Pine Bush, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pine Bush, 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 Pine Bush lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pine Bush — the short answer
Pine Bush, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 199 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~199
- 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 6b is Pine Bush's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pine Bush's 199-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pine Bush
Each reading below is measured for Pine Bush itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPine Bush runs about 199 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
MeasuredPine Bush sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Pine Bush is in
Pine Bush sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pine Bush's own centroid rather than borrowed from Orange County.
What Grows in Pine Bush
Every plant below cleared Pine Bush's own zone 6b and its 199-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pine Bush?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Pine Bush
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Pine Bush, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pine Bush
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pine Bush. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- YOUNGS AUTO WRECKERS INCBrownfields · 750 ft
- YOUNGS SERVICE STATION INCBrownfields · 750 ft
- DBA RITE AID #03518Brownfields · 800 ft
- YOUNGS SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- ROBERTSON MAIN STREET PROPERTIES, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- SCOTTAL LTD #0623-8976/#34557Underground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- PINE BUSH CITGOUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- BLIX CORPORATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- SUNNY DRY CLEANERSBrownfields · 1200 ft
- O 810Nitrate · 1200 ft
- DEWITT FUNERAL HOMEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- FIRST STUDENT, INC. #11755Underground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pine Bush'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 Pine Bush.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pine Bush
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pine Bush
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pine Bush, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pine Bush — Superfund (8 sites) and PFAS (4 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.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Pine Bush
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 Pine Bush average
Your land is one point inside Pine Bush
Everything above resolves to Pine Bush 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 Pine Bush Average
Pine Bush Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Pine Bush
- ●One soil character for all of Pine Bush
- ●Frost dates read at Pine Bush's scale: Apr 11 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pine Bush's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pine Bush
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pine Bush, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pine Bush averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pine Bush — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pine Bush average
How we know this about Pine Bush
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 Pine Bush’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 Pine Bush
When does frost risk typically end in Pine Bush?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pine Bush typically lands around Apr 11, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Pine Bush?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pine Bush typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 199 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pine Bush?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pine Bush sees about 199 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 13, about 164 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pine Bush?
The federal record around Pine Bush is a meaningful one — 414 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (249), the nearest Brownfields 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 Pine Bush?
From about Sep 27 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 27 (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 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pine Bush's scale — its 6b band and its 199-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pine Bush'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 Pine Bush’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pine Bush's own scale — its own ~199-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,348 acres it covers and 414 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pine Bush's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pine Bush's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Oct 27 and the ~199-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 414 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pine Bush, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pine Bush's boundary and the 1,348 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~199-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pine Bush's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Pine Bushlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pine Bush's 1,348 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Orange County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Orange 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 Orange County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pine Bush's 1,348 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pine Bush you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,348 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 Pine Bush-wide figureread your own land →