Nellie, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Nellie, 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 Nellie lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Nellie — the short answer
Nellie, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 199 days between hard freezes, across 436 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~199
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 436 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 Nellie's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Nellie's 199-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Nellie
Each reading below is measured for Nellie itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNellie runs about 199 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredNellie 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 Nellie is in
Nellie sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Nellie's own centroid rather than borrowed from Coshocton County.
What Grows in Nellie
Every plant below cleared Nellie's own zone 6a and its 199-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Nellie?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 29 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Nellie
Spotted lanternfly documented 25 miles from Nellie, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Nellie
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Nellie. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WARSAW TRANSPORTATION INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- KWIK FILLBrownfields · 1600 ft
- OTTO ORA PIZZAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- BLUE GOOSE CARRYOUTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- WARSAW ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS - MOHAWK DAMBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- SUNNY SLOPE GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- AT&TUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- RUSSELL'S AUTO CENTERBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- GREGORY HELMSBrownfields · 3.6 mi
- SHOPWISE FOODSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- WALHONDING SAND & GRAVEL COBrownfields · 4.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Nellie'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 Nellie.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Nellie
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Nellie, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 17 sites within ~10 miles of Nellie. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Nellie
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 Nellie
Everything above resolves to Nellie as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 436 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 Nellie Average
Nellie Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Nellie
- ●One soil character for all of Nellie
- ●Frost dates read at Nellie's scale: Apr 13 to Oct 29
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Nellie's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Nellie
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Nellie, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Nellie averages can't show:
We read public map data around Nellie — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Nellie average
How we know this about Nellie
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 Nellie’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 Nellie
When does frost risk typically end in Nellie?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Nellie typically lands around Apr 13, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Nellie?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Nellie typically arrives around Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 15, so the watching starts about Sep 29 — about 199 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Nellie?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Nellie sees about 199 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Oct 29, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 15, about 164 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Nellie?
The federal record around Nellie is light — 27 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (17), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Nellie?
From about Sep 29 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 Oct 29 (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 Oct 29. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Nellie's scale — its 6a band and its 199-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Nellie'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 Nellie’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Nellie's own scale — its own ~199-day season between 28°F freezes, the 436 acres it covers and 27 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Nellie's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Nellie's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Oct 29 and the ~199-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 27 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Nellie, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Nellie's boundary and the 436 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~199-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Nellie's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Nellielydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Nellie's 436 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Coshocton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Coshocton 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 Coshocton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Nellie's 436 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Nellie you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 436 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Nellie-wide figureread your own land →
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