Groveport, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Groveport, 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 Groveport 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 Groveport — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Groveport — the short answer
Groveport, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 217 days between hard freezes, across 6K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~217
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 6K 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 Groveport's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Groveport's 217-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Groveport
Each reading below is measured for Groveport itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGroveport runs about 217 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
MeasuredGroveport 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 Groveport is in
Groveport sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Groveport's own centroid rather than borrowed from Franklin County.
What Grows in Groveport
Every plant below cleared Groveport's own zone 6b and its 217-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Groveport?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Groveport
Spotted lanternfly documented 10 miles from Groveport, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Groveport
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Groveport. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- S&S TRUCK AND BODY INCBrownfields · 1400 ft
- LIFELINE SHELTER SYSTEMSBrownfields · 1400 ft
- CERTIFIED OIL CO. #432Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- GROVEPORT PUBLIC WORKSBrownfields · 1600 ft
- CERTIFIED GAS STATION 432Brownfields · 1700 ft
- RIGINS PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- KROGER #861Brownfields · 2100 ft
- MARTIN AUTOBODYBrownfields · 2300 ft
- KROGER CO 861Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- KDC/ONE GROVEPORTToxics Release Inventory · 0.5 mi
- GROVEPORT PENNZOILUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #13865Brownfields · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Groveport'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 Groveport.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Groveport
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Groveport
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Groveport
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 Groveport average
Your land is one point inside Groveport
Everything above resolves to Groveport as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 6K 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 city 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 Groveport Average
Groveport Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Groveport
- ●One soil character for all of Groveport
- ●Frost dates read at Groveport's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Groveport's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Groveport
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Groveport, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Groveport averages can't show:
We read public map data around Groveport — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Groveport average
How we know this about Groveport
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Groveport’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Groveport
When does frost risk typically end in Groveport?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Groveport typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Groveport?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Groveport typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 217 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Groveport?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Groveport sees about 217 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 23, about 182 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Groveport?
The federal record around Groveport is a meaningful one — 1,824 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (812), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles 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 Groveport?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Groveport's scale — its 6b band and its 217-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Groveport'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 Groveport’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Groveport's own scale — its own ~217-day season between 28°F freezes, the 5,572 acres it covers and 1,824 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Groveport's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Groveport's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 6 and the ~217-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,824 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Groveport, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Groveport's boundary and the 5,572 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~217-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Groveport's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Groveportlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Groveport's 5,572 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Franklin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Franklin 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 Franklin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Groveport's 5,572 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Groveport you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 5,572 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Groveport-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioGroveport sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.
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