Turkey, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Turkey, 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 Turkey lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Turkey — the short answer
Turkey, Texas: USDA zone 7b, about 236 days between hard freezes, across 524 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~236
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 524 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 Turkey's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Turkey's 236-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Turkey
Each reading below is measured for Turkey itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTurkey runs about 236 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
MeasuredTurkey 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 Turkey is in
Turkey sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Turkey's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hall County.
What Grows in Turkey
Every plant below cleared Turkey's own zone 7b and its 236-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Turkey?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 14 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Turkey
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Turkey. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- R & T REPAIRSUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- ALLSUPS 237Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- QUITAQUE PRODUCERS CO-OP 1Underground Storage Tanks · 9.4 mi
- JACKS AUTOMOTIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.4 mi
- ALLSUPS 93Underground Storage Tanks · 9.5 mi
Measured from Turkey'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 Turkey.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Turkey
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
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Your land is one point inside Turkey
Everything above resolves to Turkey as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 524 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 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 Turkey Average
Turkey Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Turkey
- ●One soil character for all of Turkey
- ●Frost dates read at Turkey's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Turkey's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Turkey
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Turkey, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Turkey averages can't show:
We read public map data around Turkey — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Turkey average
How we know this about Turkey
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 Turkey’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 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 Turkey
When does frost risk typically end in Turkey?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Turkey typically lands around Mar 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 Apr 13.
When is the first frost in Turkey?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Turkey typically arrives around Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 31, so the watching starts about Oct 15 — about 236 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Turkey?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Turkey sees about 236 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Oct 31, about 201 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Turkey?
The federal record around Turkey is light — 5 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (5), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Turkey?
From about Oct 15 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 14 (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 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Turkey's scale — its 7b band and its 236-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Turkey'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 Turkey’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Turkey's own scale — its own ~236-day season between 28°F freezes, the 524 acres it covers and 5 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Turkey's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Turkey's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 14 and the ~236-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 5 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Turkey, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Turkey's boundary and the 524 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~236-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Turkey's own centroid, the Southwestern TablelandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Turkey's 524 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hall County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hall 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 Hall County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Turkey's 524 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Turkey you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 524 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Turkey-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across TexasTurkey sits outside our named growing regions, so Texas as a whole is its closest context here.