Lockland, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lockland, 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 Lockland 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 Lockland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Lockland — the short answer
Lockland, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 780 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
- 780 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 Lockland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lockland's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lockland
Each reading below is measured for Lockland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLockland 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
MeasuredLockland 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 Lockland is in
Lockland sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lockland's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hamilton County.
What Grows in Lockland
Every plant below cleared Lockland'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 Lockland?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Lockland
Spotted lanternfly documented 8 miles from Lockland, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lockland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lockland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LOCKLAND COLLISION CENTERBrownfields · 75 ft
- VACANT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- TMI ELECTRICAL SOLUTIONSBrownfields · 400 ft
- LOCKLAND CHURCH OF NAZARENEUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- VILLAGE OF LOCKLANDUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- PARTH GROCERS LLC DBA LOCKLAND MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- MICHEL TIRE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- CROMER BODY SHOP (ORPHAN)Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- JEFFERSON SMURFIT CORPORATIONToxics Release Inventory · 1200 ft
- JEFFERSON SMURFIT CORP.-LOCKLANDToxics Release Inventory · 1400 ft
- JEFFERSON SMURFIT CORP.Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- AMERICAN TISSUE SITESuperfund · 1600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lockland'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 Lockland.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lockland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lockland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lockland, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lockland — Toxics Release Inventory (363 sites) and Superfund (46 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 Lockland
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 Lockland
Everything above resolves to Lockland as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 780 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 Lockland Average
Lockland Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lockland
- ●One soil character for all of Lockland
- ●Frost dates read at Lockland's scale: Apr 1 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lockland's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lockland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lockland, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lockland averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lockland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lockland average
How we know this about Lockland
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 Lockland’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 Lockland
When does frost risk typically end in Lockland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lockland 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 Lockland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lockland 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 Lockland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lockland 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 Lockland?
The federal record around Lockland runs heavier than most — 3,243 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,690), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Lockland?
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 Lockland's scale — its 6b band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lockland'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 Lockland’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lockland's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 780 acres it covers and 3,243 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lockland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lockland's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 1 and Nov 8 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 3,243 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lockland, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lockland's boundary and the 780 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 Lockland's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Locklandlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lockland's 780 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 Lockland's 780 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lockland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 780 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Lockland-wide figureread your own land →
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