New Bloomington, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 New Bloomington, 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 New Bloomington 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 New Bloomington — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
No card required · your full report in seconds
New Bloomington — the short answer
New Bloomington, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 210 days between hard freezes, across 282 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 10
- 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
- ~210
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 282 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 New Bloomington's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Bloomington's 210-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Bloomington
Each reading below is measured for New Bloomington itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Bloomington runs about 210 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
MeasuredNew Bloomington 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 New Bloomington is in
New Bloomington sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Bloomington's own centroid rather than borrowed from Marion County.
What Grows in New Bloomington
Every plant below cleared New Bloomington's own zone 6a and its 210-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Bloomington?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 13; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 10 (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 New Bloomington
Survey cells within 31 miles of New Bloomington checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 43 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near New Bloomington
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Bloomington. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NEW BLOOMINGTON LANDMARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- COUNTRY FOLKS SERVICES-LARUEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- FORMER MARATHON STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- GTE NORTH, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- ELGIN WEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- CARMENS PLACEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- RIALTO FARMSUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION CORPORATIONBrownfields · 5.2 mi
- BIG ISLAND SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
- CONAGRA FOODSBrownfields · 5.3 mi
- ERIC FLEMING PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Bloomington'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 New Bloomington.
Total Sites
158
within ~10 miles of New Bloomington
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Bloomington
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Bloomington
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Bloomington, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of New Bloomington — Toxics Release Inventory (23 sites) and Superfund (4 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.
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 New Bloomington
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 New Bloomington average
Your land is one point inside New Bloomington
Everything above resolves to New Bloomington as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 282 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 New Bloomington Average
New Bloomington Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across New Bloomington
- ●One soil character for all of New Bloomington
- ●Frost dates read at New Bloomington's scale: Apr 10 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Bloomington's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in New Bloomington
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Bloomington, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Bloomington averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Bloomington — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Bloomington average
How we know this about New Bloomington
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 New Bloomington’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 New Bloomington
When does frost risk typically end in New Bloomington?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Bloomington typically lands around Apr 10, 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 1.
When is the first frost in New Bloomington?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Bloomington 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 210 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Bloomington?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Bloomington sees about 210 frost-free days — roughly Apr 10 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 1 to Oct 23, about 175 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Bloomington?
The federal record around New Bloomington is a meaningful one — 158 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (71), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 New Bloomington?
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 New Bloomington's scale — its 6a band and its 210-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Bloomington'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 New Bloomington’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at New Bloomington's own scale — its own ~210-day season between 28°F freezes, the 282 acres it covers and 158 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Bloomington's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Bloomington's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 10 and Nov 6 and the ~210-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 158 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Bloomington, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Bloomington's boundary and the 282 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~210-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Bloomington's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around New Bloomington checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Bloomington's 282 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Marion County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Marion 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 Marion County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Bloomington's 282 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Bloomington you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 282 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 New Bloomington-wide figureread your own land →
More in Ohio
Wider growing context
What grows across OhioNew Bloomington sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.
Nearby growing guides