Salesville, Ohio, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Salesville, 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 Salesville 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 Salesville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Salesville — the short answer
Salesville, Ohio: USDA zone 6b, about 203 days between hard freezes, across 124 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 31
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~203
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 124 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 Salesville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Salesville's 203-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Salesville
Each reading below is measured for Salesville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSalesville runs about 203 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
MeasuredSalesville 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 Salesville is in
Salesville sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Salesville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Guernsey County.
What Grows in Salesville
Every plant below cleared Salesville's own zone 6b and its 203-day season. Each card opens that plant's Ohio profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Salesville?
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 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 31 — 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 Salesville
Spotted lanternfly documented 29 miles from Salesville, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Salesville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Salesville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HALL'S GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- VALLEY VIEW SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- KM REX DOMINION NOBLE STATIONBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- QUAKER CITY SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- GIBSON CHEVROLET, INC.Underground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- QUAKER CITY ELEMENTARYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- WILLIS TOWNSHIPUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS - SENECAVILLE DAMBrownfields · 4.2 mi
- SPEEDWAY STORE #1017Underground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- NOLL'S ASHLANDUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- WAMPUM HARDWARE CO.Toxics Release Inventory · 5.0 mi
- NEWHART'S SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Salesville'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 Salesville.
Total Sites
63
within ~10 miles of Salesville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Salesville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Salesville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Salesville, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 44 sites within ~10 miles of Salesville. 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 Salesville
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 Salesville average
Your land is one point inside Salesville
Everything above resolves to Salesville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 124 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 Salesville Average
Salesville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Salesville
- ●One soil character for all of Salesville
- ●Frost dates read at Salesville's scale: Apr 11 to Oct 31
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Salesville's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Salesville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Salesville, Ohio — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Salesville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Salesville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Salesville average
How we know this about Salesville
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 Salesville’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 Salesville
When does frost risk typically end in Salesville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Salesville typically lands around Apr 11, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Salesville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Salesville typically arrives around Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 17, so the watching starts about Oct 1 — about 203 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Salesville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Salesville sees about 203 frost-free days — roughly Apr 11 through Oct 31, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 2 to Oct 17, about 168 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Salesville?
The federal record around Salesville shows 63 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (44), 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 Salesville?
From about Oct 1 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 Oct 31 (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 Oct 31. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Salesville's scale — its 6b band and its 203-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Salesville'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 Salesville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Salesville's own scale — its own ~203-day season between 28°F freezes, the 124 acres it covers and 63 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Salesville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Salesville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 11 and Oct 31 and the ~203-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 63 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Salesville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Salesville's boundary and the 124 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~203-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Salesville's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Salesvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Salesville's 124 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Guernsey County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Guernsey 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 Guernsey County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Salesville's 124 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Salesville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 124 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 Salesville-wide figureread your own land →
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