New Weston, Ohio, 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.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in New Weston, 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 New Weston lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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New Weston — the short answer
New Weston, Ohio: USDA zone 6a, about 209 days between hard freezes, across 164 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~209
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 164 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 New Weston's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Weston's 209-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Weston
Each reading below is measured for New Weston itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Weston runs about 209 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
MeasuredNew Weston 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 New Weston is in
New Weston sits in the Eastern Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Weston's own centroid rather than borrowed from Darke County.
What Grows in New Weston
Every plant below cleared New Weston's own zone 6a and its 209-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Weston?
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 10; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 7 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — 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 New Weston
Survey cells within 31 miles of New Weston checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 50 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near New Weston
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Weston. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- FORMER WALLS ASPHALT COUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- AT&TUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- HIERHOLSER GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- KENNETH WEITZELUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- PAK-A-SAK #38Underground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- STUCKE FARMS, IONC.Underground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- HAPPY CORNER GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- GAVIT PAVING, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- SMITH CHEVROLETUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- NIEKAMP MARATHONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- VILLAGE OF ST HENRYUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- TRU-EDGE GRINDING INCBrownfields · 5.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Weston'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 New Weston.
Total Sites
84
within ~10 miles of New Weston
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Weston
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Weston
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Weston, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of New Weston — Toxics Release Inventory (6 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (54 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 New Weston
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 New Weston
Everything above resolves to New Weston as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 164 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 New Weston Average
New Weston Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across New Weston
- ●One soil character for all of New Weston
- ●Frost dates read at New Weston's scale: Apr 7 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Weston's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Weston
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Weston, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Weston averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Weston — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Weston average
How we know this about New Weston
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 New Weston’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 New Weston
When does frost risk typically end in New Weston?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Weston typically lands around Apr 7, 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 28.
When is the first frost in New Weston?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Weston typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 209 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Weston?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Weston sees about 209 frost-free days — roughly Apr 7 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 28 to Oct 19, about 174 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Weston?
The federal record around New Weston shows 84 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (54), 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 New Weston?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Weston's scale — its 6a band and its 209-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Weston'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 New Weston’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at New Weston's own scale — its own ~209-day season between 28°F freezes, the 164 acres it covers and 84 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Weston's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Weston's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 7 and Nov 2 and the ~209-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 84 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Weston, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Weston's boundary and the 164 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~209-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Weston's own centroid, the Eastern Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around New Weston 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 New Weston's 164 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Darke County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Darke 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 Darke County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Weston's 164 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Weston you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 164 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 New Weston-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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