Harveyville, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Harveyville, 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 Harveyville 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 Harveyville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Harveyville — the short answer
Harveyville, Kansas: USDA zone 6b, about 216 days between hard freezes, across 86 acres of city.
- 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 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~216
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 86 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 Harveyville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Harveyville's 216-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Harveyville
Each reading below is measured for Harveyville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHarveyville runs about 216 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
MeasuredHarveyville 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 Harveyville is in
Harveyville sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Harveyville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Wabaunsee County is mostly Flint Hills. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Harveyville
Every plant below cleared Harveyville's own zone 6b and its 216-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Harveyville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 4 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Harveyville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Harveyville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HARVEYVILLE SEED CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- FAA-QBH RMLRUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- D & C'S DINNER & GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- CARRIER, ROBERTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- LESTER'S SERVICE & REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- 14S 12E 36DDD 01Nitrate · 3.3 mi
- ANTHONY BELL, LLCCAFO · 4.8 mi
- 15S 13E 19CAD 01Nitrate · 5.0 mi
- 15S 13E 25BA 01Nitrate · 5.1 mi
- 13S 12E 36CDC 01Nitrate · 6.8 mi
- 15S 14E 21CD 01Nitrate · 6.8 mi
- 15S 14E 21CDD 01Nitrate · 6.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Harveyville'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 Harveyville.
Total Sites
46
within ~10 miles of Harveyville
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 concentrated animal feeding operation
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Harveyville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Harveyville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Harveyville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 22 sites within ~10 miles of Harveyville. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Harveyville
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 Harveyville average
Your land is one point inside Harveyville
Everything above resolves to Harveyville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 86 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 Harveyville Average
Harveyville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Harveyville
- ●One soil character for all of Harveyville
- ●Frost dates read at Harveyville's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Harveyville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Harveyville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Harveyville, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Harveyville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Harveyville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Harveyville average
How we know this about Harveyville
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 Harveyville’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 Harveyville
When does frost risk typically end in Harveyville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Harveyville 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 Harveyville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Harveyville typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 216 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Harveyville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Harveyville sees about 216 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 21, about 181 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Harveyville?
The federal record around Harveyville is light — 46 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (22), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Harveyville?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Harveyville's scale — its 6b band and its 216-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Harveyville'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 Harveyville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Harveyville's own scale — its own ~216-day season between 28°F freezes, the 86 acres it covers and 46 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Harveyville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Harveyville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 4 and the ~216-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 46 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Harveyville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Harveyville's boundary and the 86 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~216-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Harveyville sits in the Central Irregular 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 Harveyville's 86 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wabaunsee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wabaunsee 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 Wabaunsee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Harveyville's 86 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Harveyville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 86 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 Harveyville-wide figureread your own land →
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