Moscow Mills, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Moscow Mills, 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 Moscow Mills lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Moscow Mills — the short answer
Moscow Mills, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 225 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~225
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 Moscow Mills's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Moscow Mills's 225-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Moscow Mills
Each reading below is measured for Moscow Mills itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMoscow Mills runs about 225 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
MeasuredMoscow Mills 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 Moscow Mills is in
Moscow Mills sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Moscow Mills's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Lincoln County is mostly Interior River Valleys and Hills. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Moscow Mills
Every plant below cleared Moscow Mills's own zone 6b and its 225-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Moscow Mills?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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.
Documented around Moscow Mills
Survey cells within 31 miles of Moscow Mills checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 245 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Moscow Mills
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Moscow Mills. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FASTLANE MOSCOW MILLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- WULFERT GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- FASTLANE MOSCOW MILLS #47Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- STEPHENS CUSTOM WOOD PRODUCTS INCBrownfields · 1800 ft
- MOSCOW GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ELITE TOOL LLCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- QUICK STOP LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- T48N R01E 04CBA1Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- MOSCOW MILLS - C OUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- IEPPERT MACHINE TOOL & SCREW PRODUCTS INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 0.8 mi
- E AND E MACHINE LLCBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- SHENANDOAH STABLESSuperfund · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Moscow Mills'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 Moscow Mills.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Moscow Mills
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Moscow Mills
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Moscow Mills, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Moscow Mills — PFAS (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (19 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Moscow Mills
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 Moscow Mills average
Your land is one point inside Moscow Mills
Everything above resolves to Moscow Mills 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 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 Moscow Mills Average
Moscow Mills Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Moscow Mills
- ●One soil character for all of Moscow Mills
- ●Frost dates read at Moscow Mills's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Moscow Mills's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Moscow Mills
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Moscow Mills, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Moscow Mills averages can't show:
We read public map data around Moscow Mills — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Moscow Mills average
How we know this about Moscow Mills
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 Moscow Mills’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 Moscow Mills
When does frost risk typically end in Moscow Mills?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Moscow Mills typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Moscow Mills?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Moscow Mills typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 225 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Moscow Mills?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Moscow Mills sees about 225 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 23, about 190 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Moscow Mills?
The federal record around Moscow Mills is a meaningful one — 228 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (120), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Moscow Mills?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Moscow Mills's scale — its 6b band and its 225-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Moscow Mills'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 Moscow Mills’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Moscow Mills's own scale — its own ~225-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,024 acres it covers and 228 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Moscow Mills's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Moscow Mills's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 6 and the ~225-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 228 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Moscow Mills, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Moscow Mills's boundary and the 2,024 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~225-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Moscow Mills sits in the Central Irregular Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Moscow Mills checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Moscow Mills's 2,024 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lincoln County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lincoln 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 Lincoln County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Moscow Mills's 2,024 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Moscow Mills you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,024 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Moscow Mills-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MissouriMoscow Mills sits outside our named growing regions, so Missouri as a whole is its closest context here.
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