Funston, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
These conditions suit artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Funston, 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 Funston 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 Funston — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Funston — the short answer
Funston, Georgia: USDA zone 9a, about 305 days between hard freezes, across 731 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 9
- Colquitt County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 11
- Colquitt County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~305
- Colquitt County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 731 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 Colquitt County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Funston's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Funston's 305-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Funston
Each reading below is measured for Funston itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsFunston runs about 305 days between hard freezes (read from Colquitt County, the closest normal to Funston) — 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
MeasuredFunston 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 Funston is in
Funston sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Funston's own centroid rather than borrowed from Colquitt County.
What Grows in Funston
Every plant below cleared Funston's own zone 9a and its 305-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Funston?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 12; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 11 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Funston
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Funston. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 14H010Nitrate · 2300 ft
- ALLENS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- C R JACKSON APIARIESUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 14H015Nitrate · 2.5 mi
- BOZEMAN GROUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- 14H002Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- 15H004Nitrate · 3.1 mi
- HILLTOP GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- SCRUGGS CONCRETE COUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- 15H033Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- 15H030Nitrate · 4.0 mi
- SUSIE QS #32Underground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Funston'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 Funston.
Total Sites
228
within ~10 miles of Funston
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
13 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Funston
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Funston
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Funston, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 146 sites within ~10 miles of Funston. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Funston
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 Funston average
Your land is one point inside Funston
Everything above resolves to Funston as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 731 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Colquitt 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 Funston Average
Funston Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Funston
- ●One soil character for all of Funston
- ●Frost dates read at Funston's scale: Feb 9 to Dec 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Funston's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Funston
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Funston, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Funston averages can't show:
We read public map data around Funston — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Funston average
How we know this about Funston
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 Colquitt 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 Funston
When does frost risk typically end in Funston?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Funston typically lands around Feb 9, 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 2.
When is the first frost in Funston?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Funston typically arrives around Dec 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 27, so the watching starts about Nov 11 — about 305 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Funston?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Funston sees about 305 frost-free days — roughly Feb 9 through Dec 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 2 to Nov 27, about 270 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Funston?
The federal record around Funston is a meaningful one — 228 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (146), 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 Funston?
From about Nov 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 Dec 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 Dec 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Funston's scale — its 9a band and its 305-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Funston'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 Funston’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Funston's own scale — the 731 acres it covers and 228 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Funston's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 228 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Funston, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Funston's boundary and the 731 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~305-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Funston's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Funston has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Colquitt County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Funston's 731 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Colquitt County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Colquitt 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 Colquitt County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Funston's 731 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Funston you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 731 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 Funston-wide figureread your own land →