Pleasant Groves, Alabama, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pleasant Groves, 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 Pleasant Groves lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pleasant Groves — the short answer
Pleasant Groves, Alabama: USDA zone 7b, about 237 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~237
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Pleasant Groves's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pleasant Groves's 237-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pleasant Groves
Each reading below is measured for Pleasant Groves itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPleasant Groves runs about 237 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
MeasuredPleasant Groves 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 Pleasant Groves is in
Pleasant Groves sits in the Southwestern Appalachians — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pleasant Groves's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jackson County.
What Grows in Pleasant Groves
Every plant below cleared Pleasant Groves's own zone 7b and its 237-day season. Each card opens that plant's Alabama profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pleasant Groves?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Pleasant Groves
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pleasant Groves. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- MCALLISTER GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- LETCHER GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- WOODVILLE HIGH SCHOOLBrownfields · 4.3 mi
- PAT OLINGER SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- MORRIS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- HOLMAN GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- HILL'S CABINET SHOPBrownfields · 5.9 mi
- JOHNSONS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- NORTH ALABAMA ELECTRIC COOPERATIVEUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- CUMBERLAND MOUNTAIN WATERPFAS · 6.1 mi
- JACKSON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITYPFAS · 6.1 mi
- SKYLINE AUTO PARTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pleasant Groves'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 Pleasant Groves.
Total Sites
61
within ~10 miles of Pleasant Groves
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pleasant Groves
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pleasant Groves
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pleasant Groves, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Pleasant Groves — Superfund (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (45 sites). 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.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
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Your land is one point inside Pleasant Groves
Everything above resolves to Pleasant Groves as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Pleasant Groves Average
Pleasant Groves Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Pleasant Groves
- ●One soil character for all of Pleasant Groves
- ●Frost dates read at Pleasant Groves's scale: Mar 19 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pleasant Groves's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pleasant Groves
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pleasant Groves, Alabama — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pleasant Groves averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pleasant Groves — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pleasant Groves average
How we know this about Pleasant Groves
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 Pleasant Groves’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 Pleasant Groves
When does frost risk typically end in Pleasant Groves?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pleasant Groves typically lands around Mar 19, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Pleasant Groves?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pleasant Groves typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 237 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pleasant Groves?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pleasant Groves sees about 237 frost-free days — roughly Mar 19 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 9 to Oct 28, about 202 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pleasant Groves?
The federal record around Pleasant Groves is a meaningful one — 61 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (45), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 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 Pleasant Groves?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pleasant Groves's scale — its 7b band and its 237-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pleasant Groves'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 Pleasant Groves’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Pleasant Groves's own scale — its own ~237-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,333 acres it covers and 61 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pleasant Groves's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pleasant Groves's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 19 and Nov 11 and the ~237-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 61 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pleasant Groves, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pleasant Groves's boundary and the 2,333 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~237-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pleasant Groves's own centroid, the Southwestern AppalachiansUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pleasant Groves's 2,333 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jackson County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jackson County
- The growing challenges every Alabama grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Alabama
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Jackson County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pleasant Groves's 2,333 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pleasant Groves you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,333 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 1.3 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 Pleasant Groves-wide figureread your own land →
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