Ramblewood, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Ramblewood, 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 Ramblewood lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Ramblewood — the short answer
Ramblewood, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 199 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~199
- 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 6b is Ramblewood's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Ramblewood's 199-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Ramblewood
Each reading below is measured for Ramblewood itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRamblewood runs about 199 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
MeasuredRamblewood 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 Ramblewood is in
Ramblewood sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Ramblewood's own centroid rather than borrowed from Centre County.
What Grows in Ramblewood
Every plant below cleared Ramblewood's own zone 6b and its 199-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Ramblewood?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 Nov 1 — 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 Ramblewood
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Ramblewood, first recorded 2022. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Ramblewood
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Ramblewood. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CE 536Nitrate · 0.9 mi
- ROCK SPRINGS AGRICULATURE RESEARCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- ALTOONA GAS & OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- CE 544Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- CE 118 Centre County Observation WellNitrate · 2.5 mi
- KLINES BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- AT&T PINE GROVE MILLS FACUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- PINE GROVE MILLS TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- H & K PROP INVESTMENTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- CE 402Nitrate · 3.1 mi
- HU 350Nitrate · 3.2 mi
- HU 275Nitrate · 3.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Ramblewood'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 Ramblewood.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Ramblewood
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Ramblewood
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Ramblewood, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Ramblewood — CAFO (5 sites) and PFAS (3 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Ramblewood
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 Ramblewood average
Your land is one point inside Ramblewood
Everything above resolves to Ramblewood 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 Ramblewood Average
Ramblewood Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Ramblewood
- ●One soil character for all of Ramblewood
- ●Frost dates read at Ramblewood's scale: Apr 16 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Ramblewood's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Ramblewood
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Ramblewood, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Ramblewood averages can't show:
We read public map data around Ramblewood — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Ramblewood average
How we know this about Ramblewood
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 Ramblewood’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 Ramblewood
When does frost risk typically end in Ramblewood?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Ramblewood 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 Ramblewood?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Ramblewood typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 199 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Ramblewood?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Ramblewood sees about 199 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 18, about 164 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Ramblewood?
The federal record around Ramblewood is a meaningful one — 315 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (134), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.9 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 Ramblewood?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Ramblewood's scale — its 6b band and its 199-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Ramblewood'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 Ramblewood’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Ramblewood's own scale — its own ~199-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,983 acres it covers and 315 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Ramblewood's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Ramblewood's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Nov 1 and the ~199-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 315 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Ramblewood, the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Ramblewood's boundary and the 1,983 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~199-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Ramblewood's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Ramblewoodlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Ramblewood's 1,983 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Centre County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Centre 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 Centre County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Ramblewood's 1,983 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Ramblewood you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,983 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.9 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 Ramblewood-wide figureread your own land →