Tarsney Lakes, 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 Tarsney Lakes, 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 Tarsney Lakes lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Tarsney Lakes — the short answer
Tarsney Lakes, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 196 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- 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
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 196 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 Tarsney Lakes's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tarsney Lakes's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tarsney Lakes
Each reading below is measured for Tarsney Lakes itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTarsney Lakes runs about 221 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
MeasuredTarsney Lakes 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 Tarsney Lakes is in
Tarsney Lakes sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Tarsney Lakes's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jackson County.
What Grows in Tarsney Lakes
Every plant below cleared Tarsney Lakes's own zone 6b and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tarsney Lakes?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Tarsney Lakes
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tarsney Lakes. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- OLD GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- T48N R30W 25BCB1Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- LAKE LOTAWANA ASSOCIATION INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- COUNTRY MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- LEO'S GAS & HARDWARE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- CITY OF LAKE LOTAWANA - CITY HALLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- LOTAWANA FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- JACKSON ARMORYBrownfields · 3.0 mi
- LAKE LOTAWANA SPORTMAN'S CLUBSuperfund · 3.1 mi
- MASON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- STAFFORD & COMPANYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- TEMP STOP #111Underground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tarsney Lakes'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 Tarsney Lakes.
Total Sites
394
within ~10 miles of Tarsney Lakes
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tarsney Lakes
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tarsney Lakes
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tarsney Lakes, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 7 sites within ~10 miles of Tarsney Lakes. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Tarsney Lakes
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Tarsney Lakes
Everything above resolves to Tarsney Lakes as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 196 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 Tarsney Lakes Average
Tarsney Lakes Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Tarsney Lakes
- ●One soil character for all of Tarsney Lakes
- ●Frost dates read at Tarsney Lakes's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tarsney Lakes's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tarsney Lakes
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tarsney Lakes, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tarsney Lakes averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tarsney Lakes — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tarsney Lakes average
How we know this about Tarsney Lakes
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 Tarsney Lakes’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 Tarsney Lakes
When does frost risk typically end in Tarsney Lakes?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tarsney Lakes typically lands around Mar 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Tarsney Lakes?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tarsney Lakes 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 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tarsney Lakes?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tarsney Lakes sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Oct 23, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tarsney Lakes?
The federal record around Tarsney Lakes is a meaningful one — 394 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (206), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 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 Tarsney Lakes?
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 Tarsney Lakes's scale — its 6b band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tarsney Lakes'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 Tarsney Lakes’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Tarsney Lakes's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 196 acres it covers and 394 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tarsney Lakes's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tarsney Lakes's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 6 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 394 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tarsney Lakes, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tarsney Lakes's boundary and the 196 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tarsney Lakes's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tarsney Lakes's 196 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jackson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jackson 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 Jackson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tarsney Lakes's 196 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tarsney Lakes you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 196 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Tarsney Lakes-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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