Green Spring, West Virginia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, pawpaw, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Green Spring, 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 Green Spring lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Green Spring — the short answer
Green Spring, West Virginia: USDA zone 7a, about 209 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~209
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 7a is Green Spring's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Green Spring's 209-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Green Spring
Each reading below is measured for Green Spring itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGreen Spring runs about 209 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
MeasuredGreen Spring sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Green Spring is in
Green Spring sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Green Spring's own centroid rather than borrowed from Hampshire County.
What Grows in Green Spring
Every plant below cleared Green Spring's own zone 7a and its 209-day season. Each card opens that plant's West Virginia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Green Spring?
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 Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — 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.
Documented around Green Spring
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Green Spring, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Green Spring
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Green Spring. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Hmp-0353Nitrate · 2100 ft
- KOPPERS INC (GREEN SPRING WV)Toxics Release Inventory · 1.0 mi
- KOPPERS INC (GREEN SPRING WV)Brownfields · 1.0 mi
- FOLEY SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- KOPPERS CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- AL Cf 54Nitrate · 1.4 mi
- Oldtown General StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- AL Cf 43Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- AL Cf 44Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- AL Cf 53Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- MT LEVELS ORCHARDUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
- LEVEL'S FAMILY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Green Spring'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 Green Spring.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Green Spring
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Green Spring
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Green Spring, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 54 sites within ~10 miles of Green Spring. 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 Green Spring
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 Green Spring
Everything above resolves to Green Spring as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Green Spring Average
Green Spring Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Green Spring
- ●One soil character for all of Green Spring
- ●Frost dates read at Green Spring's scale: Apr 4 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Green Spring's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Three things about your lot that Green Spring averages can't show:
We read public map data around Green Spring — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Green Spring
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 Green Spring’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 Green Spring
When does frost risk typically end in Green Spring?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Green Spring typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Green Spring?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Green Spring typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 209 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Green Spring?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Green Spring sees about 209 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 16, about 174 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Green Spring?
The federal record around Green Spring is a meaningful one — 158 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (69), the nearest Nitrate 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 Green Spring?
From about Sep 30 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Green Spring's scale — its 7a band and its 209-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Green Spring'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 Green Spring’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Green Spring's own scale — its own ~209-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,406 acres it covers and 158 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Green Spring's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Green Spring's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Oct 30 and the ~209-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 158 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Green Spring, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Green Spring's boundary and the 1,406 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~209-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Green Spring's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Green Springlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Green Spring's 1,406 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Hampshire County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Hampshire County
- The growing challenges every West Virginia grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom West Virginia
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Hampshire County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Green Spring's 1,406 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Green Spring you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,406 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Green Spring-wide figureread your own land →
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