Argyle, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
A short list that earns its place here — artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Argyle, 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 Argyle lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Argyle — the short answer
Argyle, Georgia: USDA zone 9a, about 291 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 14
- Clinch County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 2
- Clinch County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~291
- Clinch County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 1K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Clinch County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Argyle's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Argyle's 291-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Argyle
Each reading below is measured for Argyle itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsArgyle runs about 291 days between hard freezes (read from Clinch County, the closest normal to Argyle) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredArgyle sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
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 Argyle is in
Argyle sits in the Southern Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Argyle's own centroid rather than borrowed from Clinch County.
What Grows in Argyle
Every plant below cleared Argyle's own zone 9a and its 291-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Argyle?
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 Jan 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Argyle
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Argyle. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- ARGYLE FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- ARNOLDS GAS & GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- BARLOW CREOSOTINGSuperfund · 2.8 mi
- MANOR TIMBER CO INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 3.0 mi
- MANOR TIMBER CO INC.Brownfields · 3.0 mi
- ROWELLS GAS & GROCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- AMMONS GAS & GROCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- SOLAR FOODUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- WARE COUNTY MAGNET SCHOOLUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- MOORES COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- GDOT FACILITY EDS00-0084-00(023) 422120 (PARCEL 86)Underground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- B & M WOOD PRODUCTS INCToxics Release Inventory · 5.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Argyle'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 Argyle.
Total Sites
66
within ~10 miles of Argyle
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Argyle
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Argyle
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Argyle, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Argyle — Superfund (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (48 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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.
Check your specific parcel in Argyle
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 Argyle average
Your land is one point inside Argyle
Everything above resolves to Argyle as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Clinch County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 Argyle Average
Argyle Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Argyle
- ●One soil character for all of Argyle
- ●Frost dates read at Argyle's scale: Feb 14 to Dec 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Argyle's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Argyle
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Argyle, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Argyle averages can't show:
We read public map data around Argyle — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Argyle average
How we know this about Argyle
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 Clinch County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 Argyle
When does frost risk typically end in Argyle?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Argyle typically lands around Feb 14, 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 Mar 7.
When is the first frost in Argyle?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Argyle typically arrives around Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 18, so the watching starts about Nov 2 — about 291 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Argyle?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Argyle sees about 291 frost-free days — roughly Feb 14 through Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 7 to Nov 18, about 256 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Argyle?
The federal record around Argyle is a meaningful one — 66 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (48), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Argyle?
From about Nov 2 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 Dec 2 (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 Dec 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Argyle's scale — its 9a band and its 291-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Argyle'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 Argyle’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Argyle's own scale — the 1,100 acres it covers and 66 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Argyle's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 66 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Argyle, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Argyle's boundary and the 1,100 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~291-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Argyle's own centroid, the Southern Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Argyle has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Clinch County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Argyle's 1,100 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Clinch County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Clinch County
- The growing challenges every Georgia grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Georgia
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Clinch County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Argyle's 1,100 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Argyle you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,100 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Argyle-wide figureread your own land →
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