Bloomville, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Bloomville, 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 Bloomville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Bloomville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Bloomville — the short answer
Bloomville, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 201 days between hard freezes, across 386 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~201
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 386 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 Bloomville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bloomville's 201-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bloomville
Each reading below is measured for Bloomville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBloomville runs about 201 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
MeasuredBloomville 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 Bloomville is in
Bloomville sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bloomville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Seneca County is mostly Huron/Erie Lake Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Bloomville
Every plant below cleared Bloomville's own zone 6a and its 201-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bloomville?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — 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 Bloomville
Survey cells within 31 miles of Bloomville checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 31 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bloomville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bloomville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TJ''''s DRIVE THRUUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- HALCOMB'S IGAUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- HORN'S CROP SERVICE CENTER INCToxics Release Inventory · 1300 ft
- FRANKERT'S GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- COUNTRY STAR COOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- LYKENS TOWNSHIPUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- COLUMBUS PUBLIC SCHOOLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- REPUBLIC SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
- MICKEY MART REPUBLIC #56Underground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- CARN FERTILIZER & GRAIN INCBrownfields · 5.2 mi
- AL'S CONVENIENCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- KROGER FUEL CTR #N594Underground Storage Tanks · 5.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bloomville'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 Bloomville.
Total Sites
91
within ~10 miles of Bloomville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bloomville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bloomville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bloomville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Bloomville — Toxics Release Inventory (6 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (60 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Bloomville
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 Bloomville average
Your land is one point inside Bloomville
Everything above resolves to Bloomville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 386 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 Bloomville Average
Bloomville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Bloomville
- ●One soil character for all of Bloomville
- ●Frost dates read at Bloomville's scale: Apr 14 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bloomville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bloomville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bloomville, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bloomville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bloomville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bloomville average
How we know this about Bloomville
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 Bloomville’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 Bloomville
When does frost risk typically end in Bloomville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bloomville typically lands around Apr 14, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Bloomville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bloomville typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 201 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bloomville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bloomville sees about 201 frost-free days — roughly Apr 14 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 5 to Oct 18, about 166 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bloomville?
The federal record around Bloomville is a meaningful one — 91 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (60), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles 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 Bloomville?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bloomville's scale — its 6a band and its 201-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bloomville'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 Bloomville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bloomville's own scale — its own ~201-day season between 28°F freezes, the 386 acres it covers and 91 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bloomville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bloomville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 14 and Nov 1 and the ~201-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 91 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bloomville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bloomville's boundary and the 386 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~201-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Bloomville sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Bloomville checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bloomville's 386 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Seneca County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Seneca County
- The growing challenges every Ohio grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Ohio
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Seneca County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bloomville's 386 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bloomville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 386 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Bloomville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioBloomville sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.