Constableville, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, cranberry, turkish rocket, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Constableville, 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 Constableville 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 Constableville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
No card required · your full report in seconds
Constableville — the short answer
Constableville, New York: USDA zone 4b, about 165 days between hard freezes, across 724 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~165
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 724 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 4b is Constableville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Constableville's 165-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Constableville
Each reading below is measured for Constableville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredConstableville runs about 165 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
MeasuredConstableville sits in USDA hardiness zone 4b.
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 Constableville is in
Constableville sits in the Northeastern Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at Constableville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lewis County.
What Grows in Constableville
Every plant below cleared Constableville's own zone 4b and its 165-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Constableville?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 16 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Constableville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Constableville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 49 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Constableville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Constableville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SULLIVAN'S SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- F.J. SMITH & SONS INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- L 182Nitrate · 650 ft
- MATTHEW A. & LETICIA A. ZEHRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- WEST TURIN(T) HIGHWAY DEPT.Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- NICE N EASY #7610Underground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- CIRCLE K #7610Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- KRAEGER FARMCAFO · 1.1 mi
- LEWIS CO HIGHWAY DEPT - PROJECT BRIDGE REHABILITATIONBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- LTD ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICESBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- MARKHAM FARMS INCCAFO · 2.3 mi
- VILLAGE CAFEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Constableville'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 Constableville.
Total Sites
120
within ~10 miles of Constableville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Constableville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Constableville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Constableville, CAFO runs higher than the national average — 5 sites within ~10 miles of Constableville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check your specific parcel in Constableville
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 Constableville average
Your land is one point inside Constableville
Everything above resolves to Constableville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 724 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 Constableville Average
Constableville Average
- ●USDA Zones 4b, averaged across Constableville
- ●One soil character for all of Constableville
- ●Frost dates read at Constableville's scale: May 4 to Oct 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Constableville's 4b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your specific parcel in Constableville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Constableville, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Constableville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Constableville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Constableville average
How we know this about Constableville
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 Constableville’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 Constableville
When does frost risk typically end in Constableville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Constableville typically lands around May 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Constableville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Constableville typically arrives around Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 2, so the watching starts about Sep 16 — about 165 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Constableville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Constableville sees about 165 frost-free days — roughly May 4 through Oct 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 25 to Oct 2, about 130 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Constableville?
The federal record around Constableville is a meaningful one — 120 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (55), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Constableville?
From about Sep 16 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 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 Oct 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Constableville's scale — its 4b band and its 165-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Constableville'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 Constableville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Constableville's own scale — its own ~165-day season between 28°F freezes, the 724 acres it covers and 120 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Constableville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Constableville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 4 and Oct 16 and the ~165-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 120 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Constableville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Constableville's boundary and the 724 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4b and a ~165-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Constableville's own centroid, the Northeastern HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Constableville 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 Constableville's 724 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lewis County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lewis County
- The growing challenges every New York grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom New York
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Lewis County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Constableville's 724 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Constableville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 724 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Constableville-wide figureread your own land →