Taylorsville, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Taylorsville, 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 Taylorsville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Taylorsville — the short answer
Taylorsville, Kentucky: USDA zone 7a, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 600 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 600 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 Taylorsville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Taylorsville's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Taylorsville
Each reading below is measured for Taylorsville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTaylorsville runs about 221 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
MeasuredTaylorsville 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 Taylorsville is in
Taylorsville sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Taylorsville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Spencer County.
What Grows in Taylorsville
Every plant below cleared Taylorsville's own zone 7a and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Taylorsville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — 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 Taylorsville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Taylorsville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 54 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Taylorsville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Taylorsville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Stan Janik (Steve E Mcgaughey)Underground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- Akins Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- J & A Body ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Greenhill FarmUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Tri-Star SupermarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Taylorsville Elementary SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- Mckinley Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Taylorsville MarathonUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Taylorsville Quick StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Ricks Auto ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Spencer Farm ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- Kraft IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Taylorsville'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 Taylorsville.
Total Sites
69
within ~10 miles of Taylorsville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
14 nitrate monitoring sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Taylorsville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Taylorsville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Taylorsville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 54 sites within ~10 miles of Taylorsville. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Taylorsville
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Taylorsville
Everything above resolves to Taylorsville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 600 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 Taylorsville Average
Taylorsville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Taylorsville
- ●One soil character for all of Taylorsville
- ●Frost dates read at Taylorsville's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Taylorsville's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Taylorsville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Taylorsville, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Taylorsville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Taylorsville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Taylorsville average
How we know this about Taylorsville
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 Taylorsville’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 Taylorsville
When does frost risk typically end in Taylorsville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Taylorsville typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Taylorsville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Taylorsville typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Taylorsville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Taylorsville sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 25, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Taylorsville?
The federal record around Taylorsville shows 69 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (54), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Taylorsville?
From about Oct 9 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Taylorsville's scale — its 7a band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Taylorsville'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 Taylorsville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Taylorsville's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 600 acres it covers and 69 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Taylorsville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Taylorsville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 8 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 69 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Taylorsville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Taylorsville's boundary and the 600 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Taylorsville's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Taylorsville checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Taylorsville's 600 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Spencer County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Spencer 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 Spencer County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Taylorsville's 600 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Taylorsville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 600 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 Taylorsville-wide figureread your own land →
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