Barkeyville, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 Barkeyville, 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 Barkeyville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Barkeyville — the short answer
Barkeyville, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 192 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 30
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~192
- 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 6a is Barkeyville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Barkeyville's 192-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Barkeyville
Each reading below is measured for Barkeyville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBarkeyville runs about 192 days between hard freezes — a moderate growing season.
There is room for the full run of cool-season crops plus a warm-season main crop, but the calendar is tight enough that a late spring or early fall frost still decides how much finishes.
Time warm-season transplants to your last hard freeze, and a few weeks of season extension turns a near-miss harvest into a sure one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBarkeyville 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 Barkeyville is in
Barkeyville sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Barkeyville's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Venango County is mostly North Central Appalachians. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Barkeyville
Every plant below cleared Barkeyville's own zone 6a and its 192-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Barkeyville?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 30 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Barkeyville
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Barkeyville, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Barkeyville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Barkeyville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KWIK FILL M209Brownfields · 1800 ft
- KWIK FILL M0209Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- RICHS FUEL STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- BARKEYVILLE TRAVEL CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- WARD TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- SPEEDWAY 2921Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- FRANKS TRUCK WASHBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- SHEETZ 859Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- SPEEDWAY 2921Brownfields · 0.7 mi
- SUMMIT OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- GAYLORD MATHEWS TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- EVERETT MCBRIDEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Barkeyville'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 Barkeyville.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Barkeyville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Barkeyville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Barkeyville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 88 sites within ~10 miles of Barkeyville. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Barkeyville
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 Barkeyville
Everything above resolves to Barkeyville 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 Barkeyville Average
Barkeyville Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Barkeyville
- ●One soil character for all of Barkeyville
- ●Frost dates read at Barkeyville's scale: Apr 21 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Barkeyville's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Barkeyville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Barkeyville, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Barkeyville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Barkeyville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Barkeyville average
How we know this about Barkeyville
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 Barkeyville’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 Barkeyville
When does frost risk typically end in Barkeyville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Barkeyville typically lands around Apr 21, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Barkeyville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Barkeyville typically arrives around Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 16, so the watching starts about Sep 30 — about 192 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Barkeyville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Barkeyville sees about 192 frost-free days — roughly Apr 21 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 12 to Oct 16, about 157 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Barkeyville?
The federal record around Barkeyville is a meaningful one — 257 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (106), the nearest Brownfields 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 Barkeyville?
From about Sep 30 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Barkeyville's scale — its 6a band and its 192-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Barkeyville'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 Barkeyville’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Barkeyville's own scale — its own ~192-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,126 acres it covers and 257 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Barkeyville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Barkeyville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 21 and Oct 30 and the ~192-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 257 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Barkeyville, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Barkeyville's boundary and the 2,126 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~192-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Barkeyville sits in the Erie Drift Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Barkeyvillelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Barkeyville's 2,126 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Venango County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Venango County
- The growing challenges every Pennsylvania grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Pennsylvania
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Venango County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Barkeyville's 2,126 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Barkeyville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,126 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Barkeyville-wide figureread your own land →
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