Taylorstown, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, blackberry, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Taylorstown, 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 Taylorstown 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 Taylorstown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Taylorstown — the short answer
Taylorstown, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 194 days between hard freezes, across 676 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)
- Oct 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~194
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 676 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 Taylorstown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Taylorstown's 194-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Taylorstown
Each reading below is measured for Taylorstown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTaylorstown runs about 194 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
MeasuredTaylorstown 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 Taylorstown is in
Taylorstown sits in the Western Allegheny Plateau — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Taylorstown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Washington County.
What Grows in Taylorstown
Every plant below cleared Taylorstown's own zone 6b and its 194-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Taylorstown?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. 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 Oct 27 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even past midsummer there is room for a true fall garden here, and garlic planted near the close carries the momentum into next year.
Documented around Taylorstown
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Taylorstown, first recorded 2021. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Taylorstown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Taylorstown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- LANDSTARBrownfields · 2200 ft
- TAYLORSTOWN VOL FIRE DEPTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- BESL TRANSFUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- SUNSET AUTOMOTIVEBrownfields · 0.9 mi
- MCGUFFEY JR SR HIGH SCHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- FRANKS AUTO REPAIRBrownfields · 2.0 mi
- EARL B PETERSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- BUFFALO COMPRESSOR STATIONBrownfields · 2.6 mi
- CLAYSVILLE CTL OFCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- DISCOUNT TIRE CTRUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- CLAYSVILLE DONEGAL JT MUNI AUTHUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- CLAYSVILLE SVC STAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Taylorstown'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 Taylorstown.
Total Sites
365
within ~10 miles of Taylorstown
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Taylorstown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Taylorstown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Taylorstown, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 24 sites within ~10 miles of Taylorstown. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Taylorstown
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 Taylorstown
Everything above resolves to Taylorstown as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 676 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 Taylorstown Average
Taylorstown Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Taylorstown
- ●One soil character for all of Taylorstown
- ●Frost dates read at Taylorstown's scale: Apr 16 to Oct 27
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Taylorstown's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Taylorstown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Taylorstown, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Taylorstown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Taylorstown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Taylorstown average
How we know this about Taylorstown
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 Taylorstown’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 Taylorstown
When does frost risk typically end in Taylorstown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Taylorstown 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 Taylorstown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Taylorstown typically arrives around Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 13, so the watching starts about Sep 27 — about 194 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Taylorstown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Taylorstown sees about 194 frost-free days — roughly Apr 16 through Oct 27, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 7 to Oct 13, about 159 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Taylorstown?
The federal record around Taylorstown is a meaningful one — 365 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (184), the nearest Brownfields 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 Taylorstown?
From about Sep 27 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 Oct 27 (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 Oct 27. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Taylorstown's scale — its 6b band and its 194-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Taylorstown'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 Taylorstown’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Taylorstown's own scale — its own ~194-day season between 28°F freezes, the 676 acres it covers and 365 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Taylorstown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Taylorstown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 16 and Oct 27 and the ~194-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 365 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Taylorstown, the closest Brownfields record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Taylorstown's boundary and the 676 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~194-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Taylorstown's own centroid, the Western Allegheny PlateauUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Taylorstownlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Taylorstown's 676 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Washington County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Washington 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 Washington County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Taylorstown's 676 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Taylorstown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 676 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Taylorstown-wide figureread your own land →
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