Rosanky, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Rosanky, 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 Rosanky lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Rosanky — the short answer
Rosanky, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 295 days between hard freezes, across 13K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 11
- Bastrop County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 3
- Bastrop County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~295
- Bastrop County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 13K 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 Bastrop County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Rosanky's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Rosanky's 295-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Rosanky
Each reading below is measured for Rosanky itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsRosanky runs about 295 days between hard freezes (read from Bastrop County, the closest normal to Rosanky) — 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
MeasuredRosanky 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 Rosanky is in
Rosanky sits in the East Central Texas Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Rosanky's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bastrop County.
What Grows in Rosanky
Every plant below cleared Rosanky's own zone 9a and its 295-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Rosanky?
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 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 3 — 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 Rosanky
Survey cells within 31 miles of Rosanky checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 592 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Rosanky
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Rosanky. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- AT-67-06-605Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- WAGON WHEEL GAS N GOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- JERRYSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- AT-67-06-502Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- AT-67-06-201Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- AT-67-06-609Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- AT-67-06-205Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- AT-67-06-608Nitrate · 2.4 mi
- AT-67-06-104Nitrate · 3.2 mi
- AT-67-06-703Nitrate · 3.6 mi
- AT-67-07-102Nitrate · 4.4 mi
- AT-67-06-702Nitrate · 5.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Rosanky'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 Rosanky.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Rosanky
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Rosanky
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Rosanky, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 116 sites within ~10 miles of Rosanky. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Rosanky
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 Rosanky average
Your land is one point inside Rosanky
Everything above resolves to Rosanky as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 13K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Bastrop County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’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 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 Rosanky Average
Rosanky Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Rosanky
- ●One soil character for all of Rosanky
- ●Frost dates read at Rosanky's scale: Feb 11 to Dec 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Rosanky's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Rosanky
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Rosanky, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Rosanky averages can't show:
We read public map data around Rosanky — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rosanky average
How we know this about Rosanky
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 Bastrop 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 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 Rosanky
When does frost risk typically end in Rosanky?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Rosanky typically lands around Feb 11, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Rosanky?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Rosanky typically arrives around Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 19, so the watching starts about Nov 3 — about 295 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Rosanky?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Rosanky sees about 295 frost-free days — roughly Feb 11 through Dec 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 4 to Nov 19, about 260 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Rosanky?
The federal record around Rosanky shows 138 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (116), the nearest Nitrate record about 1.3 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 Rosanky?
From about Nov 3 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Rosanky's scale — its 9a band and its 295-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Rosanky'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 Rosanky’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Rosanky's own scale — the 13,065 acres it covers and 138 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Rosanky's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 138 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Rosanky, the closest Nitrate record about 1.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Rosanky's boundary and the 13,065 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~295-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Rosanky's own centroid, the East Central Texas PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Rosanky checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Rosanky has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Bastrop County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Rosanky's 13,065 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bastrop County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bastrop 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 Bastrop County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Rosanky's 13,065 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Rosanky you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 13,065 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 1.3 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 Rosanky-wide figureread your own land →
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