Salisbury Mills, 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.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Salisbury Mills, 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 Salisbury Mills lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Salisbury Mills — the short answer
Salisbury Mills, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 319 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 319 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 Salisbury Mills's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Salisbury Mills's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Salisbury Mills
Each reading below is measured for Salisbury Mills itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSalisbury Mills runs about 213 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredSalisbury Mills 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 Salisbury Mills is in
Salisbury Mills sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Salisbury Mills's own centroid rather than borrowed from Orange County.
What Grows in Salisbury Mills
Every plant below cleared Salisbury Mills's own zone 6b and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Salisbury Mills?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Salisbury Mills
Spotted lanternfly documented 1 miles from Salisbury Mills, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Salisbury Mills
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Salisbury Mills. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CUMBERLAND FARMS #3166Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- PENNINGS ROSE ACRES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- KELLER AUTO MACHINE SERVICE & PARTSBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- O 806Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- H. PETER STERNUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- STONE HOUSE RESIDENCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- VILLAGE OF WASHINGTONVILLEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- TECTONIC ENGINEERING & SURVEYING CONSULTANTS, P.C.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- STORM KING ART CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- PEA BRIDGE REALTY INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- JOAN O. STERN TRUSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- BENJAMIN N. KETCHAM REVOCABLE TRUSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Salisbury Mills'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 Salisbury Mills.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Salisbury Mills
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Salisbury Mills
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Salisbury Mills, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Salisbury Mills — PFAS (15 sites) and Superfund (14 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Salisbury Mills
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 Salisbury Mills
Everything above resolves to Salisbury Mills as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 319 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 Salisbury Mills Average
Salisbury Mills Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Salisbury Mills
- ●One soil character for all of Salisbury Mills
- ●Frost dates read at Salisbury Mills's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Salisbury Mills's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Salisbury Mills
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Salisbury Mills, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Salisbury Mills averages can't show:
We read public map data around Salisbury Mills — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Salisbury Mills average
How we know this about Salisbury Mills
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 Salisbury Mills’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 Salisbury Mills
When does frost risk typically end in Salisbury Mills?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Salisbury Mills typically lands around Apr 5, 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 Apr 26.
When is the first frost in Salisbury Mills?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Salisbury Mills typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Salisbury Mills?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Salisbury Mills sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 21, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Salisbury Mills?
The federal record around Salisbury Mills runs heavier than most — 1,086 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (649), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Salisbury Mills?
From about Oct 5 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 Nov 4 (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 Nov 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Salisbury Mills's scale — its 6b band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Salisbury Mills'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 Salisbury Mills’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Salisbury Mills's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 319 acres it covers and 1,086 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Salisbury Mills's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Salisbury Mills's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 4 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,086 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Salisbury Mills, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Salisbury Mills's boundary and the 319 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Salisbury Mills's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Salisbury Millslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Salisbury Mills's 319 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 Salisbury Mills's 319 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Salisbury Mills you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 319 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Salisbury Mills-wide figureread your own land →