Grammer, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Grammer, 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 Grammer lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Grammer — the short answer
Grammer, Indiana: USDA zone 6b, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 160 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 160 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 6b is Grammer's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Grammer's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Grammer
Each reading below is measured for Grammer itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGrammer runs about 217 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
MeasuredGrammer sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Grammer is in
Grammer sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Grammer's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bartholomew County.
What Grows in Grammer
Every plant below cleared Grammer's own zone 6b and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Grammer?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Grammer
Survey cells within 31 miles of Grammer checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 48 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Grammer
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Grammer. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ACA FOOD MART INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- CRITZER WELL DRILLINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- GRAMMER IND INCBrownfields · 600 ft
- ROMINE WAYNE PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- GARRIS AUTO BODYBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- Milestone Contractors Limited PartnershipUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- JOHNSON'S BODY SHOPBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- Heritage Aggregates LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- HERITAGE AGGREGATES LLC COLUMBUS QUARRYBrownfields · 3.7 mi
- YOUNG PAINTING COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- MILESTONE CONTRACTORS LP COLUMBUS YARDBrownfields · 3.7 mi
- Bartholomew County LandfillUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Grammer'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 Grammer.
Total Sites
158
within ~10 miles of Grammer
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Grammer
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Grammer
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Grammer, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 12 sites within ~10 miles of Grammer. 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 Grammer
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 Grammer
Everything above resolves to Grammer as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 160 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 Grammer Average
Grammer Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Grammer
- ●One soil character for all of Grammer
- ●Frost dates read at Grammer's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Grammer's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Grammer
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Grammer, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Grammer averages can't show:
We read public map data around Grammer — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Grammer average
How we know this about Grammer
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 Grammer’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 Grammer
When does frost risk typically end in Grammer?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Grammer typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Grammer?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Grammer typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Grammer?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Grammer sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 22, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Grammer?
The federal record around Grammer is a meaningful one — 158 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (83), 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 Grammer?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Grammer's scale — its 6b band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Grammer'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 Grammer’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Grammer's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 160 acres it covers and 158 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Grammer's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Grammer's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 5 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 158 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Grammer, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Grammer's boundary and the 160 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Grammer's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Grammer 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 Grammer's 160 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bartholomew County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bartholomew 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 Bartholomew County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Grammer's 160 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Grammer you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 160 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 Grammer-wide figureread your own land →