Uhland, Texas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Uhland, 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 Uhland 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 Uhland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Uhland — the short answer
Uhland, Texas: USDA zone 9a, about 289 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 16
- Hays County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 2
- Hays County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~289
- Hays County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 2K 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 Hays County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Uhland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Uhland's 289-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Uhland
Each reading below is measured for Uhland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsUhland runs about 289 days between hard freezes (read from Hays County, the closest normal to Uhland) — 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
MeasuredUhland 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 Uhland is in
Uhland sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Uhland's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Hays County is mostly Edwards Plateau. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Uhland
Every plant below cleared Uhland's own zone 9a and its 289-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Uhland?
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 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
Documented around Uhland
Survey cells within 31 miles of Uhland checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 620 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Uhland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Uhland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- POCO LOCO SUPERMERCARDOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- POCO LOCO SUPERMERCADO 3Underground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- PLUM CREEKPFAS · 2.8 mi
- CITY OF KYLEPFAS · 2.8 mi
- STATEWIDE ENVIRONMENTAL LLCBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- 7-ELEVEN STORE 40587Underground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- EASY LANE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- PARK PLACE FOODSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- BU-67-02-801Nitrate · 4.2 mi
- F G SPILLMANNUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- SPEED IN FOOD STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- LR-58-58-7 (E-72 Hays)Nitrate · 4.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Uhland'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 Uhland.
Total Sites
332
within ~10 miles of Uhland
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
16 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Uhland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Uhland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Uhland, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Uhland — PFAS (7 sites) and Nitrate (150 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Uhland
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 Uhland average
Your land is one point inside Uhland
Everything above resolves to Uhland as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Hays County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’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 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 Uhland Average
Uhland Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Uhland
- ●One soil character for all of Uhland
- ●Frost dates read at Uhland's scale: Feb 16 to Dec 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Uhland's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Uhland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Uhland, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Uhland averages can't show:
We read public map data around Uhland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Uhland average
How we know this about Uhland
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 Hays 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 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 Uhland
When does frost risk typically end in Uhland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Uhland typically lands around Feb 16, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Uhland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Uhland typically arrives around Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 18, so the watching starts about Nov 2 — about 289 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Uhland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Uhland sees about 289 frost-free days — roughly Feb 16 through Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 9 to Nov 18, about 254 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Uhland?
The federal record around Uhland is a meaningful one — 332 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (150), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Uhland?
From about Nov 2 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Uhland's scale — its 9a band and its 289-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Uhland'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 Uhland’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Uhland's own scale — the 2,443 acres it covers and 332 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Uhland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 332 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Uhland, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Uhland's boundary and the 2,443 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~289-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Uhland sits in the Texas Blackland Prairies — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Uhland checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Uhland has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Hays County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Uhland's 2,443 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hays County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hays 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 Hays County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Uhland's 2,443 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Uhland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,443 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Uhland-wide figureread your own land →
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