Enterprise, Kansas, 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.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Enterprise, 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 Enterprise 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 Enterprise — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Enterprise — the short answer
Enterprise, Kansas: USDA zone 6b, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 429 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 429 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 Enterprise's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Enterprise's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Enterprise
Each reading below is measured for Enterprise itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEnterprise 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
MeasuredEnterprise 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 Enterprise is in
Enterprise sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Enterprise's own centroid rather than borrowed from Dickinson County.
What Grows in Enterprise
Every plant below cleared Enterprise's own zone 6b and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Enterprise?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Enterprise
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Enterprise. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ABB-RAYMONDBrownfields · 650 ft
- PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- GREAT PLAINS MANUFACTURING INC - ENTERPRISEBrownfields · 800 ft
- KRISHER'S KORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- AT&SF RAILWAY COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- MIDCO PLASTICS INCBrownfields · 1700 ft
- 13S 03E 20ACC 01Nitrate · 2100 ft
- 13S 03E 20ACC 02Nitrate · 2100 ft
- ENTERPRISE MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- 13S 03E 20ACB 01Nitrate · 0.5 mi
- 13S 03E 20ABB 01Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- 13S 03E 20ABB 02Nitrate · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Enterprise'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 Enterprise.
Total Sites
184
within ~10 miles of Enterprise
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Enterprise
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Enterprise
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Enterprise, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 66 sites within ~10 miles of Enterprise. 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 Enterprise
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 Enterprise average
Your land is one point inside Enterprise
Everything above resolves to Enterprise as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 429 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 city 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 Enterprise Average
Enterprise Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Enterprise
- ●One soil character for all of Enterprise
- ●Frost dates read at Enterprise's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Enterprise's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Enterprise
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Enterprise, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Enterprise averages can't show:
We read public map data around Enterprise — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Enterprise average
How we know this about Enterprise
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Enterprise’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Enterprise
When does frost risk typically end in Enterprise?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Enterprise typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Enterprise?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Enterprise typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Enterprise?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Enterprise sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 19, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Enterprise?
The federal record around Enterprise is a meaningful one — 184 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (69), the nearest Brownfields 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 Enterprise?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Enterprise's scale — its 6b band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Enterprise'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 Enterprise’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Enterprise's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 429 acres it covers and 184 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Enterprise's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Enterprise's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 2 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 184 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Enterprise, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Enterprise's boundary and the 429 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Enterprise's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Enterprise's 429 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Dickinson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Dickinson 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 Dickinson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Enterprise's 429 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Enterprise you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 429 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Enterprise-wide figureread your own land →
More in Kansas
Wider growing context
What grows across KansasEnterprise sits outside our named growing regions, so Kansas as a whole is its closest context here.