Grovespring, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Grovespring, 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 Grovespring lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Grovespring — the short answer
Grovespring, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 220 days between hard freezes, across 764 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~220
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 764 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 6b is Grovespring's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Grovespring's 220-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Grovespring
Each reading below is measured for Grovespring itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGrovespring runs about 220 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
MeasuredGrovespring sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Grovespring is in
Grovespring sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Grovespring's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wright County.
What Grows in Grovespring
Every plant below cleared Grovespring's own zone 6b and its 220-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Grovespring?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Grovespring
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Grovespring. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KRAZY KORNER INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- T31N R15W 17DAC1Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- GREGS BODYWORKSBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- DANIEL PITTSCAFO · 3.2 mi
- RADER STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.3 mi
- MILLER SUPPLY COUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.6 mi
- KOSTER TIREUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.4 mi
- WALMART SUPERCENTER #78Brownfields · 9.5 mi
- BILL SHRECKCAFO · 9.9 mi
Measured from Grovespring'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 Grovespring.
Total Sites
10
within ~10 miles of Grovespring
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Grovespring
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Grovespring
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
Check your specific parcel in Grovespring
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 Grovespring average
Your land is one point inside Grovespring
Everything above resolves to Grovespring as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 764 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 Grovespring Average
Grovespring Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Grovespring
- ●One soil character for all of Grovespring
- ●Frost dates read at Grovespring's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Grovespring's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Grovespring
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We read public map data around Grovespring — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Grovespring average
How we know this about Grovespring
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 Grovespring’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 Grovespring
When does frost risk typically end in Grovespring?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Grovespring typically lands around Mar 29, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Grovespring?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Grovespring typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 220 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Grovespring?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Grovespring sees about 220 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 21, about 185 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Grovespring?
The federal record around Grovespring is light — 10 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (4), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Grovespring?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Grovespring's scale — its 6b band and its 220-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Grovespring'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 Grovespring’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Grovespring's own scale — its own ~220-day season between 28°F freezes, the 764 acres it covers and 10 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Grovespring's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Grovespring's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 4 and the ~220-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 10 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Grovespring, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Grovespring's boundary and the 764 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~220-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Grovespring's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Grovespring's 764 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wright County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wright County
- The growing challenges every Missouri grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Missouri
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Wright County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Grovespring's 764 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Grovespring you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 764 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 Grovespring-wide figureread your own land →
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