Schubert, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, 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 Schubert, 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 Schubert lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Schubert — the short answer
Schubert, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 7a, about 210 days between hard freezes, across 379 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 5
- 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
- ~210
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 379 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 7a is Schubert's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Schubert's 210-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Schubert
Each reading below is measured for Schubert itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSchubert runs about 210 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
MeasuredSchubert sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Schubert is in
Schubert sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Schubert's own centroid rather than borrowed from Berks County.
What Grows in Schubert
Every plant below cleared Schubert's own zone 7a and its 210-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Schubert?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 5 (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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Schubert
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Schubert, first recorded 2017. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Schubert
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Schubert. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SHUBERTS BESTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- ADAM MARTINS EGG RANCH CAFOCAFO · 1.6 mi
- MIDWAY EXXON TRAVEL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- BARRY BASHOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- WC MCQUAIDEUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- BE 130Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- DUTCH KITCHEN MOBILUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- REBERS EXCAVATING & HAULINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- SECHLERS POULTRY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- POST PRECISION CASTINGS INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.9 mi
- POST PRECISION CASTINGS INCBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- POWER GAS & DIESELUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Schubert'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 Schubert.
Total Sites
502
within ~10 miles of Schubert
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
22 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Schubert
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Schubert
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Schubert, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Schubert — CAFO (50 sites) and Nitrate (140 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Schubert
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 Schubert
Everything above resolves to Schubert as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 379 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 Schubert Average
Schubert Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Schubert
- ●One soil character for all of Schubert
- ●Frost dates read at Schubert's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Schubert's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Schubert
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Schubert, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Schubert averages can't show:
We read public map data around Schubert — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Schubert average
How we know this about Schubert
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 Schubert’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 Schubert
When does frost risk typically end in Schubert?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Schubert typically lands around Apr 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Schubert?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Schubert 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 210 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Schubert?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Schubert sees about 210 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 18, about 175 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Schubert?
The federal record around Schubert is a meaningful one — 502 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (219), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Schubert?
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 Schubert's scale — its 7a band and its 210-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Schubert'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 Schubert’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Schubert's own scale — its own ~210-day season between 28°F freezes, the 379 acres it covers and 502 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Schubert's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Schubert's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 1 and the ~210-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 502 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Schubert, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Schubert's boundary and the 379 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~210-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Schubert's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Schubertlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Schubert's 379 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Berks County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Berks 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 Berks County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Schubert's 379 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Schubert you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 379 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Schubert-wide figureread your own land →
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