Robin Glen-Indiantown, Michigan, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Robin Glen-Indiantown, 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 Robin Glen-Indiantown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Robin Glen-Indiantown — the short answer
Robin Glen-Indiantown, Michigan: USDA zone 6a, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Robin Glen-Indiantown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Robin Glen-Indiantown's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Robin Glen-Indiantown
Each reading below is measured for Robin Glen-Indiantown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRobin Glen-Indiantown runs about 201 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
MeasuredRobin Glen-Indiantown 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 Robin Glen-Indiantown is in
Robin Glen-Indiantown sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Robin Glen-Indiantown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Saginaw County.
What Grows in Robin Glen-Indiantown
Every plant below cleared Robin Glen-Indiantown's own zone 6a and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's Michigan profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Robin Glen-Indiantown?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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 Robin Glen-Indiantown
Survey cells within 31 miles of Robin Glen-Indiantown checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 65 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Robin Glen-Indiantown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Robin Glen-Indiantown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Jack DeisigUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- DUPERON CORPORATIONBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- Robert RuytsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATIONBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLCBrownfields · 2.1 mi
- ROTOR COATERS INTERNATIONALToxics Release Inventory · 2.1 mi
- WINZER CORPORATIONBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- MICHIGAN KENWORTH LLCBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- SAFETY KLEEN SYSTEMS INCBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- SAFETY KLEEN SYSTEMS INCToxics Release Inventory · 2.3 mi
- MICHIGAN TRUCK SPRING OF SAGINAWBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- T. M. WoernUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Robin Glen-Indiantown'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 Robin Glen-Indiantown.
Total Sites
1,191
within ~10 miles of Robin Glen-Indiantown
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
8 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Robin Glen-Indiantown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Robin Glen-Indiantown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Robin Glen-Indiantown, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 11 sites within ~10 miles of Robin Glen-Indiantown. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Robin Glen-Indiantown
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 Robin Glen-Indiantown average
Your land is one point inside Robin Glen-Indiantown
Everything above resolves to Robin Glen-Indiantown as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Robin Glen-Indiantown Average
Robin Glen-Indiantown Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Robin Glen-Indiantown
- ●One soil character for all of Robin Glen-Indiantown
- ●Frost dates read at Robin Glen-Indiantown's scale: Apr 16 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Robin Glen-Indiantown's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Robin Glen-Indiantown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Robin Glen-Indiantown, Michigan — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Robin Glen-Indiantown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Robin Glen-Indiantown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Robin Glen-Indiantown average
How we know this about Robin Glen-Indiantown
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 Robin Glen-Indiantown’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 Robin Glen-Indiantown
When does frost risk typically end in Robin Glen-Indiantown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Robin Glen-Indiantown typically lands around Apr 16, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Robin Glen-Indiantown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Robin Glen-Indiantown typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Robin Glen-Indiantown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Robin Glen-Indiantown sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 20, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Robin Glen-Indiantown?
The federal record around Robin Glen-Indiantown is a meaningful one — 1,191 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (593), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Robin Glen-Indiantown?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Robin Glen-Indiantown's scale — its 6a band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Robin Glen-Indiantown'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 Robin Glen-Indiantown’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Robin Glen-Indiantown's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,796 acres it covers and 1,191 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Robin Glen-Indiantown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Robin Glen-Indiantown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Nov 3 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,191 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Robin Glen-Indiantown, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Robin Glen-Indiantown's boundary and the 1,796 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Robin Glen-Indiantown's own centroid, the Huron/Erie Lake PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Robin Glen-Indiantown 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 Robin Glen-Indiantown's 1,796 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Saginaw County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Saginaw 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 Saginaw County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Robin Glen-Indiantown's 1,796 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Robin Glen-Indiantown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,796 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Robin Glen-Indiantown-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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