Medway, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — 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 Medway, 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 Medway 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 Medway — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Medway — the short answer
Medway, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 305 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 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 305 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 Medway's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Medway's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Medway
Each reading below is measured for Medway itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMedway runs about 213 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
MeasuredMedway 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 Medway is in
Medway sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Medway's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clark County.
What Grows in Medway
Every plant below cleared Medway's own zone 6b and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Medway?
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 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 4 — 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 Medway
Spotted lanternfly documented 7 miles from Medway, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Medway
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Medway. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ORPHAN TANKUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- MEDWAY CLEANERSBrownfields · 1100 ft
- AMERITECH SERVICES, INC. L55138Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- DALTON MAINTENANCEBrownfields · 1200 ft
- VACANT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- CL-290Nitrate · 2100 ft
- WILE MOBILE HOME PARKSuperfund · 2100 ft
- CL-280 MIAM NAWQA SUS WELL BVAS-7Nitrate · 2100 ft
- MEDWAY MARINAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- MACDONALDS CRYSTAL LAKES MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- CL-286 MIAM NAWQA LUS WELL BVAS URB-26 MEDWAY, OHNitrate · 0.6 mi
- ABANDONED GAS STATUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Medway'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 Medway.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Medway
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Medway
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Medway, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Medway — Superfund (22 sites) and PFAS (11 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.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Medway
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 Medway average
Your land is one point inside Medway
Everything above resolves to Medway as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 305 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 Medway Average
Medway Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Medway
- ●One soil character for all of Medway
- ●Frost dates read at Medway's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Medway's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Medway
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Medway, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Medway averages can't show:
We read public map data around Medway — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Medway average
How we know this about Medway
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 Medway’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 Medway
When does frost risk typically end in Medway?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Medway 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 Medway?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Medway 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 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Medway?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Medway sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 21, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Medway?
The federal record around Medway runs heavier than most — 866 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (346), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Medway?
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 Medway's scale — its 6b band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Medway'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 Medway’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Medway's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 305 acres it covers and 866 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Medway's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Medway's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 4 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 866 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Medway, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Medway's boundary and the 305 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Medway's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Medwaylydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Medway's 305 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clark County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clark 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 Clark County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Medway's 305 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Medway you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 305 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 Medway-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across OhioMedway sits outside our named growing regions, so Ohio as a whole is its closest context here.
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