Nedrow, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — 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 Nedrow, 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 Nedrow 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 Nedrow — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Nedrow — the short answer
Nedrow, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 188 days between hard freezes, across 616 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~188
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 616 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 6a is Nedrow's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Nedrow's 188-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Nedrow
Each reading below is measured for Nedrow itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNedrow runs about 188 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
MeasuredNedrow sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Nedrow is in
Nedrow sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Nedrow's own centroid rather than borrowed from Onondaga County.
What Grows in Nedrow
Every plant below cleared Nedrow's own zone 6a and its 188-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Nedrow?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 25 — 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 Nedrow
Spotted lanternfly documented 6 miles from Nedrow, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Nedrow
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Nedrow. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE 9030Brownfields · 350 ft
- ROCKWELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- HANSON AGGREGATES - NEDROW PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- DANIEL'S CAR CARE CENTER INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- GREELEY'S AUTO & TIRE, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- SPEEDWAY 7748Brownfields · 1900 ft
- ONONDAGA NATIONBrownfields · 1900 ft
- SPEEDWAY # 7748Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- DBA RITE AID #10755Brownfields · 2200 ft
- ONONDAGA NATION SCHOOLBrownfields · 2600 ft
- ALT FOOD AND FUEL INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- WSYR RADIOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Nedrow'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 Nedrow.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Nedrow
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Nedrow
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Nedrow
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 Nedrow average
Your land is one point inside Nedrow
Everything above resolves to Nedrow as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 616 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 Nedrow Average
Nedrow Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Nedrow
- ●One soil character for all of Nedrow
- ●Frost dates read at Nedrow's scale: Apr 20 to Oct 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Nedrow's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Nedrow
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Nedrow, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Nedrow — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Nedrow average
How we know this about Nedrow
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 Nedrow’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 Nedrow
When does frost risk typically end in Nedrow?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Nedrow typically lands around Apr 20, 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 11.
When is the first frost in Nedrow?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Nedrow typically arrives around Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 11, so the watching starts about Sep 25 — about 188 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Nedrow?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Nedrow sees about 188 frost-free days — roughly Apr 20 through Oct 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 11 to Oct 11, about 153 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Nedrow?
The federal record around Nedrow is a meaningful one — 1,626 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (789), the nearest Brownfields 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 Nedrow?
From about Sep 25 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Nedrow's scale — its 6a band and its 188-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Nedrow'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 Nedrow’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Nedrow's own scale — its own ~188-day season between 28°F freezes, the 616 acres it covers and 1,626 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Nedrow's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Nedrow's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 20 and Oct 25 and the ~188-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,626 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Nedrow, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Nedrow's boundary and the 616 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~188-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Nedrow's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Nedrowlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Nedrow's 616 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Onondaga County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Onondaga 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 Onondaga County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Nedrow's 616 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Nedrow you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 616 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Nedrow-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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