Edgewood, Kentucky, 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 Edgewood, 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 Edgewood 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 Edgewood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Edgewood — the short answer
Edgewood, Kentucky: USDA zone 6b, about 225 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~225
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 3K 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 Edgewood's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Edgewood's 225-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Edgewood
Each reading below is measured for Edgewood itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEdgewood runs about 225 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
MeasuredEdgewood 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 Edgewood is in
Edgewood sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Edgewood's own centroid rather than borrowed from Kenton County.
What Grows in Edgewood
Every plant below cleared Edgewood's own zone 6b and its 225-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Edgewood?
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 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — 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.
Documented around Edgewood
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Edgewood, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Edgewood
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Edgewood. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- City Of EdgewoodUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Edgewood SuperetteUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- ST. ELIZABETH HEALTHCARE EDGEWOODBrownfields · 1300 ft
- Community Ltd Care Dialysis CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Northern Kentucky Rehabilitation HospitalUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- A21D0182Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- Summit HillsUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- TRI-STATE GASTROENTEROLOGY ASSOCIATESBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- Dudley Road Shell #45Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- JDs Food Mart 2Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- TURKEY FOOT MIDDLE SCHOOL MERCURY SPILLSuperfund · 1.1 mi
- A21D0183Nitrate · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Edgewood'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 Edgewood.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Edgewood
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Edgewood
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Edgewood, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Edgewood — Toxics Release Inventory (137 sites) and Superfund (25 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Edgewood
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 Edgewood average
Your land is one point inside Edgewood
Everything above resolves to Edgewood as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Edgewood Average
Edgewood Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Edgewood
- ●One soil character for all of Edgewood
- ●Frost dates read at Edgewood's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Edgewood's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Edgewood
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Edgewood, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Edgewood averages can't show:
We read public map data around Edgewood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Edgewood average
How we know this about Edgewood
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 Edgewood’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 Edgewood
When does frost risk typically end in Edgewood?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Edgewood typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Edgewood?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Edgewood typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 225 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Edgewood?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Edgewood sees about 225 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 28, about 190 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Edgewood?
The federal record around Edgewood is a meaningful one — 1,699 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,093), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Edgewood?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Edgewood's scale — its 6b band and its 225-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Edgewood'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 Edgewood’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Edgewood's own scale — its own ~225-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,728 acres it covers and 1,699 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Edgewood's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Edgewood's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 11 and the ~225-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,699 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Edgewood, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Edgewood's boundary and the 2,728 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~225-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Edgewood's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Edgewoodlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Edgewood's 2,728 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Kenton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Kenton County
- The growing challenges every Kentucky grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kentucky
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Kenton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Edgewood's 2,728 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Edgewood you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,728 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Edgewood-wide figureread your own land →
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