Taylorsville, Indiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Taylorsville, 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 Taylorsville 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 Taylorsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Taylorsville — the short answer
Taylorsville, Indiana: USDA zone 6b, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 681 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
- 681 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 Taylorsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Taylorsville's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Taylorsville
Each reading below is measured for Taylorsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTaylorsville 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
MeasuredTaylorsville 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 Taylorsville is in
Taylorsville sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Taylorsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bartholomew County.
What Grows in Taylorsville
Every plant below cleared Taylorsville'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 Taylorsville?
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 5 — 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 Taylorsville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Taylorsville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 63 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Taylorsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Taylorsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Ogilvies StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- WARNER DOUGBrownfields · 400 ft
- CHARLES KLEINHENZUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- CIRCLE K 65Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- Speedway 6092Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Orville K Fleetwood Asphalt IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- GRANDMAS HOME COOKINUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Service Station 10095Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Columbus Silgas IncorporatedUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- XPO Logistics Freight Incorporated XCWUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- XPO LOGISTICS FREIGHT, INC. - XCMBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- CUMMINS INCORPORATED PILOT CENTER NORTHBrownfields · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Taylorsville'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 Taylorsville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Taylorsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Taylorsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Taylorsville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Taylorsville — PFAS (4 sites) and Superfund (6 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Taylorsville
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 Taylorsville average
Your land is one point inside Taylorsville
Everything above resolves to Taylorsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 681 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 Taylorsville Average
Taylorsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Taylorsville
- ●One soil character for all of Taylorsville
- ●Frost dates read at Taylorsville's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Taylorsville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Taylorsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Taylorsville, Indiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Taylorsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Taylorsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Taylorsville average
How we know this about Taylorsville
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 Taylorsville’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 Taylorsville
When does frost risk typically end in Taylorsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Taylorsville 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 Taylorsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Taylorsville 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 Taylorsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Taylorsville 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 Taylorsville?
The federal record around Taylorsville runs heavier than most — 422 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (250), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Taylorsville?
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 Taylorsville's scale — its 6b band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Taylorsville'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 Taylorsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Taylorsville's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 681 acres it covers and 422 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Taylorsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Taylorsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 5 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 422 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Taylorsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Taylorsville's boundary and the 681 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 Taylorsville's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Taylorsville 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 Taylorsville's 681 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 Taylorsville's 681 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Taylorsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 681 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 Taylorsville-wide figureread your own land →