Deshler, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Deshler, 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 Deshler lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Deshler — the short answer
Deshler, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 205 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- 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
- ~205
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Deshler's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Deshler's 205-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Deshler
Each reading below is measured for Deshler itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDeshler runs about 205 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
MeasuredDeshler 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 Deshler is in
Deshler sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Deshler's own centroid rather than borrowed from Henry County.
What Grows in Deshler
Every plant below cleared Deshler's own zone 6a and its 205-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Deshler?
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 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (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. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Deshler
Spotted lanternfly documented 26 miles from Deshler, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Deshler
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Deshler. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GARCHA REALTY LPUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- SOY INVESTORS LLCBrownfields · 550 ft
- METAL FORGE CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- STORAGE FACILITY FOR 278 ENTERPRISESUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- METAL FORGE COBrownfields · 850 ft
- METAL FORGE COToxics Release Inventory · 850 ft
- 10-K KORNER MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #8432Brownfields · 1000 ft
- CSX TRANSPORTATION INCBrownfields · 1300 ft
- CLAUDE SINTZ INCBrownfields · 1800 ft
- VOGEL & SON #350042Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- REITER'S GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Deshler'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 Deshler.
Total Sites
83
within ~10 miles of Deshler
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Deshler
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Deshler
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Deshler, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 6 sites within ~10 miles of Deshler. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Deshler
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 Deshler average
Your land is one point inside Deshler
Everything above resolves to Deshler as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Deshler Average
Deshler Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Deshler
- ●One soil character for all of Deshler
- ●Frost dates read at Deshler's scale: Apr 11 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Deshler's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Deshler
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Deshler, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Deshler averages can't show:
We read public map data around Deshler — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Deshler average
How we know this about Deshler
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 Deshler’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 Deshler
When does frost risk typically end in Deshler?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Deshler typically lands around Apr 11, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Deshler?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Deshler 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 205 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Deshler?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Deshler sees about 205 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 19, about 170 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Deshler?
The federal record around Deshler is a meaningful one — 83 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (39), 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 Deshler?
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 Deshler's scale — its 6a band and its 205-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Deshler'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 Deshler’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Deshler's own scale — its own ~205-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,467 acres it covers and 83 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Deshler's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Deshler's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Nov 2 and the ~205-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 83 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Deshler, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Deshler's boundary and the 1,467 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~205-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Deshler's own centroid, the Huron/Erie Lake PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Deshlerlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Deshler's 1,467 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Henry County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Henry County
- The growing challenges every Ohio grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Ohio
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Henry County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Deshler's 1,467 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Deshler you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,467 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 Deshler-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioDeshler sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.