Green Springs, 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 Green Springs, 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 Green Springs 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 Green Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Green Springs — the short answer
Green Springs, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 203 days between hard freezes, across 742 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~203
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 742 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 Green Springs's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Green Springs's 203-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Green Springs
Each reading below is measured for Green Springs itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGreen Springs runs about 203 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
MeasuredGreen Springs 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 Green Springs is in
Green Springs sits in the Huron/Erie Lake Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Green Springs's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sandusky County.
What Grows in Green Springs
Every plant below cleared Green Springs's own zone 6a and its 203-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Green Springs?
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 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 3 — 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.
Documented around Green Springs
Spotted lanternfly documented 22 miles from Green Springs, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Green Springs
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Green Springs. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GREEN SPRINGS COMMUNITY MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- HORN'S CROP SERVICE CENTER INCToxics Release Inventory · 850 ft
- MILLER PIPELINE CORP.Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- MYERS CONSTRUCTIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- VILLA MARIA SKILLED NURSING HOME *Brownfields · 1800 ft
- CLYDE-GREEN SPRINGS VILLAGE SCHOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- KENNETH G MYERS CONSTRUCTIONBrownfields · 1900 ft
- GREEN SPRINGS ENERGYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- LIQUID AIR CORP.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- SHAW ROAD DRUMSSuperfund · 1.5 mi
- ODNR QUILTER CCC CAMPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- CHURCH AND DWIGHT CO INCBrownfields · 3.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Green Springs'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 Green Springs.
Total Sites
309
within ~10 miles of Green Springs
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
9 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Green Springs
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Green Springs
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Green Springs, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Green Springs — Superfund (9 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (27 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Green Springs
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 Green Springs average
Your land is one point inside Green Springs
Everything above resolves to Green Springs as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 742 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 Green Springs Average
Green Springs Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Green Springs
- ●One soil character for all of Green Springs
- ●Frost dates read at Green Springs's scale: Apr 14 to Nov 3
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Green Springs's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Green Springs
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Green Springs, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Green Springs averages can't show:
We read public map data around Green Springs — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Green Springs average
How we know this about Green Springs
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 Green Springs’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 Green Springs
When does frost risk typically end in Green Springs?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Green Springs typically lands around Apr 14, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Green Springs?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Green Springs typically arrives around Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 20, so the watching starts about Oct 4 — about 203 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Green Springs?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Green Springs sees about 203 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Nov 3, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 20, about 168 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Green Springs?
The federal record around Green Springs is a meaningful one — 309 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (134), 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 Green Springs?
From about Oct 4 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 3 (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 3. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Green Springs's scale — its 6a band and its 203-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Green Springs'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 Green Springs’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Green Springs's own scale — its own ~203-day season between 28°F freezes, the 742 acres it covers and 309 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Green Springs's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Green Springs's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Nov 3 and the ~203-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 309 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Green Springs, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Green Springs's boundary and the 742 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~203-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Green Springs's own centroid, the Huron/Erie Lake PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Green Springslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Green Springs's 742 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sandusky County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sandusky 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 Sandusky County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Green Springs's 742 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Green Springs you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 742 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 Green Springs-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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