Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Pymatuning Central, 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 Pymatuning Central 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 Pymatuning Central — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Pymatuning Central — the short answer
Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6a, about 195 days between hard freezes, across 10K 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)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~195
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 10K 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 Pymatuning Central's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pymatuning Central's 195-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pymatuning Central
Each reading below is measured for Pymatuning Central itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPymatuning Central runs about 195 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
MeasuredPymatuning Central 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 Pymatuning Central is in
Pymatuning Central sits in the Erie Drift Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pymatuning Central's own centroid rather than borrowed from Crawford County.
What Grows in Pymatuning Central
Every plant below cleared Pymatuning Central's own zone 6a and its 195-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pymatuning Central?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. 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 Nov 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Late in the year the fall bench takes over — quick greens, radishes, and garlic that repays you next summer.
Documented around Pymatuning Central
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Pymatuning Central, first recorded 2023. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Pymatuning Central
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pymatuning Central. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- BUCKEYE ALUMINUM FOUNDRY INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.0 mi
- DAVE'S CUSTOM BODY & PAINTINGBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- POFFS PLACEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PLE FARM SITEBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- RPK INC THE LILBITUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- NORTH SHENANGO TWP CRAWFORD CNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- SOUTH SHENANGO TWP CRAWFORD CNTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- PITT ECOLOGY LABORATORYBrownfields · 2.7 mi
- RK OIL CO INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- CW 413 Crawford County Observation WellNitrate · 3.4 mi
- CW 413Nitrate · 3.4 mi
- A & M CUNNINGHAM TRUCKING LLCBrownfields · 4.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pymatuning Central'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 Pymatuning Central.
Total Sites
135
within ~10 miles of Pymatuning Central
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pymatuning Central
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pymatuning Central
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pymatuning Central, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pymatuning Central — Superfund (4 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (10 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Pymatuning Central
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 Pymatuning Central average
Your land is one point inside Pymatuning Central
Everything above resolves to Pymatuning Central as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 10K 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 Pymatuning Central Average
Pymatuning Central Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Pymatuning Central
- ●One soil character for all of Pymatuning Central
- ●Frost dates read at Pymatuning Central's scale: Apr 21 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pymatuning Central's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pymatuning Central
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pymatuning Central, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pymatuning Central averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pymatuning Central — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pymatuning Central average
How we know this about Pymatuning Central
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 Pymatuning Central’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 Pymatuning Central
When does frost risk typically end in Pymatuning Central?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pymatuning Central 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 Pymatuning Central?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pymatuning Central typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 195 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pymatuning Central?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pymatuning Central sees about 195 frost-free days — roughly Apr 21 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 12 to Oct 19, about 160 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pymatuning Central?
The federal record around Pymatuning Central is a meaningful one — 135 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (74), the nearest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.0 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 Pymatuning Central?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pymatuning Central's scale — its 6a band and its 195-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pymatuning Central'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 Pymatuning Central’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Pymatuning Central's own scale — its own ~195-day season between 28°F freezes, the 10,476 acres it covers and 135 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pymatuning Central's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pymatuning Central's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 21 and Nov 2 and the ~195-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 135 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pymatuning Central, the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pymatuning Central's boundary and the 10,476 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~195-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pymatuning Central's own centroid, the Erie Drift PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Pymatuning Centrallydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pymatuning Central's 10,476 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Crawford County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Crawford 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 Crawford County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pymatuning Central's 10,476 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pymatuning Central you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 10,476 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Toxics Release Inventory record about 1.0 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 Pymatuning Central-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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