Braswell, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Braswell, 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 Braswell lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Braswell — the short answer
Braswell, Georgia: USDA zone 8a, about 249 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 14
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~249
- 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 8a is Braswell's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Braswell's 249-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Braswell
Each reading below is measured for Braswell itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBraswell 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
MeasuredBraswell sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Braswell is in
Braswell sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Braswell's own centroid rather than borrowed from Paulding County.
What Grows in Braswell
Every plant below cleared Braswell's own zone 8a and its 249-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Braswell?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 14; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 14 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 18 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Braswell
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Braswell. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 06FF12Nitrate · 2300 ft
- ROCKMART WASTE OILSuperfund · 1.2 mi
- CAPS CORNER EZ SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- AT&TUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- SCOTTS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- NO FACILITY NAME GIVENUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- COOTS LAKE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- 05FF09Nitrate · 3.7 mi
- FT MCPHERSONUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- SUPER DELUXE INDUSTRIES INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- WESTSIDE RECYCLINGToxics Release Inventory · 4.3 mi
- EXPRESS STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Braswell'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 Braswell.
Total Sites
161
within ~10 miles of Braswell
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Braswell
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Braswell
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Braswell, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Braswell — Toxics Release Inventory (13 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (116 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.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Braswell
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 Braswell average
Your land is one point inside Braswell
Everything above resolves to Braswell 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 Braswell Average
Braswell Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Braswell
- ●One soil character for all of Braswell
- ●Frost dates read at Braswell's scale: Mar 14 to Nov 18
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Braswell's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Braswell
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Braswell, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Braswell averages can't show:
We read public map data around Braswell — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Braswell average
How we know this about Braswell
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 Braswell’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 Braswell
When does frost risk typically end in Braswell?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Braswell typically lands around Mar 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 Apr 4.
When is the first frost in Braswell?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Braswell typically arrives around Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 4, so the watching starts about Oct 19 — about 249 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Braswell?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Braswell sees about 249 frost-free days — roughly Mar 14 through Nov 18, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 4 to Nov 4, about 214 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Braswell?
The federal record around Braswell is a meaningful one — 161 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (116), the nearest Nitrate 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 Braswell?
From about Oct 19 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 18 (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 18. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Braswell's scale — its 8a band and its 249-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Braswell'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 Braswell’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Braswell's own scale — its own ~249-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,025 acres it covers and 161 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Braswell's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Braswell's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 14 and Nov 18 and the ~249-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 161 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Braswell, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Braswell's boundary and the 2,025 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~249-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Braswell's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Braswell's 2,025 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Paulding County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Paulding 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 Paulding County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Braswell's 2,025 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Braswell you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,025 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Braswell-wide figureread your own land →
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