Village Green-Green Ridge, Pennsylvania, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, 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 Village Green-Green Ridge, 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 Village Green-Green Ridge lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Village Green-Green Ridge — the short answer
Village Green-Green Ridge, Pennsylvania: USDA zone 7b, about 249 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~249
- 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 7b is Village Green-Green Ridge's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Village Green-Green Ridge's 249-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Village Green-Green Ridge
Each reading below is measured for Village Green-Green Ridge itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredVillage Green-Green Ridge runs about 249 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
MeasuredVillage Green-Green Ridge sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Village Green-Green Ridge is in
Village Green-Green Ridge sits in the Northern Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Village Green-Green Ridge's own centroid rather than borrowed from Delaware County.
What Grows in Village Green-Green Ridge
Every plant below cleared Village Green-Green Ridge's own zone 7b and its 249-day season. Each card opens that plant's Pennsylvania profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Village Green-Green Ridge?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 24 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
Documented around Village Green-Green Ridge
Spotted lanternfly documented 3 miles from Village Green-Green Ridge, first recorded 2018. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Village Green-Green Ridge
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Village Green-Green Ridge. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- VICTORY CLEANERSBrownfields · 600 ft
- WAWA 8027Underground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- WAWA FOOD MKT NO 8027Brownfields · 850 ft
- CVS PHARMACY #0828Brownfields · 1200 ft
- GIANT FOOD STORE 6655Underground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- KLEEN KAR CARWASHUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- 240 PENNELL RDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- SUNOCO 0004 6797Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- ASTON TWP GARAGE BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- FAMILY DOLLAR STORE NO 2884Brownfields · 1300 ft
- DE 402Nitrate · 1700 ft
- MOBIL OIL 16 DKBUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Village Green-Green Ridge'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 Village Green-Green Ridge.
Total Sites
2,546
within ~10 miles of Village Green-Green Ridge
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
36 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Village Green-Green Ridge
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Village Green-Green Ridge
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Village Green-Green Ridge, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 36 sites within ~10 miles of Village Green-Green Ridge. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Village Green-Green Ridge
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 Village Green-Green Ridge average
Your land is one point inside Village Green-Green Ridge
Everything above resolves to Village Green-Green Ridge 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 Village Green-Green Ridge Average
Village Green-Green Ridge Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Village Green-Green Ridge
- ●One soil character for all of Village Green-Green Ridge
- ●Frost dates read at Village Green-Green Ridge's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 24
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Village Green-Green Ridge's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Village Green-Green Ridge
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Village Green-Green Ridge, Pennsylvania — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Village Green-Green Ridge averages can't show:
We read public map data around Village Green-Green Ridge — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Village Green-Green Ridge average
How we know this about Village Green-Green Ridge
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 Village Green-Green Ridge’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 Village Green-Green Ridge
When does frost risk typically end in Village Green-Green Ridge?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Village Green-Green Ridge typically lands around Mar 20, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Village Green-Green Ridge?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Village Green-Green Ridge typically arrives around Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 10, so the watching starts about Oct 25 — about 249 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Village Green-Green Ridge?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Village Green-Green Ridge sees about 249 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 24, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Nov 10, about 214 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Village Green-Green Ridge?
The federal record around Village Green-Green Ridge runs heavier than most — 2,546 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (1,124), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Village Green-Green Ridge?
From about Oct 25 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 24 (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 24. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Village Green-Green Ridge's scale — its 7b band and its 249-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Village Green-Green Ridge'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 Village Green-Green Ridge’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Village Green-Green Ridge's own scale — its own ~249-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,225 acres it covers and 2,546 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Village Green-Green Ridge's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Village Green-Green Ridge's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 24 and the ~249-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,546 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Village Green-Green Ridge, the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Village Green-Green Ridge's boundary and the 1,225 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~249-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Village Green-Green Ridge's own centroid, the Northern PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- A documented spotted-lanternfly record within reach of Village Green-Green Ridgelydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Village Green-Green Ridge's 1,225 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Delaware County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Delaware 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 Delaware County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Village Green-Green Ridge's 1,225 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Village Green-Green Ridge you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,225 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.1 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 Village Green-Green Ridge-wide figureread your own land →
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