Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Geneva-on-the-Lake, 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 Geneva-on-the-Lake lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Geneva-on-the-Lake — the short answer
Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 236 days between hard freezes, across 2K 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 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~236
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Geneva-on-the-Lake's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Geneva-on-the-Lake's 236-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Geneva-on-the-Lake
Each reading below is measured for Geneva-on-the-Lake itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGeneva-on-the-Lake runs about 236 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
MeasuredGeneva-on-the-Lake 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 Geneva-on-the-Lake is in
Geneva-on-the-Lake sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Geneva-on-the-Lake's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Ashtabula County is mostly Erie Drift Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Geneva-on-the-Lake
Every plant below cleared Geneva-on-the-Lake's own zone 6b and its 236-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Geneva-on-the-Lake?
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 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 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Geneva-on-the-Lake
Spotted lanternfly documented 30 miles from Geneva-on-the-Lake, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Geneva-on-the-Lake
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Geneva-on-the-Lake. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- VILLAGE OF GENEVA ON THE LAKEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- PHILLIPS IMPORTS INCBrownfields · 1900 ft
- SPRING WOOD PRODUCTS, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- ODNR GENEVA STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- INDIAN CREEK RV & CAMPGROUND RESORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- ELKEM METALS COMPANYBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- ELKEM METALS COMPANYToxics Release Inventory · 2.2 mi
- OHIO DEPT OF TRANSPORTATION DIST 12Brownfields · 2.8 mi
- PERFECT MULCHBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- CITY OF GENEVAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- PRECISION LUBE EXPRESS INCBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Geneva-on-the-Lake'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 Geneva-on-the-Lake.
Total Sites
357
within ~10 miles of Geneva-on-the-Lake
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
12 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Geneva-on-the-Lake
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Geneva-on-the-Lake
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Geneva-on-the-Lake, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Geneva-on-the-Lake — Superfund (12 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (36 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Geneva-on-the-Lake
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 Geneva-on-the-Lake average
Your land is one point inside Geneva-on-the-Lake
Everything above resolves to Geneva-on-the-Lake as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Geneva-on-the-Lake Average
Geneva-on-the-Lake Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Geneva-on-the-Lake
- ●One soil character for all of Geneva-on-the-Lake
- ●Frost dates read at Geneva-on-the-Lake's scale: Apr 3 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Geneva-on-the-Lake's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Geneva-on-the-Lake
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Geneva-on-the-Lake averages can't show:
We read public map data around Geneva-on-the-Lake — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Geneva-on-the-Lake average
How we know this about Geneva-on-the-Lake
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 Geneva-on-the-Lake’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 Geneva-on-the-Lake
When does frost risk typically end in Geneva-on-the-Lake?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Geneva-on-the-Lake 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 Geneva-on-the-Lake?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Geneva-on-the-Lake typically arrives around Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 11, so the watching starts about Oct 26 — about 236 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Geneva-on-the-Lake?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Geneva-on-the-Lake sees about 236 frost-free days — roughly Apr 3 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 24 to Nov 11, about 201 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Geneva-on-the-Lake?
The federal record around Geneva-on-the-Lake is a meaningful one — 357 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (186), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Geneva-on-the-Lake?
From about Oct 26 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 25 (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 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Geneva-on-the-Lake's scale — its 6b band and its 236-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Geneva-on-the-Lake'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 Geneva-on-the-Lake’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Geneva-on-the-Lake's own scale — its own ~236-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,529 acres it covers and 357 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Geneva-on-the-Lake's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Geneva-on-the-Lake's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 3 and Nov 25 and the ~236-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 357 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Geneva-on-the-Lake, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Geneva-on-the-Lake's boundary and the 1,529 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~236-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Geneva-on-the-Lake sits in the Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Geneva-on-the-Lakelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Geneva-on-the-Lake's 1,529 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ashtabula County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ashtabula 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 Ashtabula County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Geneva-on-the-Lake's 1,529 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Geneva-on-the-Lake you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,529 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Geneva-on-the-Lake-wide figureread your own land →