What Grows in North Logan, Utah

USDA Zones 6a · 5K acres

North Logan, Utah, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.

Well-matched crops include cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.

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North Logan — the short answer

North Logan, Utah: USDA zone 6a, about 178 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of city.

USDA zone
6a
USDA PHZM 2023
Last hard freeze (28°F)
Apr 24
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
First hard freeze (28°F)
Oct 19
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
Days between freezes
~178
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
City area
5K 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

6a6a
3a (Cold)13b (Hot)

Zone 6a is North Logan's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against North Logan's 178-day season, see what your own ground reads.

Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.

What this means for growing in North Logan

Each reading below is measured for North Logan itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.

Season length

Measured

North Logan runs about 178 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.

There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.

Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.

NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals

Winter hardiness

Measured

North Logan sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.

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 North Logan is in

North Logan sits in the Central Basin and Range — EPA Level III, inside the wider North American Deserts. That is read at North Logan's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Cache County is mostly Wasatch and Uinta Mountains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.

What that means for soil

What Grows in North Logan

Every plant below cleared North Logan's own zone 6a and its 178-day season. Each card opens that plant's Utah profile. How we score.

cabbage, photograph
Growing cabbage in UtahZones 2–11North Logan's 6a — 4 zones of cold margin.
blackberry, photograph
Utah blackberry guideZones 5–8North Logan's 6a — 1 zone of cold margin.
California poppy, photograph
California poppy in UtahZones 6–10North Logan's 6a is its exact cold limit.
collard greens, photograph
Collard greens: Utah growing notesZones 2–11North Logan's 6a — 4 zones of cold margin.
cranberry, photograph
Growing cranberry in UtahZones 2–7North Logan's 6a — 4 zones of cold margin.
lavender, photograph
Utah lavender guideZones 5–8North Logan's 6a — 1 zone of cold margin.
garlic, photograph
Garlic in UtahZones 2–10North Logan's 6a — 4 zones of cold margin.
pawpaw, photograph
Pawpaw: Utah growing notesZones 5–9North Logan's 6a — 1 zone of cold margin.
St. Johns wort, photograph
Growing st. johns wort in UtahZones 3–8North Logan's 6a — 3 zones of cold margin.
kale, photograph
Utah kale guideZones 2–11North Logan's 6a — 4 zones of cold margin.
pecan, photograph
Pecan in UtahZones 5–9North Logan's 6a — 1 zone of cold margin.
Turkish rocket, photograph
Turkish rocket: Utah growing notesNorth Logan's 178 days clear the ~90 it needs.
lentil, photograph
Growing lentil in UtahZones 2–11North Logan's 178 days clear the ~70 it needs.
okra, photograph
Utah okra guideZones 2–12North Logan's 178 days clear the ~50 it needs.
potato, photograph
Potato in UtahZones 2–11North Logan's 6a — 4 zones of cold margin.
hosta, photograph
Hosta: Utah growing notesZones 3–8North Logan's 6a — 3 zones of cold margin.
sunflower, photograph
Growing sunflower in UtahZones 2–11North Logan's 178 days clear the ~70 it needs.
azalea, photograph
Utah azalea guideZones 4–8North Logan's 6a — 2 zones of cold margin.
hops, photograph
Hops in UtahZones 3–8North Logan's 6a — 3 zones of cold margin.
iris, photograph
Iris: Utah growing notesZones 3–10North Logan's 6a — 3 zones of cold margin.
French marigold, photograph
Growing french marigold in UtahNorth Logan's 178 days clear the ~50 it needs.
lilac, photograph
Utah lilac guideZones 4–10North Logan's 6a — 2 zones of cold margin.
American bittersweet, photograph
American bittersweet in UtahZones 3–8North Logan's 6a — 3 zones of cold margin.
tulip, photograph
Tulip: Utah growing notesZones 6–8North Logan's 6a is its exact cold limit.
American elm, photograph
Growing american elm in UtahZones 3–9North Logan's 6a — 3 zones of cold margin.
Ethiopian mustard, photograph
Utah ethiopian mustard guideZones 4–10North Logan's 6a — 2 zones of cold margin.
Kentucky bluegrass, botanical illustration
Kentucky bluegrass in UtahZones 2–7North Logan's 6a — 4 zones of cold margin.
blue spruce, photograph
Blue spruce: Utah growing notesZones 2–8North Logan's 6a — 4 zones of cold margin.
alfalfa, photograph
Growing alfalfa in UtahZones 2–10North Logan's 178 days clear the ~100 it needs.
Canada wild rye, photograph
Utah canada wild rye guideZones 3–8North Logan's 6a — 3 zones of cold margin.

