Marshallville, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Marshallville, 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 Marshallville 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 Marshallville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Marshallville — the short answer
Marshallville, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 206 days between hard freezes, across 378 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~206
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 378 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 Marshallville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Marshallville's 206-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Marshallville
Each reading below is measured for Marshallville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMarshallville runs about 206 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
MeasuredMarshallville 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 Marshallville is in
Marshallville sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Marshallville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Wayne County.
What Grows in Marshallville
Every plant below cleared Marshallville's own zone 6a and its 206-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Marshallville?
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 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 12 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — 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 Marshallville
Spotted lanternfly documented 19 miles from Marshallville, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Marshallville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Marshallville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MARSHALLVILLE MILLUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- CIRCLE K #5587Brownfields · 2.4 mi
- CIRCLE K #5587Underground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- J & J AUTO WRECKING, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- J & J AUTO WRECKINGBrownfields · 2.5 mi
- BEKAERT CORPORATION (0285010331)Toxics Release Inventory · 2.7 mi
- BEKAERT CORPORATION (0285010331)Brownfields · 2.7 mi
- REFCOTEC INCBrownfields · 2.7 mi
- REFCOTEC INCToxics Release Inventory · 2.7 mi
- MORTON COATINGS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- LAND O LAKES PURINA FEED LLCToxics Release Inventory · 2.8 mi
- NUCOR BRIGHT BAR ORRVILLEToxics Release Inventory · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Marshallville'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 Marshallville.
Total Sites
462
within ~10 miles of Marshallville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Marshallville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Marshallville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Marshallville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Marshallville — Toxics Release Inventory (68 sites) and PFAS (4 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.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Marshallville
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 Marshallville average
Your land is one point inside Marshallville
Everything above resolves to Marshallville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 378 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 Marshallville Average
Marshallville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Marshallville
- ●One soil character for all of Marshallville
- ●Frost dates read at Marshallville's scale: Apr 12 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Marshallville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Marshallville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Marshallville, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Marshallville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Marshallville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Marshallville average
How we know this about Marshallville
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 Marshallville’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 Marshallville
When does frost risk typically end in Marshallville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Marshallville typically lands around Apr 12, 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 3.
When is the first frost in Marshallville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Marshallville typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 206 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Marshallville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Marshallville sees about 206 frost-free days — roughly Apr 12 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 3 to Oct 21, about 171 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Marshallville?
The federal record around Marshallville is a meaningful one — 462 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (219), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Marshallville?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Marshallville's scale — its 6a band and its 206-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Marshallville'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 Marshallville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Marshallville's own scale — its own ~206-day season between 28°F freezes, the 378 acres it covers and 462 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Marshallville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Marshallville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 12 and Nov 4 and the ~206-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 462 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Marshallville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Marshallville's boundary and the 378 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~206-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Marshallville's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Marshallvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Marshallville's 378 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Wayne County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Wayne 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 Wayne County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Marshallville's 378 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Marshallville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 378 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Marshallville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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