Lebo, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Lebo, 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 Lebo lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lebo — the short answer
Lebo, Kansas: USDA zone 6b, about 219 days between hard freezes, across 612 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- 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
- ~219
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 612 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 Lebo's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lebo's 219-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lebo
Each reading below is measured for Lebo itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLebo runs about 219 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
MeasuredLebo 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 Lebo is in
Lebo sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lebo's own centroid rather than borrowed from Coffey County.
What Grows in Lebo
Every plant below cleared Lebo's own zone 6b and its 219-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lebo?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (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 Lebo
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lebo. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LEBO GARAGEBrownfields · 600 ft
- CASEYS GENERAL STORE - #1266Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- LEBO, CITY OFUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- GOODELL AUTO & TRUCK RPRBrownfields · 1600 ft
- 19S 14E 10CB 01Nitrate · 2200 ft
- KWIK STOP #11Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- LEBO IMPLEMENT COMPANY, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- 19S 14E 17DA 01Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- 18S 14E 10CC 01Nitrate · 5.4 mi
- 18S 13E 27BCB 01Nitrate · 6.5 mi
- APAC KANSAS INCORPORATED SHEARS PLANT 411Toxics Release Inventory · 6.8 mi
- BP TRAVEL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lebo'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 Lebo.
Total Sites
45
within ~10 miles of Lebo
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lebo
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lebo
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lebo, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 26 sites within ~10 miles of Lebo. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Lebo
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 Lebo average
Your land is one point inside Lebo
Everything above resolves to Lebo as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 612 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 Lebo Average
Lebo Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lebo
- ●One soil character for all of Lebo
- ●Frost dates read at Lebo's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lebo's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lebo
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lebo, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lebo averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lebo — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lebo average
How we know this about Lebo
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 Lebo’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 Lebo
When does frost risk typically end in Lebo?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lebo typically lands around Mar 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Lebo?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lebo 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 219 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lebo?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lebo sees about 219 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 21, about 184 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lebo?
The federal record around Lebo is a meaningful one — 45 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (26), 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 Lebo?
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 Lebo's scale — its 6b band and its 219-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lebo'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 Lebo’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lebo's own scale — its own ~219-day season between 28°F freezes, the 612 acres it covers and 45 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lebo's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lebo's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 4 and the ~219-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 45 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lebo, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lebo's boundary and the 612 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~219-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lebo's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lebo's 612 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Coffey County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Coffey 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 Coffey County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lebo's 612 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lebo you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 612 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 Lebo-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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