Roselawn, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
The conditions favor cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Roselawn, 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 Roselawn 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 Roselawn — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Roselawn — the short answer
Roselawn, Indiana: USDA zone 5b, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 5b is Roselawn's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Roselawn's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Roselawn
Each reading below is measured for Roselawn itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRoselawn 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
MeasuredRoselawn sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Roselawn is in
Roselawn sits in the Central Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Roselawn's own centroid rather than borrowed from Newton County.
What Grows in Roselawn
Every plant below cleared Roselawn's own zone 5b and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Roselawn?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Roselawn
Survey cells within 31 miles of Roselawn checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 34 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Roselawn
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Roselawn. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Boezeman MarathonUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- CVS PHARMACY 6914Brownfields · 1.1 mi
- HANLEY TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- 32N8W-36.6b2Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- 32N8W-36.6bNitrate · 1.2 mi
- Family Express 034Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- IN DOT Roselawn UnitUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Ceres Solutions 170Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- HOLIDAY MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Loves Truck StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- TA 241Underground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Roselawn'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 Roselawn.
Total Sites
166
within ~10 miles of Roselawn
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Roselawn
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Roselawn
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Roselawn, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Roselawn — PFAS (3 sites) and Nitrate (94 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Roselawn
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 Roselawn average
Your land is one point inside Roselawn
Everything above resolves to Roselawn as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Roselawn Average
Roselawn Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Roselawn
- ●One soil character for all of Roselawn
- ●Frost dates read at Roselawn's scale: Apr 11 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Roselawn's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Roselawn
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Roselawn, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Roselawn averages can't show:
We read public map data around Roselawn — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Roselawn average
How we know this about Roselawn
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 Roselawn’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 Roselawn
When does frost risk typically end in Roselawn?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Roselawn typically lands around Apr 11, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Roselawn?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Roselawn typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Roselawn?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Roselawn sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 15, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Roselawn?
The federal record around Roselawn shows 166 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (94), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Roselawn?
From about Sep 29 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 Oct 29 (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 Oct 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Roselawn's scale — its 5b band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Roselawn'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 Roselawn’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Roselawn's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,247 acres it covers and 166 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Roselawn's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Roselawn's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Oct 29 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 166 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Roselawn, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Roselawn's boundary and the 4,247 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Roselawn's own centroid, the Central Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Roselawn 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 Roselawn's 4,247 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Newton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Newton 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 Newton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Roselawn's 4,247 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Roselawn you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,247 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 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 Roselawn-wide figureread your own land →
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