Johnson Lane, Nevada, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Johnson Lane, 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 Johnson Lane lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Johnson Lane — the short answer
Johnson Lane, Nevada: USDA zone 7b, about 158 days between hard freezes, across 14K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~158
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 14K 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 7b is Johnson Lane's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Johnson Lane's 158-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Johnson Lane
Each reading below is measured for Johnson Lane itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredJohnson Lane runs about 158 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
MeasuredJohnson Lane sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Johnson Lane is in
Johnson Lane sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at Johnson Lane's own centroid rather than borrowed from Douglas County.
What Grows in Johnson Lane
Every plant below cleared Johnson Lane's own zone 7b and its 158-day season. Each card opens that plant's Nevada profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Johnson Lane?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 11 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
What's on the federal record near Johnson Lane
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Johnson Lane. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Se Section 22 Shafts and AditsMining · 2200 ft
- 105 N14 E20 27DAAB1Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- 105 N14 E20 26CCBB1Nitrate · 1.4 mi
- 105 N14 E20 28ACDD1Nitrate · 1.4 mi
- 105 N14 E20 27DCCA1Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- 105 N14 E20 27DDDA1Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- 105 N14 E20 28DDAA1Nitrate · 1.5 mi
- 105 N14 E20 26CCDA1Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- 105 N14 E20 35BBBA1Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- 105 N14 E20 35BBBD1Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- 105 N14 E20 20DAA 1 Wetlands, Warm WellNitrate · 1.7 mi
- CROWN METALSBrownfields · 1.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Johnson Lane'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 Johnson Lane.
Total Sites
1,218
within ~10 miles of Johnson Lane
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
10 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Johnson Lane
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Johnson Lane
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Johnson Lane, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 718 sites within ~10 miles of Johnson Lane. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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).
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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 Johnson Lane
Everything above resolves to Johnson Lane as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 14K 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 Johnson Lane Average
Johnson Lane Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Johnson Lane
- ●One soil character for all of Johnson Lane
- ●Frost dates read at Johnson Lane's scale: May 6 to Oct 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Johnson Lane's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Johnson Lane
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Johnson Lane, Nevada — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Johnson Lane averages can't show:
We read public map data around Johnson Lane — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Johnson Lane
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 Johnson Lane’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 Johnson Lane
When does frost risk typically end in Johnson Lane?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Johnson Lane typically lands around May 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 May 27.
When is the first frost in Johnson Lane?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Johnson Lane typically arrives around Oct 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 27, so the watching starts about Sep 11 — about 158 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Johnson Lane?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Johnson Lane sees about 158 frost-free days — roughly May 6 through Oct 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 27 to Sep 27, about 123 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Johnson Lane?
The federal record around Johnson Lane runs heavier than most — 1,218 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (718), the nearest Mining record about 0.4 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Johnson Lane?
From about Sep 11 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Johnson Lane's scale — its 7b band and its 158-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Johnson Lane'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 Johnson Lane’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Johnson Lane's own scale — its own ~158-day season between 28°F freezes, the 13,998 acres it covers and 1,218 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Johnson Lane's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Johnson Lane's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 6 and Oct 11 and the ~158-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,218 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Johnson Lane, the closest Mining record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Johnson Lane's boundary and the 13,998 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~158-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Johnson Lane's own centroid, the Central Basin and RangeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Johnson Lane's 13,998 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Douglas County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Douglas County
- The growing challenges every Nevada grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Nevada
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Douglas County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Johnson Lane's 13,998 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Johnson Lane you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 13,998 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Mining record about 0.4 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 Johnson Lane-wide figureread your own land →
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