Peebles, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Peebles, 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 Peebles lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Peebles — the short answer
Peebles, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 215 days between hard freezes, across 777 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~215
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 777 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 Peebles's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Peebles's 215-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Peebles
Each reading below is measured for Peebles itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPeebles runs about 215 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
MeasuredPeebles 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 Peebles is in
Peebles sits in the Interior Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Peebles's own centroid rather than borrowed from Adams County.
What Grows in Peebles
Every plant below cleared Peebles's own zone 6b and its 215-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Peebles?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Peebles
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Peebles. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PEEBLES QUICK MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- GORDLEY'S FILL R UPUnderground Storage Tanks · 800 ft
- OHIO VALLEY SCHOOLS NORTH BUS GARAGEBrownfields · 1000 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR #994Brownfields · 1200 ft
- PEEBLES HIGH SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- 1ST STOP PEEBLES #85Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- RICH OIL #3767Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- MARATHON FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- BOB MALCLOM CHRYSLER-PLYMOUTH DODGE INCBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- PEEBLES 1ST STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- OHIO VALLEY DIESELBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- BJ'S GARAGEBrownfields · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Peebles'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 Peebles.
Total Sites
55
within ~10 miles of Peebles
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
3 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Peebles
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Peebles
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Peebles, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 36 sites within ~10 miles of Peebles. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Peebles
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 Peebles average
Your land is one point inside Peebles
Everything above resolves to Peebles as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 777 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 Peebles Average
Peebles Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Peebles
- ●One soil character for all of Peebles
- ●Frost dates read at Peebles's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Peebles's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Peebles
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Peebles, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Peebles averages can't show:
We read public map data around Peebles — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Peebles
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 Peebles’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 Peebles
When does frost risk typically end in Peebles?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Peebles typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Peebles?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Peebles typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 215 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Peebles?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Peebles sees about 215 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 22, about 180 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Peebles?
The federal record around Peebles shows 55 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (36), 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 Peebles?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Peebles's scale — its 6b band and its 215-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Peebles'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 Peebles’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Peebles's own scale — its own ~215-day season between 28°F freezes, the 777 acres it covers and 55 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Peebles's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Peebles's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 5 and the ~215-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 55 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Peebles, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Peebles's boundary and the 777 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~215-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Peebles's own centroid, the Interior PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Peebles's 777 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Adams County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Adams 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 Adams County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Peebles's 777 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Peebles you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 777 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 Peebles-wide figureread your own land →
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