Edge Hill, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, fig, 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 Edge Hill, 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 Edge Hill 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 Edge Hill — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Edge Hill — the short answer
Edge Hill, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 272 days between hard freezes, across 118 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 1
- Glascock County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 28
- Glascock County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~272
- Glascock County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 118 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 Glascock County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Edge Hill's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Edge Hill's 272-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Edge Hill
Each reading below is measured for Edge Hill itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsEdge Hill runs about 272 days between hard freezes (read from Glascock County, the closest normal to Edge Hill) — 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
MeasuredEdge Hill sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Edge Hill is in
Edge Hill sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Edge Hill's own centroid rather than borrowed from Glascock County.
What Grows in Edge Hill
Every plant below cleared Edge Hill's own zone 8b and its 272-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Edge Hill?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 28 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Edge Hill
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Edge Hill. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 18Z003Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- 25Z006Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- 25Z002Nitrate · 5.3 mi
- 25Z001Nitrate · 6.1 mi
- WILLIAMS SVC STATION/EXXON STATIUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
- BLUEGRASS TREATED WOOD LLCBrownfields · 6.3 mi
- BLUEGRASS TREATED WOOD LLCToxics Release Inventory · 6.3 mi
- 25Y001Nitrate · 6.7 mi
- 24AA02Nitrate · 7.5 mi
- GA DOT #10291 STAPLETON MAINT HQUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.9 mi
- MCGAHEE FARMS INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.9 mi
- D S HILLMAN STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 9.9 mi
Measured from Edge Hill'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 Edge Hill.
Total Sites
18
within ~10 miles of Edge Hill
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Edge Hill
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Edge Hill
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in Edge Hill
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 Edge Hill average
Your land is one point inside Edge Hill
Everything above resolves to Edge Hill as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 118 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Glascock County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’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 city 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 Edge Hill Average
Edge Hill Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Edge Hill
- ●One soil character for all of Edge Hill
- ●Frost dates read at Edge Hill's scale: Mar 1 to Nov 28
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Edge Hill's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Edge Hill
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Edge Hill, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Edge Hill averages can't show:
We read public map data around Edge Hill — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Edge Hill average
How we know this about Edge Hill
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Glascock 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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Edge Hill
When does frost risk typically end in Edge Hill?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Edge Hill typically lands around Mar 1, 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 22.
When is the first frost in Edge Hill?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Edge Hill typically arrives around Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 14, so the watching starts about Oct 29 — about 272 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Edge Hill?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Edge Hill sees about 272 frost-free days — roughly Mar 1 through Nov 28, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 22 to Nov 14, about 237 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Edge Hill?
The federal record around Edge Hill is light — 18 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (12), the nearest Nitrate record about 1.7 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Edge Hill?
From about Oct 29 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 28 (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 28. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Edge Hill's scale — its 8b band and its 272-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Edge Hill'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 Edge Hill’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Edge Hill's own scale — the 118 acres it covers and 18 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Edge Hill's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 18 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Edge Hill, the closest Nitrate record about 1.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Edge Hill's boundary and the 118 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~272-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Edge Hill's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Edge Hill has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Glascock County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Edge Hill's 118 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Glascock County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Glascock 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 Glascock County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Edge Hill's 118 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Edge Hill you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 118 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 1.7 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 Edge Hill-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across GeorgiaEdge Hill sits outside our named growing regions, so Georgia as a whole is its closest context here.