Tully, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect cabbage, cranberry, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Tully, 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 Tully lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Tully — the short answer
Tully, New York: USDA zone 5b, about 178 days between hard freezes, across 468 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 5b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~178
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 468 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 5b is Tully's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tully's 178-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tully
Each reading below is measured for Tully itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTully runs about 178 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
MeasuredTully sits in USDA hardiness zone 5b.
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 Tully is in
Tully sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Tully's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Onondaga County is mostly Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Tully
Every plant below cleared Tully's own zone 5b and its 178-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tully?
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 30; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 22 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Tully
Spotted lanternfly documented 18 miles from Tully, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Tully
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tully. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ELM ST CAFE / FORMER ARCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- SUNY/CESFUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- TULLY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- AGWAY FEED STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- TULLY AGWAY CO-OP, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- OD1276Nitrate · 1500 ft
- TOWN OF TULLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- BIELING PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- SPOT OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- OD 8Nitrate · 2100 ft
- JACK MCNERNEY CHEVROLET INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #6404Brownfields · 2500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tully'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 Tully.
Total Sites
172
within ~10 miles of Tully
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tully
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tully
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tully, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Tully — CAFO (27 sites) and Nitrate (62 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Tully
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 Tully average
Your land is one point inside Tully
Everything above resolves to Tully as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 468 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 Tully Average
Tully Average
- ●USDA Zones 5b, averaged across Tully
- ●One soil character for all of Tully
- ●Frost dates read at Tully's scale: Apr 27 to Oct 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tully's 5b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tully
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tully, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tully averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tully — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tully average
How we know this about Tully
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 Tully’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 Tully
When does frost risk typically end in Tully?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tully typically lands around Apr 27, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Tully?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tully typically arrives around Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 8, so the watching starts about Sep 22 — about 178 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tully?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tully sees about 178 frost-free days — roughly Apr 27 through Oct 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 18 to Oct 8, about 143 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tully?
The federal record around Tully shows 172 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (62), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Tully?
From about Sep 22 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tully's scale — its 5b band and its 178-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tully'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 Tully’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Tully's own scale — its own ~178-day season between 28°F freezes, the 468 acres it covers and 172 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tully's own USDA hardiness band, zones 5bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tully's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 27 and Oct 22 and the ~178-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 172 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tully, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tully's boundary and the 468 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 5b and a ~178-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Tully sits in the Northern Allegheny Plateau — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Tullylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tully's 468 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 Tully's 468 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tully you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 468 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Tully-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across New YorkTully sits outside our named growing regions, so New York as a whole is its closest context here.