Deposit, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Deposit, 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 Deposit lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Deposit — the short answer
Deposit, New York: USDA zone 5b, about 170 days between hard freezes, across 808 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~170
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 808 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 5b is Deposit's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Deposit's 170-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Deposit
Each reading below is measured for Deposit itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDeposit runs about 170 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
MeasuredDeposit sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Deposit is in
Deposit sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Deposit's own centroid rather than borrowed from Broome County.
What Grows in Deposit
Every plant below cleared Deposit's own zone 5b and its 170-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Deposit?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 18 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Deposit
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Deposit, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Deposit
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Deposit. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- S & S AUTO & RADIATOR LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- DEPOSIT COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- BLANFORDS SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- DELAWARE COUNTY ELECTRIC COOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- DEPOSIT QUICKWAY #9Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- DEPOSIT SERVICE CENTER NYSEGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- TOWN OF SANFORD HWY DEPTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- ED HARTZ & SONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- D 276Nitrate · 1900 ft
- DEPOSIT TELEPHONEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- NEW YORK STATE POLICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- DEPOSIT FUEL CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Deposit'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 Deposit.
Total Sites
98
within ~10 miles of Deposit
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Deposit
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Deposit
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Deposit, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Deposit — Superfund (5 sites) and Nitrate (32 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Deposit
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Deposit
Everything above resolves to Deposit as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 808 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 Deposit Average
Deposit Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Deposit
- ●One soil character for all of Deposit
- ●Frost dates read at Deposit's scale: May 1 to Oct 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Deposit's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Deposit
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Deposit, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Deposit averages can't show:
We read public map data around Deposit — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Deposit average
How we know this about Deposit
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 Deposit’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 Deposit
When does frost risk typically end in Deposit?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Deposit typically lands around May 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Deposit?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Deposit typically arrives around Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 4, so the watching starts about Sep 18 — about 170 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Deposit?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Deposit sees about 170 frost-free days — roughly May 1 through Oct 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 22 to Oct 4, about 135 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Deposit?
The federal record around Deposit is a meaningful one — 98 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (35), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Deposit?
From about Sep 18 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Deposit's scale — its 5b band and its 170-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Deposit'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 Deposit’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Deposit's own scale — its own ~170-day season between 28°F freezes, the 808 acres it covers and 98 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Deposit's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Deposit's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 1 and Oct 18 and the ~170-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 98 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Deposit, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Deposit's boundary and the 808 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~170-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Deposit's own centroid, the Northern Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Depositlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Deposit's 808 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Broome County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Broome 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 Broome County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Deposit's 808 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Deposit you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 808 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Deposit-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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