Vineland, Colorado, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Vineland, 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 Vineland 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 Vineland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Vineland — the short answer
Vineland, Colorado: USDA zone 6a, about 183 days between hard freezes, across 362 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~183
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 362 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 6a is Vineland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Vineland's 183-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Vineland
Each reading below is measured for Vineland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredVineland runs about 183 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredVineland sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Vineland is in
Vineland sits in the Southwestern Tablelands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Vineland's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pueblo County.
What Grows in Vineland
Every plant below cleared Vineland's own zone 6a and its 183-day season. Each card opens that plant's Colorado profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Vineland?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 16 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Vineland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Vineland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Barker ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- American Fertilizer CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Vineland ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Pueblo County School Dist #70 Vineland Garage SiteUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- SC02106303DCCNitrate · 1.6 mi
- PURPLEBEE'S COLORADO (PBS-CO)Brownfields · 2.1 mi
- Loaf N Jug #35Underground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- TARGET DISTRIBUTION CENTER T0554Brownfields · 2.4 mi
- Pueblo DistributionUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- Pueblo County Public WorksUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- MARS PETCARE US, INC - PET FOOD MFGToxics Release Inventory · 2.5 mi
- Pueblo Airport Industrial ParkUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Vineland'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 Vineland.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Vineland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Vineland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Vineland, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 31 sites within ~10 miles of Vineland. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Vineland
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 Vineland average
Your land is one point inside Vineland
Everything above resolves to Vineland as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 362 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 Vineland Average
Vineland Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Vineland
- ●One soil character for all of Vineland
- ●Frost dates read at Vineland's scale: Apr 16 to Oct 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Vineland's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Vineland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Vineland, Colorado — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Vineland averages can't show:
We read public map data around Vineland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Vineland average
How we know this about Vineland
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 Vineland’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 Vineland
When does frost risk typically end in Vineland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Vineland typically lands around Apr 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 May 7.
When is the first frost in Vineland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Vineland typically arrives around Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 2, so the watching starts about Sep 16 — about 183 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Vineland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Vineland sees about 183 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 2, about 148 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Vineland?
The federal record around Vineland is a meaningful one — 487 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (287), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Vineland?
From about Sep 16 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 Oct 16 (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 Oct 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Vineland's scale — its 6a band and its 183-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Vineland'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 Vineland’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Vineland's own scale — its own ~183-day season between 28°F freezes, the 362 acres it covers and 487 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Vineland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Vineland's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Oct 16 and the ~183-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 487 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Vineland, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Vineland's boundary and the 362 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~183-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Vineland's own centroid, the Southwestern TablelandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Vineland's 362 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pueblo County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pueblo County
- The growing challenges every Colorado grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Colorado
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Pueblo County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Vineland's 362 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Vineland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 362 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 Vineland-wide figureread your own land →