Bon Aqua Junction, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Bon Aqua Junction, 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 Bon Aqua Junction lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bon Aqua Junction — the short answer
Bon Aqua Junction, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 233 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 12
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~233
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 7b is Bon Aqua Junction's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bon Aqua Junction's 233-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bon Aqua Junction
Each reading below is measured for Bon Aqua Junction itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBon Aqua Junction runs about 233 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
MeasuredBon Aqua Junction sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Bon Aqua Junction is in
Bon Aqua Junction sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bon Aqua Junction's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hickman County.
What Grows in Bon Aqua Junction
Every plant below cleared Bon Aqua Junction's own zone 7b and its 233-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bon Aqua Junction?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 12 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Bon Aqua Junction
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bon Aqua Junction. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- East Food MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Tommy Market And Tire CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Thomasson S/sUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Shree Jay Brahmani, Inc.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- 6270 Twice DailyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Hudgins MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Epps Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Elta StoneUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Parker GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- Patton Park Market, LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Douglas Tidwell S SUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- WRIGLEY CHARCOAL PLANTSuperfund · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bon Aqua Junction'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 Bon Aqua Junction.
Total Sites
115
within ~10 miles of Bon Aqua Junction
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bon Aqua Junction
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bon Aqua Junction
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bon Aqua Junction, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Bon Aqua Junction — Toxics Release Inventory (16 sites) and Superfund (3 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).
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Your land is one point inside Bon Aqua Junction
Everything above resolves to Bon Aqua Junction as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Bon Aqua Junction Average
Bon Aqua Junction Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Bon Aqua Junction
- ●One soil character for all of Bon Aqua Junction
- ●Frost dates read at Bon Aqua Junction's scale: Mar 24 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bon Aqua Junction's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bon Aqua Junction
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bon Aqua Junction, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bon Aqua Junction averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bon Aqua Junction — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Bon Aqua Junction
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 Bon Aqua Junction’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 Bon Aqua Junction
When does frost risk typically end in Bon Aqua Junction?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bon Aqua Junction typically lands around Mar 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Bon Aqua Junction?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bon Aqua Junction typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 233 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bon Aqua Junction?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bon Aqua Junction sees about 233 frost-free days — roughly Mar 24 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 14 to Oct 29, about 198 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bon Aqua Junction?
The federal record around Bon Aqua Junction is a meaningful one — 115 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (65), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Bon Aqua Junction?
From about Oct 13 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bon Aqua Junction's scale — its 7b band and its 233-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bon Aqua Junction'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 Bon Aqua Junction’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Bon Aqua Junction's own scale — its own ~233-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,014 acres it covers and 115 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bon Aqua Junction's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bon Aqua Junction's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 24 and Nov 12 and the ~233-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 115 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bon Aqua Junction, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bon Aqua Junction's boundary and the 3,014 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~233-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bon Aqua Junction's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bon Aqua Junction's 3,014 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hickman County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hickman County
- The growing challenges every Tennessee grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Tennessee
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Hickman County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bon Aqua Junction's 3,014 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bon Aqua Junction you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,014 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 Bon Aqua Junction-wide figureread your own land →
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