Holland Patent, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Holland Patent, 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 Holland Patent lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Holland Patent — the short answer
Holland Patent, New York: USDA zone 5b, about 180 days between hard freezes, across 324 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~180
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 324 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 Holland Patent's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Holland Patent's 180-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Holland Patent
Each reading below is measured for Holland Patent itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHolland Patent runs about 180 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
MeasuredHolland Patent 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 Holland Patent is in
Holland Patent sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Holland Patent's own centroid rather than borrowed from Oneida County.
What Grows in Holland Patent
Every plant below cleared Holland Patent's own zone 5b and its 180-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Holland Patent?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 29; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 23 — 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 Holland Patent
Survey cells within 31 miles of Holland Patent checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 45 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Holland Patent
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Holland Patent. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- STEWART'S SHOPS CORP. #434Underground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- ONEIDA COUNTY RURAL TELEPHONE CO.Underground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- HOLLAND PATENT MID & ELEM SCH.Underground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- AGWAY ENERGY PRODUCTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- HOLLAND PATENT HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- HOLLAND PATENT C.S. BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- OE2876Nitrate · 0.7 mi
- ONE STOP MART, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- MILLS CORNER STORE, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- GEN. WM. FLOYD AT STITTVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- NYSDOT BIN 7051800Brownfields · 2.3 mi
- STEVE'S CHEVRON SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Holland Patent'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 Holland Patent.
Total Sites
716
within ~10 miles of Holland Patent
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
10 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Holland Patent
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Holland Patent
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Holland Patent, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Holland Patent — Superfund (10 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (44 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Holland Patent
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 Holland Patent
Everything above resolves to Holland Patent as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 324 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 Holland Patent Average
Holland Patent Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Holland Patent
- ●One soil character for all of Holland Patent
- ●Frost dates read at Holland Patent's scale: Apr 26 to Oct 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Holland Patent's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Holland Patent
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Holland Patent, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Holland Patent averages can't show:
We read public map data around Holland Patent — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Holland Patent
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 Holland Patent’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 Holland Patent
When does frost risk typically end in Holland Patent?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Holland Patent typically lands around Apr 26, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Holland Patent?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Holland Patent typically arrives around Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 9, so the watching starts about Sep 23 — about 180 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Holland Patent?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Holland Patent sees about 180 frost-free days — roughly Apr 26 through Oct 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 17 to Oct 9, about 145 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Holland Patent?
The federal record around Holland Patent is a meaningful one — 716 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (413), 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 Holland Patent?
From about Sep 23 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Holland Patent's scale — its 5b band and its 180-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Holland Patent'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 Holland Patent’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Holland Patent's own scale — its own ~180-day season between 28°F freezes, the 324 acres it covers and 716 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Holland Patent's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Holland Patent's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 26 and Oct 23 and the ~180-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 716 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Holland Patent, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Holland Patent's boundary and the 324 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~180-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Holland Patent's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Holland Patent 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 Holland Patent's 324 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Oneida County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Oneida 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 Oneida County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Holland Patent's 324 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Holland Patent you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 324 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 Holland Patent-wide figureread your own land →
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