Lake Bungee, 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.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Lake Bungee, 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 Lake Bungee lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Lake Bungee — the short answer
Lake Bungee, Connecticut: USDA zone 6b, about 197 days between hard freezes, across 236 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~197
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 236 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 Lake Bungee's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Lake Bungee's 197-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Lake Bungee
Each reading below is measured for Lake Bungee itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredLake Bungee runs about 197 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
MeasuredLake Bungee 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 Lake Bungee is in
Lake Bungee sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Lake Bungee's own centroid rather than borrowed from Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region.
What Grows in Lake Bungee
Every plant below cleared Lake Bungee's own zone 6b and its 197-day season. Each card opens that plant's Connecticut profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Lake Bungee?
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 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. The tail of the season still works: sixty-day crops into late summer, quick greens after, garlic last of all.
Documented around Lake Bungee
Spotted lanternfly documented 22 miles from Lake Bungee, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Lake Bungee
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Lake Bungee. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CT-WK 206Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- CT-WK 27Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- CT-WK 60Nitrate · 1.8 mi
- CT-WK 18Nitrate · 2.1 mi
- CT-WK 59Nitrate · 2.4 mi
- CT-WK 69Nitrate · 2.4 mi
- CT-WK 62Nitrate · 2.6 mi
- PUTNAM WATER POLLUTION CONTROL AUTHORITYPFAS · 3.1 mi
- WHITCRAFTBrownfields · 3.2 mi
- WHITCRAFTToxics Release Inventory · 3.2 mi
- WOODSTOCK MAINTENANCE GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- CT-U 4Nitrate · 3.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Lake Bungee'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 Lake Bungee.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Lake Bungee
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Lake Bungee
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Lake Bungee, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Lake Bungee — Superfund (9 sites) and PFAS (4 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.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Lake Bungee
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 Lake Bungee average
Your land is one point inside Lake Bungee
Everything above resolves to Lake Bungee as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 236 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 Lake Bungee Average
Lake Bungee Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Lake Bungee
- ●One soil character for all of Lake Bungee
- ●Frost dates read at Lake Bungee's scale: Apr 13 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Lake Bungee's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Lake Bungee
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Lake Bungee, Connecticut — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Lake Bungee averages can't show:
We read public map data around Lake Bungee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Lake Bungee average
How we know this about Lake Bungee
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 Lake Bungee’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 Lake Bungee
When does frost risk typically end in Lake Bungee?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Lake Bungee typically lands around Apr 13, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Lake Bungee?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Lake Bungee typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 197 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Lake Bungee?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Lake Bungee sees about 197 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 13, about 162 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Lake Bungee?
The federal record around Lake Bungee is a meaningful one — 477 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (192), the nearest Nitrate record about 1.1 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 Lake Bungee?
From about Sep 27 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Lake Bungee's scale — its 6b band and its 197-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Lake Bungee'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 Lake Bungee’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Lake Bungee's own scale — its own ~197-day season between 28°F freezes, the 236 acres it covers and 477 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Lake Bungee's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Lake Bungee's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Oct 27 and the ~197-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 477 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Lake Bungee, the closest Nitrate record about 1.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Lake Bungee's boundary and the 236 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~197-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Lake Bungee's own centroid, the Northeastern Coastal ZoneUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Lake Bungeelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Lake Bungee's 236 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Northeastern Connecticut County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Northeastern Connecticut 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 Northeastern Connecticut County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Lake Bungee's 236 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Lake Bungee you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 236 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 1.1 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 Lake Bungee-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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