Sadieville, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Sadieville, 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 Sadieville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Sadieville — the short answer
Sadieville, Kentucky: USDA zone 6b, about 222 days between hard freezes, across 693 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 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~222
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 693 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 Sadieville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Sadieville's 222-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Sadieville
Each reading below is measured for Sadieville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSadieville runs about 222 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
MeasuredSadieville 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 Sadieville is in
Sadieville sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Sadieville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Scott County.
What Grows in Sadieville
Every plant below cleared Sadieville's own zone 6b and its 222-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Sadieville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. 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 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Sadieville
Spotted lanternfly documented 28 miles from Sadieville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Sadieville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Sadieville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Sadieville Elementary SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Kenneth A Wilson PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Sadieville BP StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Sadieville WWTPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Sadieville R-L330940Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Loves Travel Stop #618Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Georgetown Rmlr QniUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- Alberta Junction 0071105Underground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- D22C0025Nitrate · 6.2 mi
- Conley Trucking IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
- AICHI FORGE USA INCToxics Release Inventory · 6.9 mi
- WALTERS TRUCK &TRAILER REPAIR, INCBrownfields · 7.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Sadieville'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 Sadieville.
Total Sites
67
within ~10 miles of Sadieville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Sadieville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Sadieville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Sadieville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 50 sites within ~10 miles of Sadieville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Sadieville
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 Sadieville average
Your land is one point inside Sadieville
Everything above resolves to Sadieville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 693 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 Sadieville Average
Sadieville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Sadieville
- ●One soil character for all of Sadieville
- ●Frost dates read at Sadieville's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Sadieville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Sadieville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Sadieville, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Sadieville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Sadieville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Sadieville average
How we know this about Sadieville
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 Sadieville’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 Sadieville
When does frost risk typically end in Sadieville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Sadieville 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 Sadieville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Sadieville typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 222 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Sadieville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Sadieville sees about 222 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 24, about 187 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Sadieville?
The federal record around Sadieville shows 67 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (50), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles 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 Sadieville?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Sadieville's scale — its 6b band and its 222-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Sadieville'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 Sadieville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Sadieville's own scale — its own ~222-day season between 28°F freezes, the 693 acres it covers and 67 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Sadieville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Sadieville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 7 and the ~222-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 67 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Sadieville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Sadieville's boundary and the 693 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~222-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Sadieville's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Sadievillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Sadieville's 693 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Scott County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Scott 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 Scott County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Sadieville's 693 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Sadieville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 693 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Sadieville-wide figureread your own land →
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