Liebenthal, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Liebenthal, 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 Liebenthal lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Liebenthal — the short answer
Liebenthal, Kansas: USDA zone 6a, about 198 days between hard freezes, across 72 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~198
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 72 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 Liebenthal's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Liebenthal's 198-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Liebenthal
Each reading below is measured for Liebenthal itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLiebenthal runs about 198 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
MeasuredLiebenthal 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 Liebenthal is in
Liebenthal sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Liebenthal's own centroid rather than borrowed from Rush County.
What Grows in Liebenthal
Every plant below cleared Liebenthal's own zone 6a and its 198-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Liebenthal?
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 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
What's on the federal record near Liebenthal
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Liebenthal. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 16S 18W 16DCC 01Nitrate · 350 ft
- 16S 18W 10CB 01Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- RK SVC SALVAGE & TOWINGBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- 16S 18W 27CDD 01Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- 16S 18W 06DAC 01Nitrate · 2.8 mi
- LESSMAN GARDEN CTRBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- JOHNNIES SERVICE & RPRUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- 15S 18W 33BAA 01Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- 15S 18W 27CCB 01Nitrate · 4.1 mi
- FORMER GROCERY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- 15S 18W 29DDD 01Nitrate · 4.2 mi
- 15S 18W 27CBD 01Nitrate · 4.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Liebenthal'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 Liebenthal.
Total Sites
127
within ~10 miles of Liebenthal
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 concentrated animal feeding operation
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Liebenthal
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Liebenthal
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Liebenthal, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 110 sites within ~10 miles of Liebenthal. 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 Liebenthal
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 Liebenthal average
Your land is one point inside Liebenthal
Everything above resolves to Liebenthal as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 72 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 Liebenthal Average
Liebenthal Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Liebenthal
- ●One soil character for all of Liebenthal
- ●Frost dates read at Liebenthal's scale: Apr 10 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Liebenthal's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Liebenthal
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Liebenthal, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Liebenthal averages can't show:
We read public map data around Liebenthal — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Liebenthal average
How we know this about Liebenthal
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 Liebenthal’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 Liebenthal
When does frost risk typically end in Liebenthal?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Liebenthal typically lands around Apr 10, 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 May 1.
When is the first frost in Liebenthal?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Liebenthal typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 198 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Liebenthal?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Liebenthal sees about 198 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 11, about 163 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Liebenthal?
The federal record around Liebenthal shows 127 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (110), the nearest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile 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 Liebenthal?
From about Sep 25 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Liebenthal's scale — its 6a band and its 198-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Liebenthal'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 Liebenthal’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Liebenthal's own scale — its own ~198-day season between 28°F freezes, the 72 acres it covers and 127 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Liebenthal's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Liebenthal's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Oct 25 and the ~198-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 127 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Liebenthal, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Liebenthal's boundary and the 72 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~198-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Liebenthal's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Liebenthal's 72 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Rush County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Rush 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 Rush County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Liebenthal's 72 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Liebenthal you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 72 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Liebenthal-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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