Enchanted Hills, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Enchanted Hills, 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 Enchanted Hills lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Enchanted Hills — the short answer
Enchanted Hills, Indiana: USDA zone 6a, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 707 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 707 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 Enchanted Hills's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Enchanted Hills's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Enchanted Hills
Each reading below is measured for Enchanted Hills itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEnchanted Hills runs about 201 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
MeasuredEnchanted Hills 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 Enchanted Hills is in
Enchanted Hills sits in the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Enchanted Hills's own centroid rather than borrowed from Kosciusko County.
What Grows in Enchanted Hills
Every plant below cleared Enchanted Hills's own zone 6a and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Enchanted Hills?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — 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 Enchanted Hills
Spotted lanternfly documented 18 miles from Enchanted Hills, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Enchanted Hills
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Enchanted Hills. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DONS EXCAVATING INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- JOHNSON BAY MARINA INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- JOHNSON BAY MARINA & SHORE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- DADA'S SUNKEN VESSELSuperfund · 1.1 mi
- GRIFFITH BROTHERS INCORPORATED DBA WAWASEE MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Verizon BusinessUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- HANKS C STORE WAWASEEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- WAWASEE FAMILY FISHING AREAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- MIKEL FARMS INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- WATERSON GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- MOCKS MARINE RENTALSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- Wawasee Middle SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Enchanted Hills'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 Enchanted Hills.
Total Sites
291
within ~10 miles of Enchanted Hills
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Enchanted Hills
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Enchanted Hills
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Enchanted Hills, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 50 sites within ~10 miles of Enchanted Hills. 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 Enchanted Hills
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 Enchanted Hills average
Your land is one point inside Enchanted Hills
Everything above resolves to Enchanted Hills as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 707 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 Enchanted Hills Average
Enchanted Hills Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Enchanted Hills
- ●One soil character for all of Enchanted Hills
- ●Frost dates read at Enchanted Hills's scale: Apr 14 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Enchanted Hills's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Enchanted Hills
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Enchanted Hills, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Enchanted Hills averages can't show:
We read public map data around Enchanted Hills — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Enchanted Hills average
How we know this about Enchanted Hills
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 Enchanted Hills’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 Enchanted Hills
When does frost risk typically end in Enchanted Hills?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Enchanted Hills typically lands around Apr 14, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Enchanted Hills?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Enchanted Hills typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Enchanted Hills?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Enchanted Hills sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 18, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Enchanted Hills?
The federal record around Enchanted Hills is a meaningful one — 291 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (147), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Enchanted Hills?
From about Oct 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 Nov 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Enchanted Hills's scale — its 6a band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Enchanted Hills'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 Enchanted Hills’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Enchanted Hills's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 707 acres it covers and 291 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Enchanted Hills's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Enchanted Hills's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Nov 1 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 291 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Enchanted Hills, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Enchanted Hills's boundary and the 707 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Enchanted Hills's own centroid, the Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Enchanted Hillslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Enchanted Hills's 707 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Kosciusko County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Kosciusko 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 Kosciusko County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Enchanted Hills's 707 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Enchanted Hills you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 707 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Enchanted Hills-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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