Woodstock, Minnesota, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Woodstock, 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 Woodstock 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 Woodstock — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Woodstock — the short answer
Woodstock, Minnesota: USDA zone 4b, about 170 days between hard freezes, across 345 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~170
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 345 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 4b is Woodstock's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Woodstock's 170-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Woodstock
Each reading below is measured for Woodstock itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWoodstock runs about 170 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
MeasuredWoodstock sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b.
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 Woodstock is in
Woodstock sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Woodstock's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Pipestone County is mostly Northern Glaciated Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Woodstock
Every plant below cleared Woodstock's own zone 4b and its 170-day season. Each card opens that plant's Minnesota profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Woodstock?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Woodstock
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Woodstock. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WOODSTOCK SERVICEBrownfields · 1100 ft
- Marvin HeardUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- STONERAY WFBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- SIEMENS ENERGY INCBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- HORD FARMS WEST - KAS NURSERYCAFO · 1.7 mi
- FACCENDIERE-MANDERSCHEIDCAFO · 3.1 mi
- ROB VANHILLCAFO · 3.3 mi
- LEON KRACHT FARMCAFO · 3.6 mi
- 199702Nitrate · 3.7 mi
- EDF RENEWABLES- CHANARAMBIEBrownfields · 3.7 mi
- KEN WINSEL FARM SEC 22CAFO · 4.0 mi
- VELDHUIZEN FARMSCAFO · 4.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Woodstock'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 Woodstock.
Total Sites
79
within ~10 miles of Woodstock
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
4 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Woodstock
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Woodstock
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Woodstock, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 20 sites within ~10 miles of Woodstock. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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 Woodstock
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 Woodstock average
Your land is one point inside Woodstock
Everything above resolves to Woodstock as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 345 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 Woodstock Average
Woodstock Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Woodstock
- ●One soil character for all of Woodstock
- ●Frost dates read at Woodstock's scale: Apr 23 to Oct 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Woodstock's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Woodstock
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Woodstock, Minnesota — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Woodstock averages can't show:
We read public map data around Woodstock — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Woodstock average
How we know this about Woodstock
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 Woodstock’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 Woodstock
When does frost risk typically end in Woodstock?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Woodstock typically lands around Apr 23, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Woodstock?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Woodstock typically arrives around Oct 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 26, so the watching starts about Sep 10 — about 170 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Woodstock?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Woodstock sees about 170 frost-free days — roughly Apr 23 through Oct 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 14 to Sep 26, about 135 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Woodstock?
The federal record around Woodstock shows 79 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (29), the nearest Brownfields 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 Woodstock?
From about Sep 10 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Woodstock's scale — its 4b band and its 170-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Woodstock'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 Woodstock’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Woodstock's own scale — its own ~170-day season between 28°F freezes, the 345 acres it covers and 79 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Woodstock's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Woodstock's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 23 and Oct 10 and the ~170-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 79 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Woodstock, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Woodstock's boundary and the 345 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~170-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Woodstock sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Woodstock's 345 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pipestone County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pipestone 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 Pipestone County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Woodstock's 345 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Woodstock you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 345 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Woodstock-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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