Gumlog, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Gumlog, 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 Gumlog lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Gumlog — the short answer
Gumlog, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 270 days between hard freezes, across 9K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~270
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 9K 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 8b is Gumlog's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Gumlog's 270-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Gumlog
Each reading below is measured for Gumlog itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGumlog runs about 270 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredGumlog 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 Gumlog is in
Gumlog sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Gumlog's own centroid rather than borrowed from Franklin County.
What Grows in Gumlog
Every plant below cleared Gumlog's own zone 8b and its 270-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Gumlog?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Gumlog
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Gumlog. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TUGALO CORNERSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- GUMLOG TRADING POSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- HILLBILLY GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- PORT BASS DEVELOPINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- LAKE HARTWELL STATE PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- DADSUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- TITAN STEEL DOOR LLCBrownfields · 2.9 mi
- LINDE+WIEMANNToxics Release Inventory · 2.9 mi
- HAERING PRECISION USA LPBrownfields · 3.0 mi
- STUMPYSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- 21KK01Nitrate · 3.2 mi
- LATEXCO, LLCToxics Release Inventory · 3.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Gumlog'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 Gumlog.
Total Sites
126
within ~10 miles of Gumlog
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Gumlog
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Gumlog
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Gumlog, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Gumlog — Toxics Release Inventory (11 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (94 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Gumlog
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 Gumlog average
Your land is one point inside Gumlog
Everything above resolves to Gumlog as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 9K 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 Gumlog Average
Gumlog Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Gumlog
- ●One soil character for all of Gumlog
- ●Frost dates read at Gumlog's scale: Mar 6 to Dec 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Gumlog's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Gumlog
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Gumlog, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Gumlog averages can't show:
We read public map data around Gumlog — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Gumlog average
How we know this about Gumlog
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 Gumlog’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 Gumlog
When does frost risk typically end in Gumlog?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Gumlog typically lands around Mar 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Gumlog?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Gumlog typically arrives around Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 17, so the watching starts about Nov 1 — about 270 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Gumlog?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Gumlog sees about 270 frost-free days — roughly Mar 6 through Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 27 to Nov 17, about 235 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Gumlog?
The federal record around Gumlog is a meaningful one — 126 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (94), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Gumlog?
From about Nov 1 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Gumlog's scale — its 8b band and its 270-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Gumlog'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 Gumlog’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Gumlog's own scale — its own ~270-day season between 28°F freezes, the 8,629 acres it covers and 126 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Gumlog's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Gumlog's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 6 and Dec 1 and the ~270-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 126 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Gumlog, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Gumlog's boundary and the 8,629 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~270-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Gumlog's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Gumlog's 8,629 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Franklin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Franklin 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 Franklin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Gumlog's 8,629 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Gumlog you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 8,629 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.6 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 Gumlog-wide figureread your own land →
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