Pewee Valley, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Pewee Valley, 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 Pewee Valley lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pewee Valley — the short answer
Pewee Valley, Kentucky: USDA zone 6b, about 223 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~223
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City 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 6b is Pewee Valley's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pewee Valley's 223-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pewee Valley
Each reading below is measured for Pewee Valley itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPewee Valley runs about 223 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
MeasuredPewee Valley 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 Pewee Valley is in
Pewee Valley sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pewee Valley's own centroid rather than borrowed from Oldham County.
What Grows in Pewee Valley
Every plant below cleared Pewee Valley's own zone 6b and its 223-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pewee Valley?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 7 — 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 Pewee Valley
Survey cells within 31 miles of Pewee Valley checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 42 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pewee Valley
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pewee Valley. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Standard Oil of KYUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- John B English & Sons IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Beards GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- Cissells Automotive ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- D18C0035Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- D18C0036Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- Save A Step No 5815Underground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Klosterman GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Parrish Implement-EastUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- South Central Lsvlkycw Real EsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Station #7854Underground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Charles M Koenig SrUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pewee Valley'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 Pewee Valley.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pewee Valley
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pewee Valley
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pewee Valley, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 459 sites within ~10 miles of Pewee Valley. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Pewee Valley
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 Pewee Valley average
Your land is one point inside Pewee Valley
Everything above resolves to Pewee Valley 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 city 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 Pewee Valley Average
Pewee Valley Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Pewee Valley
- ●One soil character for all of Pewee Valley
- ●Frost dates read at Pewee Valley's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pewee Valley's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pewee Valley
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pewee Valley, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pewee Valley averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pewee Valley — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pewee Valley average
How we know this about Pewee Valley
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Pewee Valley’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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Pewee Valley
When does frost risk typically end in Pewee Valley?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pewee Valley typically lands around Mar 29, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Pewee Valley?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pewee Valley typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 223 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pewee Valley?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pewee Valley sees about 223 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 24, about 188 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pewee Valley?
The federal record around Pewee Valley is a meaningful one — 648 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (459), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Pewee Valley?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pewee Valley's scale — its 6b band and its 223-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pewee Valley'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 Pewee Valley’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pewee Valley's own scale — its own ~223-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,236 acres it covers and 648 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pewee Valley's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pewee Valley's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 7 and the ~223-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 648 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pewee Valley, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pewee Valley's boundary and the 1,236 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~223-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pewee Valley's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Pewee Valley checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pewee Valley's 1,236 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Oldham County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Oldham County
- The growing challenges every Kentucky grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kentucky
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Oldham County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pewee Valley's 1,236 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pewee Valley you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,236 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Pewee Valley-wide figureread your own land →