Lakewood Park, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lakewood Park, 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 Lakewood Park lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lakewood Park — the short answer
Lakewood Park, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 229 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~229
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 Lakewood Park's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lakewood Park's 229-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lakewood Park
Each reading below is measured for Lakewood Park itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLakewood Park runs about 229 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
MeasuredLakewood Park 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 Lakewood Park is in
Lakewood Park sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lakewood Park's own centroid rather than borrowed from Coffee County.
What Grows in Lakewood Park
Every plant below cleared Lakewood Park's own zone 7b and its 229-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lakewood Park?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Lakewood Park
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lakewood Park. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Ben's Lakewood MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Cf:M-21 (EHR-LUS3)Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- Midway MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- Marathon MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- Red BarnUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- Five Points MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- Bradyville MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
- Ms. Brown's Country Store and KitchenUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- Phelps GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- Cf:J-32 (EHR-LUS1)Nitrate · 6.0 mi
- Beechgrove GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- Cn:B-029Nitrate · 6.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lakewood Park'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 Lakewood Park.
Total Sites
42
within ~10 miles of Lakewood Park
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lakewood Park
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lakewood Park
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lakewood Park, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 14 sites within ~10 miles of Lakewood Park. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Lakewood Park
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 Lakewood Park average
Your land is one point inside Lakewood Park
Everything above resolves to Lakewood Park as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Lakewood Park Average
Lakewood Park Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Lakewood Park
- ●One soil character for all of Lakewood Park
- ●Frost dates read at Lakewood Park's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lakewood Park's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lakewood Park
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lakewood Park, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lakewood Park averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lakewood Park — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lakewood Park average
How we know this about Lakewood Park
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 Lakewood Park’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 Lakewood Park
When does frost risk typically end in Lakewood Park?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lakewood Park typically lands around Mar 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Lakewood Park?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lakewood Park typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 229 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lakewood Park?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lakewood Park sees about 229 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Oct 24, about 194 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lakewood Park?
The federal record around Lakewood Park is light — 42 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (25), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Lakewood Park?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lakewood Park's scale — its 7b band and its 229-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lakewood Park'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 Lakewood Park’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Lakewood Park's own scale — its own ~229-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,674 acres it covers and 42 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lakewood Park's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lakewood Park's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 7 and the ~229-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 42 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lakewood Park, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lakewood Park's boundary and the 3,674 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~229-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lakewood Park's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lakewood Park's 3,674 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Coffee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Coffee 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 Coffee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lakewood Park's 3,674 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lakewood Park you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,674 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Lakewood Park-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across TennesseeLakewood Park sits outside our named growing regions, so Tennessee as a whole is its closest context here.
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