Moreland, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Moreland, 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 Moreland 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 Moreland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Moreland — the short answer
Moreland, Georgia: USDA zone 8a, about 246 days between hard freezes, across 578 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 15
- Coweta County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 16
- Coweta County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~246
- Coweta County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 578 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 Coweta County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Moreland's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Moreland's 246-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Moreland
Each reading below is measured for Moreland itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsMoreland runs about 246 days between hard freezes (read from Coweta County, the closest normal to Moreland) — 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
MeasuredMoreland 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 Moreland is in
Moreland sits in the Piedmont — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Moreland's own centroid rather than borrowed from Coweta County.
What Grows in Moreland
Every plant below cleared Moreland's own zone 8a and its 246-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Moreland?
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 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 16 — 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 Moreland
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Moreland. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CURETON COLE COMPANY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 150 ft
- RANDALL REALTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- NIFTY FOODSUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- MORELAND SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- DEPARTMEMT OF TRANSPORTATION #10Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC ? CSG1Brownfields · 1.7 mi
- NEWNAN-COWETA COUNTY AIRPORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- PILOT TRAVEL CENTER #422Underground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- SECOND STEP ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICESBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- COWETA CO FIRE STATION #4Underground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- DAYS INN B/PUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Moreland'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 Moreland.
Total Sites
316
within ~10 miles of Moreland
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
4 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Moreland
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Moreland
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Moreland, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Moreland — Toxics Release Inventory (29 sites) and PFAS (3 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.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Moreland
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 Moreland
Everything above resolves to Moreland as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 578 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Coweta County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’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 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 Moreland Average
Moreland Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Moreland
- ●One soil character for all of Moreland
- ●Frost dates read at Moreland's scale: Mar 15 to Nov 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Moreland's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Moreland
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Moreland, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Moreland averages can't show:
We read public map data around Moreland — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Moreland average
How we know this about Moreland
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 Coweta 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 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 Moreland
When does frost risk typically end in Moreland?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Moreland typically lands around Mar 15, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Moreland?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Moreland typically arrives around Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 2, so the watching starts about Oct 17 — about 246 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Moreland?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Moreland sees about 246 frost-free days — roughly Mar 15 through Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 5 to Nov 2, about 211 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Moreland?
The federal record around Moreland is a meaningful one — 316 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (214), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Moreland?
From about Oct 17 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Moreland's scale — its 8a band and its 246-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Moreland'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 Moreland’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Moreland's own scale — the 578 acres it covers and 316 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Moreland's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 316 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Moreland, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Moreland's boundary and the 578 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~246-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Moreland's own centroid, the PiedmontUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Moreland has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Coweta County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Moreland's 578 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Coweta County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Coweta 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 Coweta County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Moreland's 578 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Moreland you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 578 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Moreland-wide figureread your own land →
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