New Deal, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Expect cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in New Deal, 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 Deal 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 Deal — the short answer
New Deal, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 232 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~232
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 7b is New Deal's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Deal's 232-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Deal
Each reading below is measured for New Deal itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Deal runs about 232 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
MeasuredNew Deal sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Deal is in
New Deal sits in the High Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at New Deal's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lubbock County.
What Grows in New Deal
Every plant below cleared New Deal's own zone 7b and its 232-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Deal?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 12 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near New Deal
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Deal. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NORTHRUP KINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- MARKHAMS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- YESWAY 1120Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- AMAZIN GRAZINUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- TYCO FIRE PRODUCTS LUBBOCKBrownfields · 3.5 mi
- TYCO FIRE PRODUCTS LUBBOCKToxics Release Inventory · 3.5 mi
- FEDEX FREIGHT INC- LBBBrownfields · 3.5 mi
- DELTA WATER TECHNOLOGIESBrownfields · 3.5 mi
- UPS LUBBOCK GATEWAYBrownfields · 3.9 mi
- WALMART SUPERCENTER 6898Brownfields · 4.0 mi
- TEXAS AIR CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- I-27 RECYCLING CENTERSuperfund · 4.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Deal'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 Deal.
Total Sites
463
within ~10 miles of New Deal
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Deal
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Deal
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Deal, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 383 sites within ~10 miles of New Deal. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in New Deal
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 Deal average
Your land is one point inside New Deal
Everything above resolves to New Deal as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 New Deal Average
New Deal Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across New Deal
- ●One soil character for all of New Deal
- ●Frost dates read at New Deal's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Deal's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Deal
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Deal, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around New Deal — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Deal average
How we know this about New Deal
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 New Deal’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 New Deal
When does frost risk typically end in New Deal?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Deal typically lands around Mar 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 Apr 15.
When is the first frost in New Deal?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Deal typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 232 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Deal?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Deal sees about 232 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Oct 29, about 197 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Deal?
The federal record around New Deal is a meaningful one — 463 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (383), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 New Deal?
From about Oct 13 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Deal's scale — its 7b band and its 232-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Deal'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 Deal’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at New Deal's own scale — its own ~232-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,492 acres it covers and 463 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Deal's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Deal's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 12 and the ~232-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 463 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Deal, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Deal's boundary and the 1,492 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~232-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Deal's own centroid, the High PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Deal's 1,492 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lubbock County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lubbock 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 Lubbock County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Deal's 1,492 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Deal you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,492 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 New Deal-wide figureread your own land →