Scotts Corners, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Scotts Corners, 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 Scotts Corners lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Scotts Corners — the short answer
Scotts Corners, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 216 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 3
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~216
- 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 Scotts Corners's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Scotts Corners's 216-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Scotts Corners
Each reading below is measured for Scotts Corners itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredScotts Corners runs about 216 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
MeasuredScotts Corners 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 Scotts Corners is in
Scotts Corners sits in the Northeastern Coastal Zone — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Scotts Corners's own centroid rather than borrowed from Westchester County.
What Grows in Scotts Corners
Every plant below cleared Scotts Corners's own zone 6b and its 216-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Scotts Corners?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Scotts Corners
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Scotts Corners, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Scotts Corners
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Scotts Corners. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DYNAX CORPORATIONBrownfields · 1200 ft
- POUND RIDGE CLEANERSBrownfields · 1300 ft
- VALUCLEANBrownfields · 2000 ft
- WE2103Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- CT-NCN 39Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- POUND RIDGE TOWN OF POOL PUMPROOMBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- CT-NCN 36Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- GENTLEMAN'S FARMUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- MR. ALAN TISHMANUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- WE5230Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- NEW ENGLAND TANK SERVICES INCBrownfields · 2.8 mi
- CANAAN FIRE DISTRICT WPCFUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Scotts Corners'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 Scotts Corners.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Scotts Corners
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Scotts Corners
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Scotts Corners, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Scotts Corners — Superfund (18 sites) and PFAS (11 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Scotts Corners
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 Scotts Corners average
Your land is one point inside Scotts Corners
Everything above resolves to Scotts Corners 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 Scotts Corners Average
Scotts Corners Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Scotts Corners
- ●One soil character for all of Scotts Corners
- ●Frost dates read at Scotts Corners's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Scotts Corners's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Scotts Corners
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Scotts Corners, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Scotts Corners averages can't show:
We read public map data around Scotts Corners — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Scotts Corners average
How we know this about Scotts Corners
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 Scotts Corners’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 Scotts Corners
When does frost risk typically end in Scotts Corners?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Scotts Corners typically lands around Apr 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Scotts Corners?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Scotts Corners typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 216 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Scotts Corners?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Scotts Corners sees about 216 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Oct 22, about 181 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Scotts Corners?
The federal record around Scotts Corners runs heavier than most — 1,316 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (619), the nearest Brownfields 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 Scotts Corners?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Scotts Corners's scale — its 6b band and its 216-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Scotts Corners'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 Scotts Corners’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Scotts Corners's own scale — its own ~216-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,135 acres it covers and 1,316 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Scotts Corners's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Scotts Corners's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 5 and the ~216-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 1,316 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Scotts Corners, the closest Brownfields record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Scotts Corners's boundary and the 1,135 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~216-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Scotts Corners's own centroid, the Northeastern Coastal ZoneUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Scotts Cornerslydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Scotts Corners's 1,135 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Westchester County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Westchester 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 Westchester County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Scotts Corners's 1,135 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Scotts Corners you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,135 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Scotts Corners-wide figureread your own land →
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