Tresckow, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Expect cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Tresckow, 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 Tresckow lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Tresckow — the short answer
Tresckow, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 6b, about 198 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Oct 28
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~198
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Tresckow's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tresckow's 198-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tresckow
Each reading below is measured for Tresckow itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredTresckow runs about 198 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
MeasuredTresckow 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 Tresckow is in
Tresckow sits in the Ridge and Valley — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Tresckow's own centroid rather than borrowed from Carbon County.
What Grows in Tresckow
Every plant below cleared Tresckow's own zone 6b and its 198-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tresckow?
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 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Oct 28 — 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 Tresckow
Spotted lanternfly documented 2 miles from Tresckow, first recorded 2019. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Tresckow
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tresckow. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- KLINE TOWNSHIP MUN AUTHORITYPFAS · 25 ft
- LARRYS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- TJS AUTOBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- MARK LINE INDS INCBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- ITG CIGARSToxics Release Inventory · 1.1 mi
- LU 414Nitrate · 1.2 mi
- HAULMARK INDUSTRIES INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.3 mi
- ROADWAYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- HAZLETON OIL & ENVUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- HAZLETON OIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL INCBrownfields · 1.4 mi
- QUALITY BEVERAGE DISTR OF HAZLETONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.4 mi
- HAZLETON PAINTING COBrownfields · 1.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tresckow'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 Tresckow.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tresckow
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tresckow
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tresckow, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Tresckow — Toxics Release Inventory (50 sites) and PFAS (6 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Tresckow
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 Tresckow average
Your land is one point inside Tresckow
Everything above resolves to Tresckow as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Tresckow Average
Tresckow Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Tresckow
- ●One soil character for all of Tresckow
- ●Frost dates read at Tresckow's scale: Apr 13 to Oct 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tresckow's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tresckow
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tresckow, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tresckow averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tresckow — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tresckow average
How we know this about Tresckow
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 Tresckow’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 Tresckow
When does frost risk typically end in Tresckow?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tresckow typically lands around Apr 13, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Tresckow?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tresckow typically arrives around Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 14, so the watching starts about Sep 28 — about 198 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tresckow?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tresckow sees about 198 frost-free days — roughly Apr 13 through Oct 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer May 4 to Oct 14, about 163 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tresckow?
The federal record around Tresckow runs heavier than most — 569 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (323), the nearest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile 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 Tresckow?
From about Sep 28 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tresckow's scale — its 6b band and its 198-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tresckow'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 Tresckow’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Tresckow's own scale — its own ~198-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,140 acres it covers and 569 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tresckow's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Tresckow's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 13 and Oct 28 and the ~198-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 569 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tresckow, the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tresckow's boundary and the 1,140 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~198-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tresckow's own centroid, the Ridge and ValleyUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Tresckowlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tresckow's 1,140 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Carbon County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Carbon 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 Carbon County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tresckow's 1,140 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tresckow you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,140 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest PFAS record under a tenth of a mile 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 Tresckow-wide figureread your own land →
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