Taswell, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Taswell, 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 Taswell 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 Taswell — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Taswell — the short answer
Taswell, Indiana: USDA zone 6b, about 207 days between hard freezes, across 359 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~207
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 359 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 Taswell's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Taswell's 207-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Taswell
Each reading below is measured for Taswell itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTaswell runs about 207 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
MeasuredTaswell 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 Taswell is in
Taswell sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Taswell's own centroid rather than borrowed from Crawford County.
What Grows in Taswell
Every plant below cleared Taswell's own zone 6b and its 207-day season. Each card opens that plant's Indiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Taswell?
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 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — 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 Taswell
Survey cells within 31 miles of Taswell checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 92 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Taswell
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Taswell. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FELKERS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- 64 MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- PAPPYS CONVENIENT STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- Poor Boys Country StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- EAZY ELMOS TRADIN POSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- Eckerty Y General StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- Mulzer Crushed StoneUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- KING NO 2 ENGLISH, IND.Nitrate · 4.1 mi
- LAB NO 2944 ENGLISH, INDNitrate · 4.1 mi
- ENGLISH GAS MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- JP STEMPLY GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- ENGLISH SERVICE AREAUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Taswell'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 Taswell.
Total Sites
41
within ~10 miles of Taswell
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Taswell
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Taswell
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Taswell, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 32 sites within ~10 miles of Taswell. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Taswell
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 Taswell
Everything above resolves to Taswell as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 359 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 Taswell Average
Taswell Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Taswell
- ●One soil character for all of Taswell
- ●Frost dates read at Taswell's scale: Apr 7 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Taswell's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Taswell
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Taswell, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Taswell averages can't show:
We read public map data around Taswell — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Taswell average
How we know this about Taswell
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 Taswell’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 Taswell
When does frost risk typically end in Taswell?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Taswell typically lands around Apr 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Taswell?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Taswell typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 207 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Taswell?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Taswell sees about 207 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 17, about 172 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Taswell?
The federal record around Taswell is a meaningful one — 41 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (32), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Taswell?
From about Oct 1 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 31 (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 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Taswell's scale — its 6b band and its 207-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Taswell'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 Taswell’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Taswell's own scale — its own ~207-day season between 28°F freezes, the 359 acres it covers and 41 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Taswell's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Taswell's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Oct 31 and the ~207-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 41 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Taswell, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Taswell's boundary and the 359 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~207-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Taswell's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Taswell 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 Taswell's 359 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Crawford County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Crawford 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 Crawford County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Taswell's 359 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Taswell you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 359 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Taswell-wide figureread your own land →