Lemoyne, Nebraska, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Growers here do well with cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Lemoyne, 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 Lemoyne 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 Lemoyne — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lemoyne — the short answer
Lemoyne, Nebraska: USDA zone 5b, about 183 days between hard freezes, across 326 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~183
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 326 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 5b is Lemoyne's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lemoyne's 183-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lemoyne
Each reading below is measured for Lemoyne itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLemoyne runs about 183 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredLemoyne sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Lemoyne is in
Lemoyne sits in the Nebraska Sand Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Lemoyne's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Keith County is mostly High Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Lemoyne
Every plant below cleared Lemoyne's own zone 5b and its 183-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nebraska profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lemoyne?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 20 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
What's on the federal record near Lemoyne
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lemoyne. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ADMIRALs COVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- VOGLs LODGE & LUREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- NORTH SHORE LODGE GATE 5Underground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- VANS LAKEVIEW FISHING CAMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- STETSONS CORNER STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
- JC CEDARVIEWUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.8 mi
- Js OTTER CREEK MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.8 mi
- KINGSLEY LODGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.8 mi
- 15N 38W23DAAA1Nitrate · 9.4 mi
Measured from Lemoyne'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 Lemoyne.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lemoyne
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Lemoyne
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 Lemoyne average
Your land is one point inside Lemoyne
Everything above resolves to Lemoyne as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 326 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 Lemoyne Average
Lemoyne Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Lemoyne
- ●One soil character for all of Lemoyne
- ●Frost dates read at Lemoyne's scale: Apr 20 to Oct 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lemoyne's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lemoyne
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lemoyne, Nebraska — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lemoyne averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lemoyne — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lemoyne average
How we know this about Lemoyne
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 Lemoyne’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 Lemoyne
When does frost risk typically end in Lemoyne?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lemoyne typically lands around Apr 20, 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 May 11.
When is the first frost in Lemoyne?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lemoyne typically arrives around Oct 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 6, so the watching starts about Sep 20 — about 183 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lemoyne?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lemoyne sees about 183 frost-free days — roughly Apr 20 through Oct 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 11 to Oct 6, about 148 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lemoyne?
The federal record around Lemoyne is light — 10 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (8), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Lemoyne?
From about Sep 20 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lemoyne's scale — its 5b band and its 183-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lemoyne'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 Lemoyne’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lemoyne's own scale — its own ~183-day season between 28°F freezes, the 326 acres it covers and 10 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lemoyne's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lemoyne's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 20 and Oct 20 and the ~183-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 10 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lemoyne, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lemoyne's boundary and the 326 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~183-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Lemoyne sits in the Nebraska Sand Hills — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lemoyne's 326 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Keith County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Keith County
- The growing challenges every Nebraska grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Nebraska
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Keith County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lemoyne's 326 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lemoyne you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 326 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 Lemoyne-wide figureread your own land →
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