Tina, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Tina, 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 Tina lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Tina — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Tina — the short answer
Tina, Missouri: USDA zone 6a, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 205 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 205 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 Tina's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tina's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tina
Each reading below is measured for Tina itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTina runs about 215 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
MeasuredTina 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 Tina is in
Tina sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Tina's own centroid rather than borrowed from Carroll County.
What Grows in Tina
Every plant below cleared Tina's own zone 6a and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tina?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — 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 Tina
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tina. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TINA OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- T55N R23W 35CAD1Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- TINA, MO STOCKPILEToxics Release Inventory · 1.7 mi
- TINA REPEATER STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- T55N R23W 15ABC1Nitrate · 3.4 mi
- UNITED HOG SYSTEMS/Z4-BOSWORTH SEWCAFO · 4.4 mi
- T55N R24W 24DCC1Nitrate · 5.5 mi
- BOSWORTH MAINT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- T54N R22W 12ACD1Nitrate · 6.9 mi
- BIRCH 66 SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.0 mi
- R STORE LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.0 mi
- HAROLD BAGGS TRUCK LINEUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tina'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 Tina.
Total Sites
35
within ~10 miles of Tina
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tina
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tina
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tina, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 22 sites within ~10 miles of Tina. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Tina
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 Tina average
Your land is one point inside Tina
Everything above resolves to Tina as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 205 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 Tina Average
Tina Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Tina
- ●One soil character for all of Tina
- ●Frost dates read at Tina's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tina's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tina
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tina, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tina averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tina — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tina average
How we know this about Tina
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 Tina’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 Tina
When does frost risk typically end in Tina?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tina typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Tina?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tina typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tina?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tina sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 19, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tina?
The federal record around Tina is light — 35 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (22), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Tina?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tina's scale — its 6a band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tina'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 Tina’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Tina's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 205 acres it covers and 35 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tina's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tina's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 2 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 35 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tina, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tina's boundary and the 205 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tina's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tina's 205 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Carroll County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Carroll 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 Carroll County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tina's 205 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tina you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 205 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Tina-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MissouriTina sits outside our named growing regions, so Missouri as a whole is its closest context here.
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