East Village, Connecticut, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in East Village, 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 East Village 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 East Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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East Village — the short answer
East Village, Connecticut: USDA zone 6b, about 210 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- 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
- ~210
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 East Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against East Village's 210-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in East Village
Each reading below is measured for East Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEast Village runs about 210 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
MeasuredEast Village 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 East Village is in
East Village sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at East Village's own centroid rather than borrowed from Greater Bridgeport Planning Region.
What Grows in East Village
Every plant below cleared East Village's own zone 6b and its 210-day season. Each card opens that plant's Connecticut profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in East Village?
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 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (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. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around East Village
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from East Village, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near East Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of East Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ANODIC, INCBrownfields · 2200 ft
- Pegmatite Quarry East VillageMining · 0.6 mi
- MARIAN HEIGHTS PROVINCIALATEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- RENZ CONSTRUCTION CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- STEVENSON LUMBER COMPANY INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- MONDO BRUCE C SEPTIC SERVICEBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- MONDO'S SEPTIC SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- Monroe Henny PennyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- WHITNEY FARMS GOLF COURSEBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- WHITNEY FARMS (GOLF COURSE)/ STONE BARNUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- MONROE TOWN HALLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- EDGERTON, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from East Village'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 East Village.
Total Sites
1,038
within ~10 miles of East Village
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
23 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of East Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of East Village
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around East Village, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 23 sites within ~10 miles of East Village. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in East Village
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 East Village average
Your land is one point inside East Village
Everything above resolves to East Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 East Village Average
East Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across East Village
- ●One soil character for all of East Village
- ●Frost dates read at East Village's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not East Village's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in East Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in East Village, Connecticut — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that East Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around East Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the East Village average
How we know this about East Village
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 East Village’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 East Village
When does frost risk typically end in East Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in East Village typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in East Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in East Village 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 210 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in East Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, East Village sees about 210 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 18, about 175 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in East Village?
The federal record around East Village is a meaningful one — 1,038 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (449), the nearest Brownfields 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 East Village?
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 East Village's scale — its 6b band and its 210-day season. Your yard writes its own version of East Village'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 East Village’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at East Village's own scale — its own ~210-day season between 28°F freezes, the 4,164 acres it covers and 1,038 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- East Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- East Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 1 and the ~210-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,038 documented contamination sites on the federal record near East Village, the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- East Village's boundary and the 4,164 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~210-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at East Village's own centroid, the Northeastern Coastal ZoneUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of East Villagelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so East Village's 4,164 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 East Village's 4,164 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of East Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,164 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 East Village-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across ConnecticutEast Village sits outside our named growing regions, so Connecticut as a whole is its closest context here.
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