Landess, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, 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 Landess, 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 Landess 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 Landess — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Landess — the short answer
Landess, Indiana: USDA zone 6a, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 904 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 904 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 Landess's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Landess's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Landess
Each reading below is measured for Landess itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLandess runs about 208 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
MeasuredLandess 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 Landess is in
Landess sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Landess's own centroid rather than borrowed from Grant County.
What Grows in Landess
Every plant below cleared Landess's own zone 6a and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Landess?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 8 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Landess
Spotted lanternfly documented 20 miles from Landess, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Landess
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Landess. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Steve & Deedee KelchUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- IMPACT COOPERATIVE INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- WEAVER POPCORN COMPANY INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- UNITED TELEPHONE COMPANY OF INDIANAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- WEAVER POPCORN COMPANY INCORPORATEDBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- MORRIS PETROLEUM COMPANY INCORPORATEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- D & S LUBRITORYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- Van Buren Water WorksUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- Loves Travel Stop 323Underground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL DISTRIBUTION CENTERBrownfields · 4.0 mi
- Marion Food & SnacksUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- Docs Shop 17Underground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Landess'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 Landess.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Landess
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Landess
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Landess, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Landess — Toxics Release Inventory (29 sites) and PFAS (3 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Landess
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 Landess average
Your land is one point inside Landess
Everything above resolves to Landess as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 904 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 Landess Average
Landess Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Landess
- ●One soil character for all of Landess
- ●Frost dates read at Landess's scale: Apr 8 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Landess's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Landess
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Landess, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Landess averages can't show:
We read public map data around Landess — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Landess average
How we know this about Landess
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 Landess’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 Landess
When does frost risk typically end in Landess?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Landess typically lands around Apr 8, 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 29.
When is the first frost in Landess?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Landess typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Landess?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Landess sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 8 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 29 to Oct 19, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Landess?
The federal record around Landess is a meaningful one — 345 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (221), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Landess?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Landess's scale — its 6a band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Landess'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 Landess’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Landess's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 904 acres it covers and 345 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Landess's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Landess's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 8 and Nov 2 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 345 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Landess, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Landess's boundary and the 904 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Landess's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Landesslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Landess's 904 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Grant County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Grant 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 Grant County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Landess's 904 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Landess you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 904 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Landess-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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