Mitiwanga, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Mitiwanga, 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 Mitiwanga 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 Mitiwanga — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Mitiwanga — the short answer
Mitiwanga, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 232 days between hard freezes, across 271 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~232
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 271 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 Mitiwanga's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mitiwanga's 232-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mitiwanga
Each reading below is measured for Mitiwanga itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMitiwanga runs about 232 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
MeasuredMitiwanga 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 Mitiwanga is in
Mitiwanga sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Mitiwanga's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Erie County is mostly Huron/Erie Lake Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Mitiwanga
Every plant below cleared Mitiwanga's own zone 6b and its 232-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mitiwanga?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 18 — 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 Mitiwanga
Spotted lanternfly documented 12 miles from Mitiwanga, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Mitiwanga
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mitiwanga. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- OHIO DIVISION OF WILDLIFE OWC NERRBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- VERMILION TWP. GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- AUTOGATE INCBrownfields · 2.4 mi
- NICK'S TAVERNUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- ERIE COUNTY BRIDGE F-307Brownfields · 2.9 mi
- AT&TUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- GILOTA INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- FORMER GASOLINE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- BP OIL CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- PPG ARCHITECTURAL FINISHES, INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 4.1 mi
- PPG ARCHITECTURAL FINISHES, INC.Brownfields · 4.1 mi
- AKZO NOBEL COATINGS INC.Brownfields · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mitiwanga'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 Mitiwanga.
Total Sites
238
within ~10 miles of Mitiwanga
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mitiwanga
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mitiwanga
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mitiwanga, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Mitiwanga — Toxics Release Inventory (19 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (153 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Mitiwanga
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 Mitiwanga average
Your land is one point inside Mitiwanga
Everything above resolves to Mitiwanga as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 271 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 Mitiwanga Average
Mitiwanga Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Mitiwanga
- ●One soil character for all of Mitiwanga
- ●Frost dates read at Mitiwanga's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mitiwanga's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mitiwanga
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mitiwanga, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mitiwanga averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mitiwanga — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mitiwanga average
How we know this about Mitiwanga
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 Mitiwanga’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 Mitiwanga
When does frost risk typically end in Mitiwanga?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mitiwanga typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Mitiwanga?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mitiwanga typically arrives around Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 4, so the watching starts about Oct 19 — about 232 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mitiwanga?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mitiwanga sees about 232 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Nov 4, about 197 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mitiwanga?
The federal record around Mitiwanga is a meaningful one — 238 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (153), the nearest Brownfields record about 2.3 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 Mitiwanga?
From about Oct 19 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mitiwanga's scale — its 6b band and its 232-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mitiwanga'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 Mitiwanga’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Mitiwanga's own scale — its own ~232-day season between 28°F freezes, the 271 acres it covers and 238 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mitiwanga's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mitiwanga's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 18 and the ~232-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 238 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mitiwanga, the closest Brownfields record about 2.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mitiwanga's boundary and the 271 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~232-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Mitiwanga sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Mitiwangalydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mitiwanga's 271 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Erie County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Erie 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 Erie County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mitiwanga's 271 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mitiwanga you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 271 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 2.3 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 Mitiwanga-wide figureread your own land →
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