between hard freezes (read from Guadalupe County, the closest normal to New Berlin) — 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
MeasuredNew Berlin sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 New Berlin is in
New Berlin sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at New Berlin's own centroid rather than borrowed from Guadalupe County.
What Grows in New Berlin
Every plant below cleared New Berlin's own zone 9a and its 302-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Berlin?
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 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
Documented around New Berlin
Survey cells within 31 miles of New Berlin checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 643 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near New Berlin
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Berlin. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KX-68-40-105Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- BRIETZKE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- WASTE OIL SERVICESBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- STUCKYS BUILDINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- ZUEHL AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- LUMARCO INCBrownfields · 3.2 mi
- AW TEXASToxics Release Inventory · 3.3 mi
- AW TEXASBrownfields · 3.3 mi
- HERITAGE TRANSPORT MARION TEXASBrownfields · 3.3 mi
- CIBOLO READY MIX PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 3.4 mi
- GVEC WESTERN OPERATIONS CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- SUNMART 167Underground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Berlin'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 New Berlin.
Total Sites
164
within ~10 miles of New Berlin
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
15 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Berlin
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Berlin
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Berlin, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of New Berlin — CAFO (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (15 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in New Berlin
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 New Berlin average
Your land is one point inside New Berlin
Everything above resolves to New Berlin as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 6K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Guadalupe County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’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 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 New Berlin Average
New Berlin Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across New Berlin
- ●One soil character for all of New Berlin
- ●Frost dates read at New Berlin's scale: Feb 6 to Dec 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Berlin's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Berlin
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Berlin, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Berlin averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Berlin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Berlin average
How we know this about New Berlin
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 Guadalupe 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 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 New Berlin
When does frost risk typically end in New Berlin?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Berlin typically lands around Feb 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 Feb 27.
When is the first frost in New Berlin?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Berlin typically arrives around Dec 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 21, so the watching starts about Nov 5 — about 302 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Berlin?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Berlin sees about 302 frost-free days — roughly Feb 6 through Dec 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 27 to Nov 21, about 267 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Berlin?
The federal record around New Berlin shows 164 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (77), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.7 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 New Berlin?
From about Nov 5 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Berlin's scale — its 9a band and its 302-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Berlin'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 New Berlin’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at New Berlin's own scale — the 6,163 acres it covers and 164 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Berlin's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 164 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Berlin, the closest Nitrate record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Berlin's boundary and the 6,163 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~302-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Berlin's own centroid, the Texas Blackland PrairiesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around New Berlin checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — New Berlin has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Guadalupe County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Berlin's 6,163 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Guadalupe County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Berlin's 6,163 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Berlin you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,163 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.7 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 New Berlin-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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