Greenway, Arkansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, 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.
Even in Greenway, 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 Greenway lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Greenway — the short answer
Greenway, Arkansas: USDA zone 7b, about 257 days between hard freezes, across 166 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- 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 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~257
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 166 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 Greenway's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Greenway's 257-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Greenway
Each reading below is measured for Greenway itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGreenway runs about 257 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
MeasuredGreenway 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 Greenway is in
Greenway sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Greenway's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clay County.
What Grows in Greenway
Every plant below cleared Greenway's own zone 7b and its 257-day season. Each card opens that plant's Arkansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Greenway?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 23 — 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.
Documented around Greenway
Survey cells within 31 miles of Greenway checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 197 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Greenway
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Greenway. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GREENWAY STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- 19N08E04DBB1Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- 20N08E15BAA1Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- PINNACLE FRAMES & ACCENTSToxics Release Inventory · 2.9 mi
- 20N08E14BAB2Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- LA DARLING COMPANY - PIGGOTT PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 3.0 mi
- PINNACLE FRAMES & ACCENTS #2 - PIGGOTTToxics Release Inventory · 3.0 mi
- CLAY COUNTY FARMER'S COOP, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- PHILLIPS 66 COMPANY #023213Underground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- HORIZION MFG. COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- 20N08E18BBB1Nitrate · 3.3 mi
- HAYWOOD'S CONOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Greenway'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 Greenway.
Total Sites
76
within ~10 miles of Greenway
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Greenway
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Greenway
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Greenway, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 28 sites within ~10 miles of Greenway. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Greenway
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 Greenway average
Your land is one point inside Greenway
Everything above resolves to Greenway as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 166 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 Greenway Average
Greenway Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Greenway
- ●One soil character for all of Greenway
- ●Frost dates read at Greenway's scale: Mar 11 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Greenway's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Greenway
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Greenway, Arkansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Greenway averages can't show:
We read public map data around Greenway — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Greenway average
How we know this about Greenway
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 Greenway’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 Greenway
When does frost risk typically end in Greenway?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Greenway 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 Greenway?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Greenway 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 257 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Greenway?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Greenway sees about 257 frost-free days — roughly Mar 11 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 1 to Nov 9, about 222 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Greenway?
The federal record around Greenway shows 76 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (41), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Greenway?
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 Greenway's scale — its 7b band and its 257-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Greenway'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 Greenway’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Greenway's own scale — its own ~257-day season between 28°F freezes, the 166 acres it covers and 76 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Greenway's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Greenway's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 11 and Nov 23 and the ~257-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 76 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Greenway, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Greenway's boundary and the 166 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~257-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Greenway's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Greenway checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Greenway's 166 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clay County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clay County
- The growing challenges every Arkansas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Arkansas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Clay County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Greenway's 166 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Greenway you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 166 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Greenway-wide figureread your own land →
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