Golf Manor, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Golf Manor, 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 Golf Manor 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 Golf Manor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Golf Manor — the short answer
Golf Manor, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 371 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 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 371 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 Golf Manor's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Golf Manor's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Golf Manor
Each reading below is measured for Golf Manor itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGolf Manor runs about 221 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
MeasuredGolf Manor 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 Golf Manor is in
Golf Manor sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Golf Manor's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hamilton County.
What Grows in Golf Manor
Every plant below cleared Golf Manor's own zone 6b and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Golf Manor?
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 8 — 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 Golf Manor
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Golf Manor, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Golf Manor
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Golf Manor. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- VALVOLINE INSTANT OIL CHANGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- VALVOLINE INSTANT OIL CHANGEBrownfields · 1500 ft
- IMPERIAL ADHESIVES INCToxics Release Inventory · 1500 ft
- STAMPING INC-FUSITE DIVISIONToxics Release Inventory · 1600 ft
- IMPERIAL ADHESIVES, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- KALB'S AUTO BODYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- UNITED DAIRY FARMERS #010Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- GOLF MANOR DRYCLEANINGBrownfields · 1900 ft
- DONCO RECYCLING SOLUTIONS - OHIO PULP MILLToxics Release Inventory · 2100 ft
- CINCINNATI ARMATURE WORKS INCBrownfields · 2100 ft
- TOM'S SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- ASHLAND CHEMICAL CO *Brownfields · 2300 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Golf Manor'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 Golf Manor.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Golf Manor
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Golf Manor
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Golf Manor, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Golf Manor — Toxics Release Inventory (338 sites) and Superfund (49 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Golf Manor
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 Golf Manor
Everything above resolves to Golf Manor as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 371 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 Golf Manor Average
Golf Manor Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Golf Manor
- ●One soil character for all of Golf Manor
- ●Frost dates read at Golf Manor's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Golf Manor's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Golf Manor
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Golf Manor, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Golf Manor averages can't show:
We read public map data around Golf Manor — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Golf Manor average
How we know this about Golf Manor
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 Golf Manor’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 Golf Manor
When does frost risk typically end in Golf Manor?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Golf Manor 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 Golf Manor?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Golf Manor typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Golf Manor?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Golf Manor sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Apr 1 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 22 to Oct 25, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Golf Manor?
The federal record around Golf Manor runs heavier than most — 3,289 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,818), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Golf Manor?
From about Oct 9 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Golf Manor's scale — its 6b band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Golf Manor'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 Golf Manor’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Golf Manor's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 371 acres it covers and 3,289 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Golf Manor's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Golf Manor's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 8 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 3,289 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Golf Manor, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Golf Manor's boundary and the 371 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Golf Manor's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Golf Manorlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Golf Manor's 371 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 Golf Manor's 371 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Golf Manor you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 371 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Golf Manor-wide figureread your own land →
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