Weedsport, New York, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Weedsport, 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 Weedsport lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Weedsport — the short answer
Weedsport, New York: USDA zone 6a, about 205 days between hard freezes, across 625 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- 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
- ~205
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 625 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 6a is Weedsport's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Weedsport's 205-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Weedsport
Each reading below is measured for Weedsport itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredWeedsport runs about 205 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
MeasuredWeedsport sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Weedsport is in
Weedsport sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Weedsport's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cayuga County.
What Grows in Weedsport
Every plant below cleared Weedsport's own zone 6a and its 205-day season. Each card opens that plant's New York profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Weedsport?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (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. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
Documented around Weedsport
Spotted lanternfly documented 23 miles from Weedsport, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Weedsport
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Weedsport. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #8827Brownfields · 200 ft
- FORMER KEYBANKUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- KWIK FILL M0121-022Brownfields · 1200 ft
- KWIK-FILL M0121-022Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BILL MAY'S SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- S G & S FARMS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- WEEDSPORT CENTRAL SCHOOLBrownfields · 1600 ft
- WEEDSPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBrownfields · 1700 ft
- PATRIOT TANK LINES INCBrownfields · 2100 ft
- WEEDSPORT CENTRAL SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- KINNEY DRUGS STORE #75Brownfields · 2500 ft
- FASTRAC MARKET #210Underground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Weedsport'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 Weedsport.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Weedsport
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Weedsport
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Weedsport, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Weedsport — CAFO (14 sites) and Superfund (5 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Weedsport
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 Weedsport
Everything above resolves to Weedsport as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 625 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 Weedsport Average
Weedsport Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Weedsport
- ●One soil character for all of Weedsport
- ●Frost dates read at Weedsport's scale: Apr 13 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Weedsport's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Weedsport
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Weedsport, New York — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Weedsport — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Weedsport
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 Weedsport’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 Weedsport
When does frost risk typically end in Weedsport?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Weedsport typically lands around Apr 13, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Weedsport?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Weedsport 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 205 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Weedsport?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Weedsport sees about 205 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 21, about 170 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Weedsport?
The federal record around Weedsport is a meaningful one — 380 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (187), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile 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 Weedsport?
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 Weedsport's scale — its 6a band and its 205-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Weedsport'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 Weedsport’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Weedsport's own scale — its own ~205-day season between 28°F freezes, the 625 acres it covers and 380 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Weedsport's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Weedsport's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Nov 4 and the ~205-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 380 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Weedsport, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Weedsport's boundary and the 625 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~205-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Weedsport's own centroid, the Eastern Great Lakes LowlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Weedsportlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Weedsport's 625 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cayuga County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cayuga 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 Cayuga County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Weedsport's 625 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Weedsport you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 625 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Weedsport-wide figureread your own land →
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