Elmwood Place, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Elmwood Place, 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 Elmwood Place 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 Elmwood Place — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Elmwood Place — the short answer
Elmwood Place, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 223 days between hard freezes, across 207 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~223
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 207 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 6b is Elmwood Place's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Elmwood Place's 223-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Elmwood Place
Each reading below is measured for Elmwood Place itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredElmwood Place runs about 223 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
MeasuredElmwood Place sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Elmwood Place is in
Elmwood Place sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Elmwood Place's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hamilton County.
What Grows in Elmwood Place
Every plant below cleared Elmwood Place's own zone 6b and its 223-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Elmwood Place?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Elmwood Place
Spotted lanternfly documented 5 miles from Elmwood Place, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Elmwood Place
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Elmwood Place. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- VINE STREET MERCURY SPILLSuperfund · 150 ft
- XTEK INC PLANT #1Brownfields · 650 ft
- XTEK INC PLANT #1Toxics Release Inventory · 650 ft
- UNITED DAIRY FARMERS #154Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- ELMWOOD BUILDINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- #3 VINE ST MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- REH COToxics Release Inventory · 2000 ft
- PMC SPECIALTIES GROUP INCToxics Release Inventory · 2000 ft
- PMC SPECIALTIES GROUP INCBrownfields · 2000 ft
- ESTE AVENUE DUMPSuperfund · 2000 ft
- EPCOR FOUNDRIES PLANT 2Toxics Release Inventory · 2000 ft
- SPRINGLAWN INC OF OHIO CARTHAGE MILLBrownfields · 2000 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Elmwood Place'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 Elmwood Place.
Total Sites
3,248
within ~10 miles of Elmwood Place
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
49 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Elmwood Place
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Elmwood Place
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Elmwood Place, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Elmwood Place — Toxics Release Inventory (339 sites) and Superfund (49 sites). 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.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Elmwood Place
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 Elmwood Place average
Your land is one point inside Elmwood Place
Everything above resolves to Elmwood Place as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 207 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 Elmwood Place Average
Elmwood Place Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Elmwood Place
- ●One soil character for all of Elmwood Place
- ●Frost dates read at Elmwood Place's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Elmwood Place's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Elmwood Place
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Elmwood Place, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Elmwood Place averages can't show:
We read public map data around Elmwood Place — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Elmwood Place average
How we know this about Elmwood Place
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 Elmwood Place’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 Elmwood Place
When does frost risk typically end in Elmwood Place?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Elmwood Place typically lands around Apr 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Elmwood Place?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Elmwood Place typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 223 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Elmwood Place?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Elmwood Place sees about 223 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 27, about 188 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Elmwood Place?
The federal record around Elmwood Place is a meaningful one — 3,248 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,785), the nearest Superfund 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 Elmwood Place?
From about Oct 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 Nov 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Elmwood Place's scale — its 6b band and its 223-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Elmwood Place'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 Elmwood Place’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Elmwood Place's own scale — its own ~223-day season between 28°F freezes, the 207 acres it covers and 3,248 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Elmwood Place's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Elmwood Place's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 10 and the ~223-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 3,248 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Elmwood Place, the closest Superfund record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Elmwood Place's boundary and the 207 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~223-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Elmwood Place's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Elmwood Placelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Elmwood Place's 207 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hamilton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hamilton 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 Hamilton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Elmwood Place's 207 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Elmwood Place you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 207 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund 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 Elmwood Place-wide figureread your own land →
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