What Grows in Seis Lagos, Texas

USDA Zones 8b · 486 acres

Seis Lagos, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.

Well-matched crops include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.

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Seis Lagos — the short answer

Seis Lagos, Texas: USDA zone 8b, about 276 days between hard freezes, across 486 acres of town.

USDA zone
8b
USDA PHZM 2023
Last hard freeze (28°F)
Feb 23
Collin County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
First hard freeze (28°F)
Nov 26
Collin County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
Days between freezes
~276
Collin County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
Town area
486 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 Collin County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.

Hardiness Zone Range

8b8b
3a (Cold)13b (Hot)

Zone 8b is Seis Lagos's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Seis Lagos's 276-day season, see what your own ground reads.

Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.

What this means for growing in Seis Lagos

Each reading below is measured for Seis Lagos itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.

Season length

From county records

Seis Lagos runs about 276 days between hard freezes (read from Collin County, the closest normal to Seis Lagos) — 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

Measured

Seis Lagos 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 Seis Lagos is in

Seis Lagos sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Seis Lagos's own centroid rather than borrowed from Collin County.

What that means for soil

What Grows in Seis Lagos

Every plant below cleared Seis Lagos's own zone 8b and its 276-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.

cabbage, photograph
Growing cabbage in TexasZones 2–11Seis Lagos's 8b — 6 zones of cold margin.
fig, photograph
Texas fig guideZones 6–10Seis Lagos's 8b — 2 zones of cold margin.
California poppy, photograph
California poppy in TexasZones 6–10Seis Lagos's 8b — 2 zones of cold margin.
collard greens, photograph
Collard greens: Texas growing notesZones 2–11Seis Lagos's 8b — 6 zones of cold margin.
loquat, photograph
Growing loquat in TexasZones 7–10Seis Lagos's 8b — 1 zone of cold margin.
rosemary, photograph
Texas rosemary guideZones 8–10Seis Lagos's 8b is its exact cold limit.
kale, photograph
Kale in TexasZones 2–11Seis Lagos's 8b — 6 zones of cold margin.
pomegranate, photograph
Pomegranate: Texas growing notesZones 7–10Seis Lagos's 8b — 1 zone of cold margin.
lavender, photograph
Growing lavender in TexasZones 5–8Seis Lagos's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.
lentil, photograph
Texas lentil guideZones 2–11Seis Lagos's 276 days clear the ~70 it needs.
prickly pear, photograph
Prickly pear in TexasZones 5–10Seis Lagos's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.
okra, photograph
Okra: Texas growing notesZones 2–12Seis Lagos's 276 days clear the ~50 it needs.
almond, photograph
Growing almond in TexasZones 5–9Seis Lagos's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.
potato, photograph
Texas potato guideZones 2–11Seis Lagos's 8b — 6 zones of cold margin.
pumpkin, photograph
Pumpkin in TexasZones 3–11Seis Lagos's 276 days clear the ~40 it needs.
iris, photograph
Iris: Texas growing notesZones 3–10Seis Lagos's 8b — 5 zones of cold margin.
sunflower, photograph
Growing sunflower in TexasZones 2–11Seis Lagos's 276 days clear the ~70 it needs.
Apache plume, photograph
Texas apache plume guideZones 5–11Seis Lagos's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.
hops, photograph
Hops in TexasZones 3–8Seis Lagos's 8b — 5 zones of cold margin.
hosta, photograph
Hosta: Texas growing notesZones 3–8Seis Lagos's 8b — 5 zones of cold margin.
French marigold, photograph
Growing french marigold in TexasSeis Lagos's 276 days clear the ~50 it needs.
holly, photograph
Texas holly guideZones 5–11Seis Lagos's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.
Carolina jessamine, photograph
Carolina jessamine in TexasZones 7–10Seis Lagos's 8b — 1 zone of cold margin.
tulip, photograph
Tulip: Texas growing notesZones 6–8Seis Lagos's 8b — 2 zones of cold margin.
redbud, photograph
Growing redbud in TexasZones 5–11Seis Lagos's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.
pearl millet, photograph
Texas pearl millet guideZones 5–11Seis Lagos's 276 days clear the ~60 it needs.
ajuga, photograph
Ajuga in TexasZones 5–11Seis Lagos's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.
Douglas fir, photograph
Douglas fir: Texas growing notesZones 4–10Seis Lagos's 8b — 4 zones of cold margin.
phacelia, photograph
Growing phacelia in TexasZones 2–11Seis Lagos's 276 days clear the ~100 it needs.
liriope, photograph
Texas liriope guideZones 5–11Seis Lagos's 8b — 3 zones of cold margin.

