Saronville, Nebraska, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Saronville, 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 Saronville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Saronville — the short answer
Saronville, Nebraska: USDA zone 6a, about 195 days between hard freezes, across 95 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~195
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 95 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 Saronville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Saronville's 195-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Saronville
Each reading below is measured for Saronville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSaronville runs about 195 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
MeasuredSaronville 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 Saronville is in
Saronville sits in the Central Great Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Saronville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clay County.
What Grows in Saronville
Every plant below cleared Saronville's own zone 6a and its 195-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nebraska profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Saronville?
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 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 22 — 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 Saronville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Saronville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SUTTON WAREHOUSEBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- 7N 5W15CA 1Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- 8N 5W18CA 1Nitrate · 4.0 mi
- 7N 5W21CDAD1Nitrate · 4.1 mi
- MID-NEBRASKA LUBRICANTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- GEORGEs 66 SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- BGs CORNERUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- CENTRAL NE WOOD PRESERVERS INCBrownfields · 4.8 mi
- CENTRAL NEBRASKA WOOD PRESERVE RSToxics Release Inventory · 4.8 mi
- 7N 5W26BB 2Nitrate · 5.4 mi
- 7N 5W34BB 1Nitrate · 5.5 mi
- GREAT PLAINS PETROLEUM INC BULKUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Saronville'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 Saronville.
Total Sites
46
within ~10 miles of Saronville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Saronville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Saronville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Saronville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 26 sites within ~10 miles of Saronville. 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 Saronville
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 Saronville
Everything above resolves to Saronville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 95 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 Saronville Average
Saronville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Saronville
- ●One soil character for all of Saronville
- ●Frost dates read at Saronville's scale: Apr 10 to Oct 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Saronville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Saronville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Saronville, Nebraska — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Saronville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Saronville
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 Saronville’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 Saronville
When does frost risk typically end in Saronville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Saronville typically lands around Apr 10, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Saronville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Saronville typically arrives around Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 8, so the watching starts about Sep 22 — about 195 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Saronville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Saronville sees about 195 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 8, about 160 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Saronville?
The federal record around Saronville is a meaningful one — 46 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (26), the nearest Brownfields record about 3.6 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 Saronville?
From about Sep 22 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Saronville's scale — its 6a band and its 195-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Saronville'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 Saronville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Saronville's own scale — its own ~195-day season between 28°F freezes, the 95 acres it covers and 46 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Saronville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Saronville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Oct 22 and the ~195-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 46 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Saronville, the closest Brownfields record about 3.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Saronville's boundary and the 95 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~195-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Saronville's own centroid, the Central Great PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Saronville's 95 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clay County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clay 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 Clay County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Saronville's 95 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Saronville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 95 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 3.6 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 Saronville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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