South Blooming Grove, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 South Blooming Grove, 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 South Blooming Grove lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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South Blooming Grove — the short answer
South Blooming Grove, New York: USDA zone 6b, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 3K 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 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K 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 South Blooming Grove's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against South Blooming Grove's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in South Blooming Grove
Each reading below is measured for South Blooming Grove itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSouth Blooming Grove runs about 215 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
MeasuredSouth Blooming Grove 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 South Blooming Grove is in
South Blooming Grove sits in the Northeastern Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northern Forests. That is read at South Blooming Grove's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Orange County is mostly Ridge and Valley. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in South Blooming Grove
Every plant below cleared South Blooming Grove's own zone 6b and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in South Blooming Grove?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. 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 6 — 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 South Blooming Grove
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from South Blooming Grove, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near South Blooming Grove
Closest first, within ~10 miles of South Blooming Grove. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SUNOCO SERVICE STATION FORMERLYBrownfields · 0.5 mi
- JAI PAUANPUTRA, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- O 801Nitrate · 0.8 mi
- O 802Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- O1643Nitrate · 1.1 mi
- BRUCE'S GULF STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- O1901Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- KAYE KLEANERSBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- O 803Nitrate · 1.6 mi
- O 804Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- O1642Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- MARY DEVLINUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from South Blooming Grove'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 South Blooming Grove.
Total Sites
665
within ~10 miles of South Blooming Grove
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of South Blooming Grove
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of South Blooming Grove
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around South Blooming Grove, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 12 sites within ~10 miles of South Blooming Grove. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in South Blooming Grove
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 South Blooming Grove average
Your land is one point inside South Blooming Grove
Everything above resolves to South Blooming Grove as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 South Blooming Grove Average
South Blooming Grove Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across South Blooming Grove
- ●One soil character for all of South Blooming Grove
- ●Frost dates read at South Blooming Grove's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not South Blooming Grove's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in South Blooming Grove
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in South Blooming Grove, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that South Blooming Grove averages can't show:
We read public map data around South Blooming Grove — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the South Blooming Grove average
How we know this about South Blooming Grove
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 South Blooming Grove’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 South Blooming Grove
When does frost risk typically end in South Blooming Grove?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in South Blooming Grove 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 South Blooming Grove?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in South Blooming Grove typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in South Blooming Grove?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, South Blooming Grove sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 23, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in South Blooming Grove?
The federal record around South Blooming Grove runs heavier than most — 665 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (362), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.5 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 South Blooming Grove?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at South Blooming Grove's scale — its 6b band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of South Blooming Grove'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 South Blooming Grove’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at South Blooming Grove's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,993 acres it covers and 665 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- South Blooming Grove's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- South Blooming Grove's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 6 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 665 documented contamination sites on the federal record near South Blooming Grove, the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- South Blooming Grove's boundary and the 2,993 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- South Blooming Grove sits in the Northeastern Highlands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of South Blooming Grovelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so South Blooming Grove's 2,993 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 South Blooming Grove's 2,993 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of South Blooming Grove you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,993 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 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 South Blooming Grove-wide figureread your own land →