Greilickville, Michigan, 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.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Greilickville, 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 Greilickville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Greilickville — the short answer
Greilickville, Michigan: USDA zone 6a, about 188 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~188
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 6a is Greilickville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Greilickville's 188-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Greilickville
Each reading below is measured for Greilickville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGreilickville runs about 188 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
MeasuredGreilickville 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 Greilickville is in
Greilickville sits in the North Central Hardwood Forests — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Greilickville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Leelanau County.
What Grows in Greilickville
Every plant below cleared Greilickville's own zone 6a and its 188-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Greilickville?
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 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
What's on the federal record near Greilickville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Greilickville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CHERRY BEND FAMILY CAREBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- Joseph Hahnenberg ResidenceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Grand Traverse OverallUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Norris Elementary SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Shugart BuildersUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- The Pathfinder SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- GRAND TRAVERSE OVERALL SUPPLY CO.Superfund · 1.6 mi
- Phils Well DrillingUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- Great Lakes Harbor Management CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- Speedway #2301Underground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- SPEEDWAY LLCBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- GAVANS BODY SHOPBrownfields · 1.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Greilickville'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 Greilickville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Greilickville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Greilickville
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Greilickville, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 12 sites within ~10 miles of Greilickville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Greilickville
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 Greilickville
Everything above resolves to Greilickville 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 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 Greilickville Average
Greilickville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Greilickville
- ●One soil character for all of Greilickville
- ●Frost dates read at Greilickville's scale: Apr 25 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Greilickville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Greilickville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Greilickville, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Greilickville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Greilickville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Greilickville average
How we know this about Greilickville
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 Greilickville’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 Greilickville
When does frost risk typically end in Greilickville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Greilickville typically lands around Apr 25, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Greilickville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Greilickville typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 188 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Greilickville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Greilickville sees about 188 frost-free days — roughly Apr 25 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 16 to Oct 16, about 153 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Greilickville?
The federal record around Greilickville is a meaningful one — 764 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (324), the nearest Brownfields record about 1.1 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 Greilickville?
From about Sep 30 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Greilickville's scale — its 6a band and its 188-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Greilickville'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 Greilickville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Greilickville's own scale — its own ~188-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,940 acres it covers and 764 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Greilickville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Greilickville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 25 and Oct 30 and the ~188-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 764 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Greilickville, the closest Brownfields record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Greilickville's boundary and the 2,940 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~188-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Greilickville's own centroid, the North Central Hardwood ForestsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Greilickville's 2,940 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Leelanau County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Leelanau County
- The growing challenges every Michigan grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Michigan
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Leelanau County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Greilickville's 2,940 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Greilickville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,940 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 1.1 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 Greilickville-wide figureread your own land →