Garden, MI 49864 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Garden, MI?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 05/16, roughly 261 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 09/24, about 129 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Garden in Zone 5b (-15 to -10°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
About 4 weeks of growing season left in Garden before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Garden's last frost
05/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 05/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 06/03 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Garden compares
About 129 days separate Garden's last and first frost, putting it 38,510 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MI, it ranks 1,045 of 1,153.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Garden's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Garden can differ from the 49864 normal.