Nolensville, Tennessee, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Nolensville, 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 Nolensville 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 Nolensville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Nolensville — the short answer
Nolensville, Tennessee: USDA zone 7b, about 228 days between hard freezes, across 7K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~228
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 7K 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 Nolensville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Nolensville's 228-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Nolensville
Each reading below is measured for Nolensville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNolensville runs about 228 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
MeasuredNolensville 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 Nolensville is in
Nolensville sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Nolensville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Williamson County.
What Grows in Nolensville
Every plant below cleared Nolensville's own zone 7b and its 228-day season. Each card opens that plant's Tennessee profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Nolensville?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Nolensville
Spotted lanternfly documented 5 miles from Nolensville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Nolensville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Nolensville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- J T Williams GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Nolensville Auto Car Care, Inc,Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- 7216 Twice DailyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- Brittain's GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- UnkUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Bentley And Son TruckingUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Two-Way Stop MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- PUBLIX SUPERMARKET #2009Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- BRADLEY COATINGS, INC.Brownfields · 1.0 mi
- In and Out MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Trinity JunctionUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- Brittian's GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Nolensville'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 Nolensville.
Total Sites
643
within ~10 miles of Nolensville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Nolensville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Nolensville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Nolensville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Nolensville — Toxics Release Inventory (52 sites) and PFAS (6 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.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Nolensville
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 Nolensville average
Your land is one point inside Nolensville
Everything above resolves to Nolensville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 7K 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 Nolensville Average
Nolensville Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Nolensville
- ●One soil character for all of Nolensville
- ●Frost dates read at Nolensville's scale: Mar 25 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Nolensville's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Nolensville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Nolensville, Tennessee — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Nolensville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Nolensville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Nolensville average
How we know this about Nolensville
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 Nolensville’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 Nolensville
When does frost risk typically end in Nolensville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Nolensville typically lands around Mar 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Nolensville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Nolensville typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 228 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Nolensville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Nolensville sees about 228 frost-free days — roughly Mar 25 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 15 to Oct 25, about 193 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Nolensville?
The federal record around Nolensville is a meaningful one — 643 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (357), 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 Nolensville?
From about Oct 9 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Nolensville's scale — its 7b band and its 228-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Nolensville'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 Nolensville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Nolensville's own scale — its own ~228-day season between 28°F freezes, the 6,684 acres it covers and 643 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Nolensville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Nolensville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 25 and Nov 8 and the ~228-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 643 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Nolensville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Nolensville's boundary and the 6,684 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~228-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Nolensville's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Nolensvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Nolensville's 6,684 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Williamson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Williamson 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 Williamson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Nolensville's 6,684 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Nolensville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 6,684 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 Nolensville-wide figureread your own land →
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