Bargersville, Indiana, 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.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bargersville, 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 Bargersville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bargersville — the short answer
Bargersville, Indiana: USDA zone 6a, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 12K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 12K 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 Bargersville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bargersville's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bargersville
Each reading below is measured for Bargersville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBargersville runs about 213 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
MeasuredBargersville 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 Bargersville is in
Bargersville sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bargersville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Johnson County.
What Grows in Bargersville
Every plant below cleared Bargersville's own zone 6a and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bargersville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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 Bargersville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Bargersville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 82 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bargersville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bargersville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Mauti Corner StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- CENTER GROVE TRANSPORTATION & MAINTANCE FACILITYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- CABINETS BY NICHOLS, INC.Brownfields · 2.2 mi
- JAMES T KELLIEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- Bargersville Former Utility BuildingUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- GRADY'S BODY SHOPBrownfields · 2.4 mi
- BARGERSVILLE POLICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- ShellUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- CVS PHARMACY 5408Brownfields · 2.4 mi
- CENTER GROVE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS BUS GARAGEBrownfields · 2.4 mi
- CENTER GROVE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- BRAUGHTON GRNWD, IND.Nitrate · 2.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bargersville'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 Bargersville.
Total Sites
623
within ~10 miles of Bargersville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bargersville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bargersville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bargersville, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 7 sites within ~10 miles of Bargersville. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Bargersville
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 Bargersville average
Your land is one point inside Bargersville
Everything above resolves to Bargersville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 12K 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 Bargersville Average
Bargersville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Bargersville
- ●One soil character for all of Bargersville
- ●Frost dates read at Bargersville's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bargersville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bargersville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bargersville, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bargersville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bargersville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bargersville average
How we know this about Bargersville
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 Bargersville’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 Bargersville
When does frost risk typically end in Bargersville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bargersville typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Bargersville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bargersville typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bargersville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bargersville sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 20, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bargersville?
The federal record around Bargersville is a meaningful one — 623 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (282), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.4 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 Bargersville?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bargersville's scale — its 6a band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bargersville'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 Bargersville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bargersville's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 11,974 acres it covers and 623 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bargersville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bargersville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 3 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 623 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bargersville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bargersville's boundary and the 11,974 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bargersville's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Bargersville 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 Bargersville's 11,974 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Johnson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Johnson County
- The growing challenges every Indiana grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Indiana
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Johnson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bargersville's 11,974 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bargersville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 11,974 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.4 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 Bargersville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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