Lynd, Minnesota, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
These conditions suit cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lynd, 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 Lynd lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Lynd — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lynd — the short answer
Lynd, Minnesota: USDA zone 5a, about 180 days between hard freezes, across 740 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 5a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~180
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 740 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 5a is Lynd's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lynd's 180-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lynd
Each reading below is measured for Lynd itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLynd runs about 180 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
MeasuredLynd sits in USDA hardiness zone 5a.
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 Lynd is in
Lynd sits in the Northern Glaciated Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lynd's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lyon County.
What Grows in Lynd
Every plant below cleared Lynd's own zone 5a and its 180-day season. Each card opens that plant's Minnesota profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lynd?
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 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 16 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Lynd
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lynd. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- City Of Lynd Water PlantUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- D&G EXCAVATING INCBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- DONALD AND EDWARD DE LANGHE FCAFO · 3.1 mi
- DELANGHE, DONALD J.CAFO · 3.1 mi
- WILD FLOYD INCBrownfields · 3.3 mi
- 110N42W11AAA 01 De BaereNitrate · 3.3 mi
- Dulas Construction IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- 111N40W20ABB 01Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- SOUTHWEST COACHES INCBrownfields · 3.5 mi
- 110N42W05ACB 01 Camden ParkNitrate · 3.5 mi
- KANE TRANSPORT INCBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- 111N41W08CDD 01 MarshallNitrate · 3.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lynd'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 Lynd.
Total Sites
255
within ~10 miles of Lynd
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
10 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lynd
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lynd
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lynd, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 8 sites within ~10 miles of Lynd. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Lynd
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 Lynd average
Your land is one point inside Lynd
Everything above resolves to Lynd as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 740 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 Lynd Average
Lynd Average
- ●USDA Zones 5a, averaged across Lynd
- ●One soil character for all of Lynd
- ●Frost dates read at Lynd's scale: Apr 19 to Oct 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lynd's 5a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lynd
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lynd, Minnesota — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lynd averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lynd — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lynd average
How we know this about Lynd
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 Lynd’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 Lynd
When does frost risk typically end in Lynd?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lynd typically lands around Apr 19, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Lynd?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lynd typically arrives around Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 2, so the watching starts about Sep 16 — about 180 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lynd?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lynd sees about 180 frost-free days — roughly Apr 19 through Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 10 to Oct 2, about 145 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lynd?
The federal record around Lynd is a meaningful one — 255 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (106), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Lynd?
From about Sep 16 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lynd's scale — its 5a band and its 180-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lynd'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 Lynd’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lynd's own scale — its own ~180-day season between 28°F freezes, the 740 acres it covers and 255 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lynd's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lynd's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 19 and Oct 16 and the ~180-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 255 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lynd, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lynd's boundary and the 740 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5a and a ~180-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lynd's own centroid, the Northern Glaciated PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lynd's 740 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lyon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lyon County
- The growing challenges every Minnesota grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Minnesota
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Lyon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lynd's 740 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lynd you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 740 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Lynd-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MinnesotaLynd sits outside our named growing regions, so Minnesota as a whole is its closest context here.