Weinert, 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.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Weinert, 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 Weinert lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Weinert — the short answer
Weinert, Texas: USDA zone 8a, about 255 days between hard freezes, across 309 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~255
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 309 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 Weinert's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Weinert's 255-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Weinert
Each reading below is measured for Weinert itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWeinert runs about 255 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
MeasuredWeinert 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 Weinert is in
Weinert sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Weinert's own centroid rather than borrowed from Haskell County.
What Grows in Weinert
Every plant below cleared Weinert's own zone 8a and its 255-day season. Each card opens that plant's Texas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Weinert?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 21 — 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 Weinert
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Weinert. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Brushy Creek-1Mining · 5.5 mi
- GUINNS TIN & PLUMBINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.1 mi
- P & W SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.1 mi
- ALLSUPS 104Underground Storage Tanks · 9.1 mi
- COLLINS FINA SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.1 mi
- RON LANEY OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.2 mi
- MOORE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTSBrownfields · 9.2 mi
- RUSSELL PENICKUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.3 mi
Measured from Weinert'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 Weinert.
Total Sites
8
within ~10 miles of Weinert
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 mining site (prospects, none worked)
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Weinert
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •Mine waste leaches heavy metals. Test for lead, arsenic and cadmium before growing food here.
Check your specific parcel in Weinert
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Weinert
Everything above resolves to Weinert as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 309 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 Weinert Average
Weinert Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Weinert
- ●One soil character for all of Weinert
- ●Frost dates read at Weinert's scale: Mar 11 to Nov 21
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Weinert's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Weinert
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Weinert, Texas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Weinert — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Weinert average
How we know this about Weinert
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 Weinert’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 Weinert
When does frost risk typically end in Weinert?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Weinert typically lands around Mar 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 Apr 1.
When is the first frost in Weinert?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Weinert typically arrives around Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 7, so the watching starts about Oct 22 — about 255 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Weinert?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Weinert sees about 255 frost-free days — roughly Mar 11 through Nov 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 1 to Nov 7, about 220 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Weinert?
The federal record around Weinert is light — 8 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (6), the nearest Mining record about 5.5 miles 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 Weinert?
From about Oct 22 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 21 (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 21. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Weinert's scale — its 8a band and its 255-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Weinert'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 Weinert’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Weinert's own scale — its own ~255-day season between 28°F freezes, the 309 acres it covers and 8 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Weinert's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Weinert's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 11 and Nov 21 and the ~255-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 8 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Weinert, the closest Mining record about 5.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Weinert's boundary and the 309 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~255-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Weinert's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Weinert's 309 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Haskell County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Haskell 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 Haskell County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Weinert's 309 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Weinert you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 309 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Mining record about 5.5 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 Weinert-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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