Lovelaceville, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lovelaceville, 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 Lovelaceville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lovelaceville — the short answer
Lovelaceville, Kentucky: USDA zone 7a, about 235 days between hard freezes, across 323 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~235
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 323 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 7a is Lovelaceville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lovelaceville's 235-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lovelaceville
Each reading below is measured for Lovelaceville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLovelaceville runs about 235 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
MeasuredLovelaceville sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Lovelaceville is in
Lovelaceville sits in the Mississippi Valley Loess Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lovelaceville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ballard County.
What Grows in Lovelaceville
Every plant below cleared Lovelaceville's own zone 7a and its 235-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lovelaceville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 12 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Lovelaceville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lovelaceville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Low Cost TransmissionUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- Costas Car CareUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- J4B0106Nitrate · 800 ft
- Cutmart #2Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Lovelaceville FeedmillUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Effies BuffetUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- J4B0125Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- Mabry ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- Kerry Mays B & M TiresUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- J4B0070Nitrate · 2.2 mi
- J4B0086Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- Boulton PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lovelaceville'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 Lovelaceville.
Total Sites
197
within ~10 miles of Lovelaceville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lovelaceville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lovelaceville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lovelaceville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lovelaceville — Nitrate (106 sites) and Superfund (3 sites). 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.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Lovelaceville
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Your land is one point inside Lovelaceville
Everything above resolves to Lovelaceville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 323 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 Lovelaceville Average
Lovelaceville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Lovelaceville
- ●One soil character for all of Lovelaceville
- ●Frost dates read at Lovelaceville's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lovelaceville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lovelaceville
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Three things about your lot that Lovelaceville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lovelaceville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lovelaceville average
How we know this about Lovelaceville
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 Lovelaceville’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 Lovelaceville
When does frost risk typically end in Lovelaceville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lovelaceville typically lands around Mar 22, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Lovelaceville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lovelaceville typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 235 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lovelaceville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lovelaceville sees about 235 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Oct 29, about 200 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lovelaceville?
The federal record around Lovelaceville is a meaningful one — 197 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (106), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Lovelaceville?
From about Oct 13 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lovelaceville's scale — its 7a band and its 235-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lovelaceville'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 Lovelaceville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lovelaceville's own scale — its own ~235-day season between 28°F freezes, the 323 acres it covers and 197 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lovelaceville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lovelaceville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 12 and the ~235-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 197 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lovelaceville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lovelaceville's boundary and the 323 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~235-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lovelaceville's own centroid, the Mississippi Valley Loess PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lovelaceville's 323 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ballard County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ballard 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 Ballard County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lovelaceville's 323 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lovelaceville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 323 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 Lovelaceville-wide figureread your own land →