Rosebud, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Rosebud, 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 Rosebud lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Rosebud — the short answer
Rosebud, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 209 days between hard freezes, across 557 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- 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 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~209
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 557 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 Rosebud's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Rosebud's 209-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Rosebud
Each reading below is measured for Rosebud itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRosebud runs about 209 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
MeasuredRosebud 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 Rosebud is in
Rosebud sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Rosebud's own centroid rather than borrowed from Gasconade County.
What Grows in Rosebud
Every plant below cleared Rosebud's own zone 6b and its 209-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Rosebud?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. 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 31 — 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.
Documented around Rosebud
Survey cells within 31 miles of Rosebud checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 291 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Rosebud
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Rosebud. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T42N R04W 17BCB1Nitrate · 500 ft
- WEHMEYER MOTORS INCBrownfields · 950 ft
- ROSEBUD TRACTOR & EQUIPMENT CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- WEHMEYER MOTORSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- T42N R05W 17BBB1Nitrate · 1100 ft
- WEATHERFORD PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- ROSEBUD GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SAM'S SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- G & G WELDINGBrownfields · 3.0 mi
- T42N R04W 11ACA1Nitrate · 3.8 mi
- T22N R04W 02DCC1Nitrate · 3.8 mi
- Sickendick LandMining · 3.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Rosebud'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 Rosebud.
Total Sites
86
within ~10 miles of Rosebud
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
8 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Rosebud
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Rosebud
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Rosebud, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Rosebud — Toxics Release Inventory (8 sites) and Nitrate (24 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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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 Rosebud average
Your land is one point inside Rosebud
Everything above resolves to Rosebud as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 557 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 Rosebud Average
Rosebud Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Rosebud
- ●One soil character for all of Rosebud
- ●Frost dates read at Rosebud's scale: Apr 5 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Rosebud's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Rosebud
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Rosebud, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Rosebud averages can't show:
We read public map data around Rosebud — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Rosebud average
How we know this about Rosebud
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 Rosebud’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 Rosebud
When does frost risk typically end in Rosebud?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Rosebud 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 Rosebud?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Rosebud typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 209 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Rosebud?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Rosebud sees about 209 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 17, about 174 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Rosebud?
The federal record around Rosebud shows 86 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (36), the nearest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile 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 Rosebud?
From about Oct 1 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 31 (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 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Rosebud's scale — its 6b band and its 209-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Rosebud'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 Rosebud’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Rosebud's own scale — its own ~209-day season between 28°F freezes, the 557 acres it covers and 86 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Rosebud's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Rosebud's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Oct 31 and the ~209-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 86 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Rosebud, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Rosebud's boundary and the 557 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~209-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Rosebud's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Rosebud 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 Rosebud's 557 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Gasconade County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Gasconade 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 Gasconade County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Rosebud's 557 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Rosebud you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 557 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile 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 Rosebud-wide figureread your own land →
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