Cherry Log, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Among the crops suited to this profile: cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Cherry Log, 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 Cherry Log lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Cherry Log — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Cherry Log — the short answer
Cherry Log, Georgia: USDA zone 7b, about 232 days between hard freezes, across 726 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~232
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 726 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 Cherry Log's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Cherry Log's 232-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Cherry Log
Each reading below is measured for Cherry Log itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredCherry Log runs about 232 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
MeasuredCherry Log 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 Cherry Log is in
Cherry Log sits in the Blue Ridge — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Cherry Log's own centroid rather than borrowed from Gilmer County.
What Grows in Cherry Log
Every plant below cleared Cherry Log's own zone 7b and its 232-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Cherry Log?
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 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 23 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Cherry Log
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Cherry Log. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 10NN18Nitrate · 850 ft
- FANNIN REGIONAL HOSPITALUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- ASH FOOD MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- ACT FOUR INC. (FORMERLY ZYVAX, INC.)Toxics Release Inventory · 3.5 mi
- MASON TRACTOR COBrownfields · 4.1 mi
- RICHARDSON COUNTRY MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- TVA BLUE RIDGE HYDRO PLANTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- GARRETTS TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- TOCCOA WORK CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- KISMET PRODUCTSUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- MOUNTAIN VALLEY MOTORS BODY SHOPBrownfields · 5.6 mi
- KAYE'S AUTO PARTS INCBrownfields · 5.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Cherry Log'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 Cherry Log.
Total Sites
88
within ~10 miles of Cherry Log
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Cherry Log
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Cherry Log
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Cherry Log, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Cherry Log — Toxics Release Inventory (7 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (56 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Cherry Log
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Cherry Log
Everything above resolves to Cherry Log as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 726 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 Cherry Log Average
Cherry Log Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Cherry Log
- ●One soil character for all of Cherry Log
- ●Frost dates read at Cherry Log's scale: Mar 23 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Cherry Log's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Cherry Log
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Cherry Log, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Cherry Log averages can't show:
We read public map data around Cherry Log — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Cherry Log average
How we know this about Cherry Log
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 Cherry Log’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 Cherry Log
When does frost risk typically end in Cherry Log?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Cherry Log typically lands around Mar 23, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Cherry Log?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Cherry Log typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 232 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Cherry Log?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Cherry Log sees about 232 frost-free days — roughly Mar 23 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 13 to Oct 27, about 197 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Cherry Log?
The federal record around Cherry Log is a meaningful one — 88 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (56), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.2 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 Cherry Log?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Cherry Log's scale — its 7b band and its 232-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Cherry Log'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 Cherry Log’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Cherry Log's own scale — its own ~232-day season between 28°F freezes, the 726 acres it covers and 88 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Cherry Log's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Cherry Log's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 23 and Nov 10 and the ~232-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 88 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Cherry Log, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Cherry Log's boundary and the 726 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~232-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Cherry Log's own centroid, the Blue RidgeUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Cherry Log's 726 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Gilmer County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Gilmer 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 Gilmer County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Cherry Log's 726 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Cherry Log you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 726 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 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 Cherry Log-wide figureread your own land →