Eddington, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Eddington, 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 Eddington 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 Eddington — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Eddington — the short answer
Eddington, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 7b, about 242 days between hard freezes, across 354 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~242
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 354 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 7b is Eddington's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eddington's 242-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eddington
Each reading below is measured for Eddington itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEddington runs about 242 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
MeasuredEddington sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Eddington is in
Eddington sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Eddington's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Bucks County is mostly Northern Piedmont. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Eddington
Every plant below cleared Eddington's own zone 7b and its 242-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eddington?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 20 — 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 Eddington
Spotted lanternfly documented 0 miles from Eddington, first recorded 2017. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Eddington
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eddington. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- EDDINGTON CTL OFCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- FRANKS AMOCOBrownfields · 1600 ft
- CORNWELL HEIGHTS BP AMOCO STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- SUNOCO 0363 3955Underground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- SUNOCO SRVC STATION #0363-3955Brownfields · 1800 ft
- DE LA SALLE VOCATIONAL SCHBrownfields · 1800 ft
- MOORES AUTO CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- CARSTARBrownfields · 1900 ft
- COLOR PRODUCTS INCBrownfields · 1900 ft
- BENSALEM AUTO SALESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- HAL JUFTES AUTO SVCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- EDDINGTON SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eddington'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 Eddington.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Eddington
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eddington
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Eddington, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 50 sites within ~10 miles of Eddington. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Eddington
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 Eddington average
Your land is one point inside Eddington
Everything above resolves to Eddington as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 354 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 Eddington Average
Eddington Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Eddington
- ●One soil character for all of Eddington
- ●Frost dates read at Eddington's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eddington's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eddington
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eddington, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Eddington averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eddington — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eddington average
How we know this about Eddington
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 Eddington’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 Eddington
When does frost risk typically end in Eddington?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eddington typically lands around Mar 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Eddington?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eddington typically arrives around Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 6, so the watching starts about Oct 21 — about 242 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eddington?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eddington sees about 242 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Nov 6, about 207 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eddington?
The federal record around Eddington runs heavier than most — 3,859 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,881), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Eddington?
From about Oct 21 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Eddington's scale — its 7b band and its 242-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eddington'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 Eddington’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Eddington's own scale — its own ~242-day season between 28°F freezes, the 354 acres it covers and 3,859 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eddington's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Eddington's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 20 and the ~242-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 3,859 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eddington, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eddington's boundary and the 354 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~242-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Eddington sits in the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Eddingtonlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eddington's 354 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bucks County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bucks 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 Bucks County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eddington's 354 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eddington you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 354 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Eddington-wide figureread your own land →
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