Mitchellville, 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 Mitchellville, 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 Mitchellville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mitchellville — the short answer
Mitchellville, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 235 days between hard freezes, across 344 acres of city.
- 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 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~235
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 344 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 Mitchellville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mitchellville's 235-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mitchellville
Each reading below is measured for Mitchellville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMitchellville runs about 235 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
MeasuredMitchellville 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 Mitchellville is in
Mitchellville sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Mitchellville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sumner County.
What Grows in Mitchellville
Every plant below cleared Mitchellville's own zone 7b and its 235-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mitchellville?
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 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 13 — 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 Mitchellville
Spotted lanternfly documented 29 miles from Mitchellville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Mitchellville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mitchellville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- K13B0007Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- Truck It IncorporationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Averys PlaceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- K13B0008Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- Jackpot MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- MIDWESTERN GAS TRANSMISSION, STATION 2101Brownfields · 1.5 mi
- DEPOR INDUSTRIES, INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 1.5 mi
- DEPOR INDUSTRIES, INC.Brownfields · 1.5 mi
- J E GrovesUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY, LLC - COMPRESSOR STATION 87Brownfields · 1.6 mi
- KYOWA AMERICA CORPORATIONToxics Release Inventory · 1.7 mi
- KYOWA AMERICA CORPORATIONBrownfields · 1.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mitchellville'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 Mitchellville.
Total Sites
224
within ~10 miles of Mitchellville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mitchellville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mitchellville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mitchellville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Mitchellville — Toxics Release Inventory (35 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (146 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Mitchellville
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 Mitchellville average
Your land is one point inside Mitchellville
Everything above resolves to Mitchellville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 344 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 city 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 Mitchellville Average
Mitchellville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Mitchellville
- ●One soil character for all of Mitchellville
- ●Frost dates read at Mitchellville's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mitchellville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mitchellville
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Three things about your lot that Mitchellville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mitchellville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mitchellville average
How we know this about Mitchellville
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Mitchellville’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Mitchellville
When does frost risk typically end in Mitchellville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mitchellville 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 Mitchellville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mitchellville typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 235 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mitchellville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mitchellville sees about 235 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Oct 30, about 200 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mitchellville?
The federal record around Mitchellville is a meaningful one — 224 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (146), the nearest Nitrate record about 1.3 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 Mitchellville?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mitchellville's scale — its 7b band and its 235-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mitchellville'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 Mitchellville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Mitchellville's own scale — its own ~235-day season between 28°F freezes, the 344 acres it covers and 224 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mitchellville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mitchellville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 13 and the ~235-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 224 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mitchellville, the closest Nitrate record about 1.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mitchellville's boundary and the 344 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~235-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mitchellville's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Mitchellvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mitchellville's 344 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sumner County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sumner 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 Sumner County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mitchellville's 344 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mitchellville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 344 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 1.3 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 Mitchellville-wide figureread your own land →
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