Jameson, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Jameson, 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 Jameson lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Jameson — the short answer
Jameson, Missouri: USDA zone 6a, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 143 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- 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
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 143 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 Jameson's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Jameson's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Jameson
Each reading below is measured for Jameson itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredJameson runs about 208 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
MeasuredJameson 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 Jameson is in
Jameson sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Jameson's own centroid rather than borrowed from Daviess County.
What Grows in Jameson
Every plant below cleared Jameson's own zone 6a and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Jameson?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (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. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Jameson
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Jameson. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T60N R27W 18BBB1Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- SMITHFIELD, HICKORY CREEK FARMCAFO · 3.9 mi
- T61N R27W 29BAA 16271Nitrate · 4.0 mi
- MURPHY-BROWN OF MISSOURI LLC-COFFEY FEEDCAFO · 5.0 mi
- T60N R27W 23DAA1Nitrate · 5.1 mi
- T61N R28W 22AAC1Nitrate · 5.2 mi
- GALLATIN GRAINUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- T59N R27W 20Nitrate · 6.1 mi
- TERRY IMPLEMENT COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- TERRY IMPLEMENT CO INCBrownfields · 6.3 mi
- COFFEY MAINT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
- STAN'S TIRE SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Jameson'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 Jameson.
Total Sites
44
within ~10 miles of Jameson
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Jameson
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Jameson
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Jameson, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Jameson — CAFO (7 sites) and Nitrate (20 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside Jameson
Everything above resolves to Jameson as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 143 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 Jameson Average
Jameson Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Jameson
- ●One soil character for all of Jameson
- ●Frost dates read at Jameson's scale: Apr 5 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Jameson's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Jameson
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Jameson, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Jameson — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Jameson
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 Jameson’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 Jameson
When does frost risk typically end in Jameson?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Jameson typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Jameson?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Jameson 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 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Jameson?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Jameson sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 16, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Jameson?
The federal record around Jameson shows 44 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (20), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.8 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 Jameson?
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 Jameson's scale — its 6a band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Jameson'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 Jameson’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Jameson's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 143 acres it covers and 44 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Jameson's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Jameson's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Oct 30 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 44 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Jameson, the closest Nitrate record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Jameson's boundary and the 143 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Jameson's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Jameson's 143 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Daviess County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Daviess 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 Daviess County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Jameson's 143 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Jameson you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 143 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.8 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 Jameson-wide figureread your own land →
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