New Goshen, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in New Goshen, 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 New Goshen lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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New Goshen — the short answer
New Goshen, Indiana: USDA zone 6a, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 304 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- 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 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 304 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 New Goshen's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Goshen's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Goshen
Each reading below is measured for New Goshen itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Goshen 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
MeasuredNew Goshen 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 New Goshen is in
New Goshen sits in the Central Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Goshen's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Vigo County is mostly Interior River Valleys and Hills. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in New Goshen
Every plant below cleared New Goshen'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 New Goshen?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 1 — 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 New Goshen
Survey cells within 31 miles of New Goshen checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 98 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near New Goshen
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Goshen. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- IN-SP CLANDESTINE SITE - RESIDENCEBrownfields · 300 ft
- LILLY NEW GOSHEN TERMINALUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- SUSAN KOS & ROBERT STROLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- FAYETTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- FAYETTE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBrownfields · 1200 ft
- T13N R9W S19 NENENW NEW GOSHEN, INNitrate · 1.3 mi
- T13N R9W S8 SENENW NR NEW GOSHEN, INNitrate · 1.4 mi
- T13N R10W S23 SWNESE NEW GOSHEN, INNitrate · 2.2 mi
- T13N R9W S4 NWSWNW NEW GOSHEN, INNitrate · 2.4 mi
- T13N R9W S5 NENENE NR ROSEDALE, INNitrate · 2.5 mi
- T13N R10W S10 NWSWSE NR TERREHAUTE,INNitrate · 2.5 mi
- SCOTT WILLIAMUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Goshen'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 New Goshen.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Goshen
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Goshen
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Goshen, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of New Goshen — Superfund (17 sites) and PFAS (5 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in New Goshen
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 New Goshen
Everything above resolves to New Goshen as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 304 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 New Goshen Average
New Goshen Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across New Goshen
- ●One soil character for all of New Goshen
- ●Frost dates read at New Goshen's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Goshen's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Goshen
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Goshen, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Goshen averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Goshen — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Goshen average
How we know this about New Goshen
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 New Goshen’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 New Goshen
When does frost risk typically end in New Goshen?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Goshen 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 New Goshen?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Goshen 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 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Goshen?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Goshen sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 18, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Goshen?
The federal record around New Goshen is a meaningful one — 594 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (309), the nearest Brownfields 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 New Goshen?
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 New Goshen's scale — its 6a band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Goshen'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 New Goshen’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at New Goshen's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 304 acres it covers and 594 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Goshen's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Goshen's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 1 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 594 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Goshen, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Goshen's boundary and the 304 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- New Goshen sits in the Central Corn Belt Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around New Goshen 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 New Goshen's 304 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Vigo County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Vigo 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 Vigo County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Goshen's 304 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Goshen you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 304 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 New Goshen-wide figureread your own land →
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