Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government, 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 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government — the short answer
Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 236 days between hard freezes, across 304K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- 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
- ~236
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 304K 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 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's 236-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government
Each reading below is measured for Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNashville-Davidson metropolitan government runs about 236 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
MeasuredNashville-Davidson metropolitan government 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 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government is in
Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's own centroid rather than borrowed from Davidson County.
What Grows in Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government
Every plant below cleared Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's own zone 7b and its 236-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government
Spotted lanternfly documented 5 miles from Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Capitol Complex Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- Old Delco BuildingUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- Rollins Leasing CorpUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- Tennessee Trailblazer*Underground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- Formerly Morrissey ChevronUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- All Right ParkingUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Metro Tax PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Hampton Crane Service IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Nashville Scott Motors IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Mayo And ShrumUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- U.t. Experiment StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Hardison Seed CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government'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 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government.
Total Sites
1,970
within ~10 miles of Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
12 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government — Underground Storage Tanks (1,349 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (133 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government
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 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government
Everything above resolves to Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 304K 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 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government Average
Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government
- ●One soil character for all of Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government
- ●Frost dates read at Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government averages can't show:
We read public map data around Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government average
How we know this about Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government
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 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government’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 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government
When does frost risk typically end in Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government typically lands around Mar 21, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government 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 236 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government sees about 236 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Oct 29, about 201 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government?
The federal record around Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government is a meaningful one — 1,970 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,349), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government?
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 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's scale — its 7b band and its 236-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government'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 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's own scale — its own ~236-day season between 28°F freezes, the 304,365 acres it covers and 1,970 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 12 and the ~236-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,970 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's boundary and the 304,365 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~236-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Nashville-Davidson metropolitan governmentlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's 304,365 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Davidson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Davidson 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 Davidson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government's 304,365 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 304,365 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Nashville-Davidson metropolitan government-wide figureread your own land →
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