Shubert, Nebraska, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Shubert, 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 Shubert 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 Shubert — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Shubert — the short answer
Shubert, Nebraska: USDA zone 6a, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 134 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 134 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 Shubert's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Shubert's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Shubert
Each reading below is measured for Shubert itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredShubert runs about 201 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
MeasuredShubert 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 Shubert is in
Shubert sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Shubert's own centroid rather than borrowed from Richardson County.
What Grows in Shubert
Every plant below cleared Shubert's own zone 6a and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nebraska profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Shubert?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Shubert
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Shubert. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LANDON ALEXANDERUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- DENNIS LOCKARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- VICES STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- E & S ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
- LETHA CHAPINUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.1 mi
- 4N 14E34BA 1Nitrate · 8.4 mi
- T63N R41W 22BBB1Nitrate · 8.7 mi
- NPPD COOPER NUCLEAR STATIONBrownfields · 8.9 mi
- 4N 14E 15DD (N-6)Nitrate · 8.9 mi
- MAGELLAN PIPELINE COMPANY LPBrownfields · 9.1 mi
- 3N 17E28CC 1Nitrate · 9.3 mi
- FORMER SHERMAN GRAINSuperfund · 9.3 mi
2 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Shubert'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 Shubert.
Total Sites
19
within ~10 miles of Shubert
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Shubert
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Shubert
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Shubert
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 Shubert average
Your land is one point inside Shubert
Everything above resolves to Shubert as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 134 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 Shubert Average
Shubert Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Shubert
- ●One soil character for all of Shubert
- ●Frost dates read at Shubert's scale: Apr 6 to Oct 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Shubert's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Shubert
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Shubert, Nebraska — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Shubert — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Shubert average
How we know this about Shubert
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 Shubert’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 Shubert
When does frost risk typically end in Shubert?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Shubert typically lands around Apr 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Shubert?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Shubert typically arrives around Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 10, so the watching starts about Sep 24 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Shubert?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Shubert sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 6 through Oct 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 27 to Oct 10, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Shubert?
The federal record around Shubert is a meaningful one — 19 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (10), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Shubert?
From about Sep 24 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 24 (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 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Shubert's scale — its 6a band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Shubert'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 Shubert’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Shubert's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 134 acres it covers and 19 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Shubert's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Shubert's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 6 and Oct 24 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 19 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Shubert, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Shubert's boundary and the 134 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Shubert's own centroid, the Western Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Shubert's 134 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Richardson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Richardson 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 Richardson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Shubert's 134 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Shubert you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 134 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Shubert-wide figureread your own land →