Is it too late to plant in Seis Lagos?

Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 23 (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. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.

What's on the federal record near Seis Lagos

Closest first, within ~10 miles of Seis Lagos. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.

  1. LUCAS FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
  2. CVS PHARMACY #10887Brownfields · 1.2 mi
  3. LAKEWAY FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
  4. LOVEJOY ISDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
  5. ENGINEERS & ERECTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
  6. COLLIN PARK MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
  7. ALLEN GENERAL CONTRACTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
  8. CITY OF LUCASPFAS · 2.7 mi
  9. CITY OF PARKERPFAS · 2.7 mi
  10. WALMART NEIGHBORHOOD MARKET 6078Underground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
  11. WALMART NEIGHBORHOOD MARKET #6078Brownfields · 3.1 mi
  12. CORPORATE DISPOSAL & WASTEBrownfields · 3.1 mi

6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map

Measured from Seis Lagos'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 Seis Lagos.

Total Sites

700

within ~10 miles of Seis Lagos

Risk Level

High

Highest-severity

8 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)

Severity Distribution

within ~10 miles of Seis Lagos

High16Moderate255Low429

Highest-Severity Sites

Bear Creek Sud
PFAS Sampling · PFAS Detected
City of Allen
PFAS Sampling · PFAS Detected
City of Lucas
PFAS Sampling · PFAS Detected
City of Murphy
PFAS Sampling · PFAS Detected
City of Parker
PFAS Sampling · PFAS Detected

A note from Gnorman

What an experienced grower watches for around here

In and around Seis Lagos, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Seis Lagos — PFAS (16 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (51 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.

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.

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Your land is one point inside Seis Lagos

Everything above resolves to Seis Lagos as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 486 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Collin 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 Seis Lagos Average

Seis Lagos Average

  • USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Seis Lagos
  • One soil character for all of Seis Lagos
  • Frost dates read at Seis Lagos's scale: Feb 23 to Nov 26

YOUR Parcel

  • Your exact zone, not Seis Lagos's 8b
  • Your SSURGO soil type & pH
  • Your sun exposure, cast in 3D

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Three things about your lot that Seis Lagos averages can't show:

Your soil pHYour frost-free days — Seis Lagos averages 276Your sun & shade

We read public map data around Seis Lagos — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.

25+ data sources read at your address, not the Seis Lagos average

How we know this about Seis Lagos

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 Collin 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 Seis Lagos

When does frost risk typically end in Seis Lagos?

The last hard freeze (28°F) in Seis Lagos typically lands around Feb 23, 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 16.

When is the first frost in Seis Lagos?

The first hard freeze (28°F) in Seis Lagos 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 276 days after the spring freeze cleared.

How long is the growing season in Seis Lagos?

Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Seis Lagos sees about 276 frost-free days — roughly Feb 23 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 16 to Nov 12, about 241 days.

Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Seis Lagos?

The federal record around Seis Lagos runs heavier than most — 700 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (470), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.

How do I protect my plants from frost in Seis Lagos?

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 Seis Lagos's scale — its 8b band and its 276-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Seis Lagos'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 Seis Lagos’s own scale

5 of the readings below were taken at Seis Lagos's own scale — the 486 acres it covers and 700 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.

Measured here

  • Seis Lagos's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
  • 700 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Seis Lagos, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
  • Seis Lagos's boundary and the 486 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
  • Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~276-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
  • The ecoregion at Seis Lagos's own centroid, the Texas Blackland PrairiesUS EPA Level III Ecoregions

Inherited from a wider read

  • The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Seis Lagos has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Collin County
  • Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Seis Lagos's 486 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Collin County
  • Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Collin 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 Collin County

What this page can’t tell you

  • The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Seis Lagos's 486 acreswhy one lot differs from the next
  • Which side of Seis Lagos you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 486 acresreading your own microclimate
  • How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 Seis Lagos-wide figureread your own land
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