Table Rock, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Table Rock, 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 Table Rock 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 Table Rock — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Table Rock — the short answer
Table Rock, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 7a, about 214 days between hard freezes, across 381 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 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~214
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 381 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 Table Rock's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Table Rock's 214-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Table Rock
Each reading below is measured for Table Rock itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTable Rock runs about 214 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
MeasuredTable Rock 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 Table Rock is in
Table Rock sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Table Rock's own centroid rather than borrowed from Adams County.
What Grows in Table Rock
Every plant below cleared Table Rock's own zone 7a and its 214-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Table Rock?
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 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 5 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Table Rock
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Table Rock, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Table Rock
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Table Rock. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SHRIVERS CORNER GROUNDWATER REMED SITESuperfund · 1.0 mi
- SHRIVERS CORNER GROUNDWATER REMED SITEBrownfields · 1.0 mi
- LAWRENCE E WILKINSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- MCDANNELL OIL BULK PLTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- BIGLERVILLE WWTPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- HARRY L REEVERUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- AGWAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- T & T TRUCKINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- RF TRUESDELL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- FAMILY DOLLAR STORE NO 8792Brownfields · 1.9 mi
- DAN REDDINGToxics Release Inventory · 1.9 mi
- JANES MKTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Table Rock'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 Table Rock.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Table Rock
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Table Rock
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Table Rock, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Table Rock — CAFO (14 sites) and Nitrate (142 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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).
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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 Table Rock
Everything above resolves to Table Rock as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 381 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 Table Rock Average
Table Rock Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Table Rock
- ●One soil character for all of Table Rock
- ●Frost dates read at Table Rock's scale: Apr 5 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Table Rock's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Table Rock
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Table Rock, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Table Rock averages can't show:
We read public map data around Table Rock — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Table Rock average
How we know this about Table Rock
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 Table Rock’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 Table Rock
When does frost risk typically end in Table Rock?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Table Rock 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 Table Rock?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Table Rock typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 214 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Table Rock?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Table Rock sees about 214 frost-free days — roughly Apr 5 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 26 to Oct 22, about 179 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Table Rock?
The federal record around Table Rock runs heavier than most — 455 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (204), the nearest Superfund record about 1.0 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 Table Rock?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Table Rock's scale — its 7a band and its 214-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Table Rock'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 Table Rock’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Table Rock's own scale — its own ~214-day season between 28°F freezes, the 381 acres it covers and 455 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Table Rock's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Table Rock's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 5 and Nov 5 and the ~214-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 455 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Table Rock, the closest Superfund record about 1.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Table Rock's boundary and the 381 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~214-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Table Rock's own centroid, the Northern PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Table Rocklydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Table Rock's 381 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Adams County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Adams 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 Adams County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Table Rock's 381 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Table Rock you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 381 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Superfund 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 Table Rock-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across PennsylvaniaTable Rock sits outside our named growing regions, so Pennsylvania as a whole is its closest context here.
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