Is it too late to plant in North Logan?

Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 19 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.

What's on the federal record near North Logan

Closest first, within ~10 miles of North Logan. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.

  1. NORTH LOGAN CITYPFAS · 2300 ft
  2. RON'S SERVICE CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
  3. CACHE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
  4. UTAH STATE UNIVERSITYBrownfields · 0.7 mi
  5. USU GREENVILLE FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
  6. CACHE VALLEY HOSPITALBrownfields · 0.8 mi
  7. NORTH LOGAN CITY MAINT. SHEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
  8. NORTH LOGAN CITY SHOPBrownfields · 1.0 mi
  9. LARWEST ENGINEERINGBrownfields · 1.1 mi
  10. INTECH ONE EIGHTY CORPORATIONBrownfields · 1.1 mi
  11. ENVIROL INC.Brownfields · 1.1 mi
  12. UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY ECOLOGY CENTERBrownfields · 1.1 mi

6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map

Measured from North Logan'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 North Logan.

Total Sites

425

within ~10 miles of North Logan

Risk Level

Elevated

Highest-severity

1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)

Severity Distribution

within ~10 miles of North Logan

High5Moderate180Low240

Highest-Severity Sites

Egan Claim
Mining Sites · Past Producer
Hyde Park City Water System
PFAS Sampling · PFAS Detected
Logan City Water System
PFAS Sampling · PFAS Detected
North Logan City
PFAS Sampling · PFAS Detected
Smithfield City
PFAS Sampling · PFAS Detected

A note from Gnorman

What an experienced grower watches for around here

In and around North Logan, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of North Logan — CAFO (10 sites) and PFAS (7 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.

CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.

PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.

Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.

Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.

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Your land is one point inside North Logan

Everything above resolves to North Logan as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 5K 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 North Logan Average

North Logan Average

  • USDA Zones 6a, averaged across North Logan
  • One soil character for all of North Logan
  • Frost dates read at North Logan's scale: Apr 24 to Oct 19

YOUR Parcel

  • Your exact zone, not North Logan's 6a
  • Your SSURGO soil type & pH
  • Your sun exposure, cast in 3D

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Your soil pHYour frost-free days — North Logan averages 178Your sun & shade

We read public map data around North Logan — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.

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How we know this about North Logan

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 North Logan’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 North Logan

When does frost risk typically end in North Logan?

The last hard freeze (28°F) in North Logan typically lands around Apr 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 May 15.

When is the first frost in North Logan?

The first hard freeze (28°F) in North Logan typically arrives around Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 5, so the watching starts about Sep 19 — about 178 days after the spring freeze cleared.

How long is the growing season in North Logan?

Measured between 28°F hard freezes, North Logan sees about 178 frost-free days — roughly Apr 24 through Oct 19, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 15 to Oct 5, about 143 days.

Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in North Logan?

The federal record around North Logan is a meaningful one — 425 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (190), the nearest PFAS record about 0.4 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 North Logan?

From about Sep 19 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 Oct 19 (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 Oct 19. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.

Everything above is measured at North Logan's scale — its 6a band and its 178-day season. Your yard writes its own version of North Logan'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 North Logan’s own scale

6 of the readings below were taken at North Logan's own scale — its own ~178-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,556 acres it covers and 425 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.

Measured here

  • North Logan's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
  • North Logan's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 24 and Oct 19 and the ~178-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
  • 425 documented contamination sites on the federal record near North Logan, the closest PFAS record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
  • North Logan's boundary and the 4,556 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
  • Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~178-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
  • North Logan sits in the Central Basin and Range — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions

Inherited from a wider read

  • Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so North Logan's 4,556 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cache County
  • Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cache County
  • The growing challenges every Utah grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Utah
  • Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Cache County

What this page can’t tell you

  • The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among North Logan's 4,556 acreswhy one lot differs from the next
  • Which side of North Logan you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,556 acresreading your own microclimate
  • How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS 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 North Logan-wide figureread your own land
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