Bliss Corner, Massachusetts, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
You’re in Southeastern Massachusetts
The low coastal plain of the South Coast — mild, moist, and worked for market vegetables and small orchards for generations. One of the gentler corners of the Massachusetts growing map.
Even in Bliss Corner, 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 Bliss Corner lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bliss Corner — the short answer
Bliss Corner, Massachusetts: USDA zone 7a, about 231 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~231
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town 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 7a is Bliss Corner's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bliss Corner's 231-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bliss Corner
Each reading below is measured for Bliss Corner itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBliss Corner runs about 231 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
MeasuredBliss Corner sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Bliss Corner is in
Bliss Corner sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bliss Corner's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bristol County.
What Grows in Bliss Corner
Every plant below cleared Bliss Corner's own zone 7a and its 231-day season. Each card opens that plant's Massachusetts profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bliss Corner?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 16 — 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 Bliss Corner
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Bliss Corner, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bliss Corner
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bliss Corner. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DBA RITE AID 10210Brownfields · 700 ft
- BLISSEXPRESS INCBrownfields · 750 ft
- BLISS EXPRESS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL #20509Brownfields · 1100 ft
- BOB'S AUTO & TRUCK SERVICE INC.Brownfields · 1200 ft
- DARTMOUTH GAS & SERVICE INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- JIMS AUTO SERVICEBrownfields · 1900 ft
- MODERN AUTO BODY INCBrownfields · 2400 ft
- GETTY STATION #943680 BAPTISTAUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CVS PHARMACY 1955Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- MUFFLER & BRAKE SYSTEMSBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- SUNOCO GAS STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bliss Corner'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 Bliss Corner.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bliss Corner
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bliss Corner
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bliss Corner, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 523 sites within ~10 miles of Bliss Corner. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Bliss Corner
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 Bliss Corner average
Your land is one point inside Bliss Corner
Everything above resolves to Bliss Corner 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 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 Bliss Corner Average
Bliss Corner Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Bliss Corner
- ●One soil character for all of Bliss Corner
- ●Frost dates read at Bliss Corner's scale: Mar 30 to Nov 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bliss Corner's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bliss Corner
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bliss Corner, Massachusetts — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bliss Corner averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bliss Corner — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bliss Corner average
How we know this about Bliss Corner
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 Bliss Corner’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 Bliss Corner
When does frost risk typically end in Bliss Corner?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bliss Corner typically lands around Mar 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Bliss Corner?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bliss Corner typically arrives around Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 2, so the watching starts about Oct 17 — about 231 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bliss Corner?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bliss Corner sees about 231 frost-free days — roughly Mar 30 through Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 20 to Nov 2, about 196 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bliss Corner?
The federal record around Bliss Corner runs heavier than most — 900 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (523), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Bliss Corner?
From about Oct 17 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bliss Corner's scale — its 7a band and its 231-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bliss Corner'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 Bliss Corner’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bliss Corner's own scale — its own ~231-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,281 acres it covers and 900 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bliss Corner's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bliss Corner's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 30 and Nov 16 and the ~231-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 900 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bliss Corner, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bliss Corner's boundary and the 1,281 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~231-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bliss Corner's own centroid, the Northeastern Coastal ZoneUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Bliss Cornerlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bliss Corner's 1,281 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bristol County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bristol County
- The growing challenges every Massachusetts grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Massachusetts
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Bristol County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bliss Corner's 1,281 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bliss Corner you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,281 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Bliss Corner-wide figureread your own land →