Kipp, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Kipp, 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 Kipp lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kipp — the short answer
Kipp, Kansas: USDA zone 6b, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 516 acres of town.
- 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 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 516 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 Kipp's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kipp's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kipp
Each reading below is measured for Kipp itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKipp runs about 215 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
MeasuredKipp 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 Kipp is in
Kipp sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Kipp's own centroid rather than borrowed from Saline County.
What Grows in Kipp
Every plant below cleared Kipp's own zone 6b and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kipp?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. 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 4 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Kipp
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kipp. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GREAT PLAINS MANUFACTURING INC KIPPBrownfields · 500 ft
- GREAT PLAINS MANUFACTURING INC KIPPToxics Release Inventory · 500 ft
- SEIM, DEAN HUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- FRISBIE CONST CO INCBrownfields · 5.2 mi
- SALINA WRECKER SVC & TRANSPORT INCBrownfields · 5.5 mi
- GREAT PLAINS MFG INC SALINA IVBrownfields · 5.5 mi
- 15S 02W 26DDD 01Nitrate · 5.6 mi
- KOGLER SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- 15S 02W 35AAA 01Nitrate · 5.7 mi
- 15S 02W 36BBC 01Nitrate · 5.8 mi
- 15S 01W 34BCC 01Nitrate · 5.8 mi
- UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD - GYPSUUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kipp'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 Kipp.
Total Sites
441
within ~10 miles of Kipp
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
13 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kipp
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kipp
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kipp, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Kipp — Superfund (13 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (29 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Kipp
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 Kipp
Everything above resolves to Kipp as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 516 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 Kipp Average
Kipp Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Kipp
- ●One soil character for all of Kipp
- ●Frost dates read at Kipp's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kipp's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kipp
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kipp, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kipp averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kipp — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kipp average
How we know this about Kipp
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 Kipp’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 Kipp
When does frost risk typically end in Kipp?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kipp 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 Kipp?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kipp 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 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kipp?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kipp sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 21, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kipp?
The federal record around Kipp is a meaningful one — 441 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (184), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Kipp?
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 Kipp's scale — its 6b band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kipp'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 Kipp’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Kipp's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 516 acres it covers and 441 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kipp's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kipp's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 4 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 441 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kipp, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kipp's boundary and the 516 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kipp's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kipp's 516 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Saline County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Saline 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 Saline County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kipp's 516 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kipp you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 516 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Kipp-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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