Bremen, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Bremen, 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 Bremen lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bremen — the short answer
Bremen, Kansas: USDA zone 6a, about 199 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- 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 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~199
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Bremen's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bremen's 199-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bremen
Each reading below is measured for Bremen itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBremen runs about 199 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBremen 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 Bremen is in
Bremen sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Bremen's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Marshall County is mostly Western Corn Belt Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Bremen
Every plant below cleared Bremen's own zone 6a and its 199-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bremen?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Bremen
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bremen. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 02S 06E 03BC 01Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- 02S 05E 09DAB 01Nitrate · 3.6 mi
- 02S 05E 09BDA 01Nitrate · 4.0 mi
- 02S 05E 36AB 01Nitrate · 4.1 mi
- BILL'S SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- O.K. SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- HERKIMER CO-OP BUSINESS ASSN.Underground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- HERKIMER COOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- O K SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- WALMART 341Brownfields · 4.7 mi
- KANSAS DEPT OF TRANSPORTATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- HANOVER WASTE WATER TREATMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bremen'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 Bremen.
Total Sites
96
within ~10 miles of Bremen
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bremen
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bremen
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bremen, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 34 sites within ~10 miles of Bremen. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Bremen
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 Bremen average
Your land is one point inside Bremen
Everything above resolves to Bremen as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Bremen Average
Bremen Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Bremen
- ●One soil character for all of Bremen
- ●Frost dates read at Bremen's scale: Apr 7 to Oct 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bremen's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bremen
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bremen, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bremen averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bremen — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bremen average
How we know this about Bremen
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 Bremen’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 Bremen
When does frost risk typically end in Bremen?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bremen 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 Bremen?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bremen typically arrives around Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 9, so the watching starts about Sep 23 — about 199 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bremen?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bremen sees about 199 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 9, about 164 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bremen?
The federal record around Bremen shows 96 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (47), the nearest Nitrate record about 2.6 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 Bremen?
From about Sep 23 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bremen's scale — its 6a band and its 199-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bremen'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 Bremen’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Bremen's own scale — its own ~199-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,082 acres it covers and 96 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bremen's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bremen's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Oct 23 and the ~199-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 96 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bremen, the closest Nitrate record about 2.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bremen's boundary and the 1,082 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~199-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Bremen sits in the Central Great Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bremen's 1,082 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Marshall County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Marshall County
- The growing challenges every Kansas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kansas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Marshall County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bremen's 1,082 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bremen you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,082 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 2.6 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 Bremen-wide figureread your own land →
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