Daniels Farm, Connecticut, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Daniels Farm, 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 Daniels Farm lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Daniels Farm — the short answer
Daniels Farm, Connecticut: USDA zone 6b, about 208 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~208
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 6b is Daniels Farm's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Daniels Farm's 208-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Daniels Farm
Each reading below is measured for Daniels Farm itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDaniels Farm runs about 208 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
MeasuredDaniels Farm sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Daniels Farm is in
Daniels Farm sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Daniels Farm's own centroid rather than borrowed from Greater Bridgeport Planning Region.
What Grows in Daniels Farm
Every plant below cleared Daniels Farm's own zone 6b and its 208-day season. Each card opens that plant's Connecticut profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Daniels Farm?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — 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 Daniels Farm
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Daniels Farm, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Daniels Farm
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Daniels Farm. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MXI HHHWCBrownfields · 1800 ft
- CLEAN HARBORS HHHWBrownfields · 1800 ft
- TOWN OF TRUMBULL HHHWC/TRADEBEBrownfields · 2500 ft
- CLEAN HARBORS ENVIRONMENTAL HHHWBrownfields · 2500 ft
- CARE ENVBrownfields · 2500 ft
- CLEAN HARBORS HWWBrownfields · 2600 ft
- CT-TR 18Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- TRUMBULL PUMP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- ST JOSEPH'S MANOR, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- DUNNS SERVICE OF TRUMBULL INCBrownfields · 0.8 mi
- DANIELS FARM SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Burnett Fluorite Chalcopyrite OccurrenceMining · 0.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Daniels Farm'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 Daniels Farm.
Total Sites
1,969
within ~10 miles of Daniels Farm
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
33 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Daniels Farm
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Daniels Farm
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Daniels Farm, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Daniels Farm — Superfund (33 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (141 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Daniels Farm
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 Daniels Farm average
Your land is one point inside Daniels Farm
Everything above resolves to Daniels Farm as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 Daniels Farm Average
Daniels Farm Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Daniels Farm
- ●One soil character for all of Daniels Farm
- ●Frost dates read at Daniels Farm's scale: Apr 7 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Daniels Farm's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Daniels Farm
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Daniels Farm, Connecticut — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Daniels Farm averages can't show:
We read public map data around Daniels Farm — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Daniels Farm average
How we know this about Daniels Farm
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 Daniels Farm’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 Daniels Farm
When does frost risk typically end in Daniels Farm?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Daniels Farm typically lands around Apr 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in Daniels Farm?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Daniels Farm typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 208 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Daniels Farm?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Daniels Farm sees about 208 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 18, about 173 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Daniels Farm?
The federal record around Daniels Farm is a meaningful one — 1,969 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (982), the nearest Brownfields 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 Daniels Farm?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Daniels Farm's scale — its 6b band and its 208-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Daniels Farm'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 Daniels Farm’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Daniels Farm's own scale — its own ~208-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,121 acres it covers and 1,969 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Daniels Farm's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Daniels Farm's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Nov 1 and the ~208-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,969 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Daniels Farm, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Daniels Farm's boundary and the 3,121 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~208-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Daniels Farm's own centroid, the Northeastern Coastal ZoneUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Daniels Farmlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Daniels Farm's 3,121 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Greater Bridgeport County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Greater Bridgeport County
- The growing challenges every Connecticut grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Connecticut
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Greater Bridgeport County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Daniels Farm's 3,121 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Daniels Farm you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,121 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Daniels Farm-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across ConnecticutDaniels Farm sits outside our named growing regions, so Connecticut as a whole is its closest context here.
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