Mine La Motte, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Mine La Motte, 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 Mine La Motte lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mine La Motte — the short answer
Mine La Motte, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 205 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~205
- 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 6b is Mine La Motte's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mine La Motte's 205-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mine La Motte
Each reading below is measured for Mine La Motte itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMine La Motte runs about 205 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
MeasuredMine La Motte 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 Mine La Motte is in
Mine La Motte sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Mine La Motte's own centroid rather than borrowed from Madison County.
What Grows in Mine La Motte
Every plant below cleared Mine La Motte's own zone 6b and its 205-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mine La Motte?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 26 — 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 Mine La Motte
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mine La Motte. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Unknown - LeadMining · 1300 ft
- Golden VeinMining · 1600 ft
- Offset MineMining · 0.6 mi
- Prairie DiggingsMining · 0.6 mi
- FREDERICKTOWN MUNICIPAL AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Shaft Number TenMining · 0.8 mi
- Shaft Number FifteenMining · 0.8 mi
- Mine La MotteMining · 0.9 mi
- Shafts Number Four + TwelveMining · 0.9 mi
- Shaft Number TwoMining · 1.0 mi
- Unknown - Lead.ZincMining · 1.2 mi
- Jack DiggingsMining · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mine La Motte'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 Mine La Motte.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mine La Motte
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mine La Motte
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mine La Motte, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Mine La Motte — Mining (94 sites) and Superfund (4 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
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Your land is one point inside Mine La Motte
Everything above resolves to Mine La Motte 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 Mine La Motte Average
Mine La Motte Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Mine La Motte
- ●One soil character for all of Mine La Motte
- ●Frost dates read at Mine La Motte's scale: Apr 4 to Oct 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mine La Motte's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Mine La Motte — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Mine La Motte
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 Mine La Motte’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 Mine La Motte
When does frost risk typically end in Mine La Motte?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mine La Motte typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Mine La Motte?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mine La Motte typically arrives around Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 12, so the watching starts about Sep 26 — about 205 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mine La Motte?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mine La Motte sees about 205 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Oct 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 12, about 170 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mine La Motte?
The federal record around Mine La Motte runs heavier than most — 150 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (94), the nearest Mining record about 0.2 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Mine La Motte?
From about Sep 26 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mine La Motte's scale — its 6b band and its 205-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mine La Motte'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 Mine La Motte’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Mine La Motte's own scale — its own ~205-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,093 acres it covers and 150 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mine La Motte's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mine La Motte's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Oct 26 and the ~205-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 150 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mine La Motte, the closest Mining record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mine La Motte's boundary and the 2,093 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~205-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mine La Motte's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mine La Motte's 2,093 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Madison County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Madison 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 Madison County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mine La Motte's 2,093 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mine La Motte you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,093 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Mining 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 Mine La Motte-wide figureread your own land →
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