Sherwood Shores, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Sherwood Shores, 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 Sherwood Shores lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Sherwood Shores — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Sherwood Shores — the short answer
Sherwood Shores, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 262 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~262
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Sherwood Shores's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sherwood Shores's 262-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sherwood Shores
Each reading below is measured for Sherwood Shores itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSherwood Shores runs about 262 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
MeasuredSherwood Shores 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 Sherwood Shores is in
Sherwood Shores sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Sherwood Shores's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Grayson County is mostly Texas Blackland Prairies. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Sherwood Shores
Every plant below cleared Sherwood Shores's own zone 8a and its 262-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sherwood Shores?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 23 — 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 Sherwood Shores
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sherwood Shores. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 7 STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- CEDAR MILLS MARINA & RESORTBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- CEDAR MILLS MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- MITCHELLS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- CEDAR BAYOU MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- Buncombe Creek ResortUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- MILL CREEK RESORT & MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- Former Callis CornerUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- Willis Food MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- C & S GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- Willis General StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- Yankee DeeUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sherwood Shores'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 Sherwood Shores.
Total Sites
41
within ~10 miles of Sherwood Shores
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 brownfield sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sherwood Shores
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sherwood Shores
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sherwood Shores, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Sherwood Shores — PFAS (4 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (34 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.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Sherwood Shores
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 Sherwood Shores average
Your land is one point inside Sherwood Shores
Everything above resolves to Sherwood Shores as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Sherwood Shores Average
Sherwood Shores Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Sherwood Shores
- ●One soil character for all of Sherwood Shores
- ●Frost dates read at Sherwood Shores's scale: Mar 6 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sherwood Shores's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sherwood Shores
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sherwood Shores, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sherwood Shores averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sherwood Shores — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sherwood Shores average
How we know this about Sherwood Shores
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 Sherwood Shores’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 Sherwood Shores
When does frost risk typically end in Sherwood Shores?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sherwood Shores typically lands around Mar 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 Mar 27.
When is the first frost in Sherwood Shores?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sherwood Shores typically arrives around Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 9, so the watching starts about Oct 24 — about 262 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sherwood Shores?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sherwood Shores sees about 262 frost-free days — roughly Mar 6 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 27 to Nov 9, about 227 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sherwood Shores?
The federal record around Sherwood Shores is a meaningful one — 41 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (34), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 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 Sherwood Shores?
From about Oct 24 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sherwood Shores's scale — its 8a band and its 262-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sherwood Shores'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 Sherwood Shores’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Sherwood Shores's own scale — its own ~262-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,823 acres it covers and 41 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sherwood Shores's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sherwood Shores's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 6 and Nov 23 and the ~262-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 41 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sherwood Shores, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sherwood Shores's boundary and the 1,823 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~262-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Sherwood Shores sits in the Cross Timbers — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Sherwood Shores's 1,823 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Grayson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Grayson 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 Grayson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sherwood Shores's 1,823 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sherwood Shores you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,823 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 Sherwood Shores-wide figureread your own land →
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