Daisytown, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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 Daisytown, 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 Daisytown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Daisytown — the short answer
Daisytown, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 197 days between hard freezes, across 149 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- 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
- ~197
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 149 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 Daisytown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Daisytown's 197-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Daisytown
Each reading below is measured for Daisytown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDaisytown runs about 197 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
MeasuredDaisytown 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 Daisytown is in
Daisytown sits in the Central Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Daisytown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Cambria County.
What Grows in Daisytown
Every plant below cleared Daisytown's own zone 6a and its 197-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Daisytown?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 16 (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. As the window narrows, the plantings just get faster — fall brassicas, then greens, then garlic to finish.
Documented around Daisytown
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Daisytown, first recorded 2020. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Daisytown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Daisytown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SR 8016-02B SR 8016 OVER SR 3016 AND HORNER STBrownfields · 2400 ft
- HUNT OIL INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- TEAM CHEVROLET INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR STORE NO 7337Brownfields · 0.5 mi
- BP OIL COMPANY 09132Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- SHEETZ INC 78Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CONEMAUGH VALLEY MAINT GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- BEDFORD STREET BPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- SUNOCO 0364 1149Brownfields · 0.6 mi
- SUNOCO 0364 1149Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- HORNER STREET CITGOUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- JOHNSTOWN BORO PROPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Daisytown'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 Daisytown.
Total Sites
600
within ~10 miles of Daisytown
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
24 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Daisytown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Daisytown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Daisytown, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 6 sites within ~10 miles of Daisytown. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Daisytown
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 Daisytown average
Your land is one point inside Daisytown
Everything above resolves to Daisytown as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 149 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 Daisytown Average
Daisytown Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Daisytown
- ●One soil character for all of Daisytown
- ●Frost dates read at Daisytown's scale: Apr 16 to Oct 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Daisytown's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Daisytown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Daisytown, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Daisytown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Daisytown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Daisytown average
How we know this about Daisytown
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 Daisytown’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 Daisytown
When does frost risk typically end in Daisytown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Daisytown typically lands around Apr 16, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Daisytown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Daisytown 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 197 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Daisytown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Daisytown sees about 197 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Oct 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 16, about 162 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Daisytown?
The federal record around Daisytown is a meaningful one — 600 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (313), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.5 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 Daisytown?
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 Daisytown's scale — its 6a band and its 197-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Daisytown'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 Daisytown’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Daisytown's own scale — its own ~197-day season between 28°F freezes, the 149 acres it covers and 600 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Daisytown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Daisytown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Oct 30 and the ~197-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 600 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Daisytown, the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Daisytown's boundary and the 149 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~197-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Daisytown's own centroid, the Central AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Daisytownlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Daisytown's 149 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Cambria County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Cambria 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 Cambria County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Daisytown's 149 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Daisytown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 149 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.5 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 Daisytown-wide figureread your own land →
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