Pulaski, Georgia, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pulaski, 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 Pulaski lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pulaski — the short answer
Pulaski, Georgia: USDA zone 8b, about 290 days between hard freezes, across 510 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 17
- Candler County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 4
- Candler County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~290
- Candler County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 510 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 Candler County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Pulaski's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pulaski's 290-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pulaski
Each reading below is measured for Pulaski itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsPulaski runs about 290 days between hard freezes (read from Candler County, the closest normal to Pulaski) — 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
MeasuredPulaski 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 Pulaski is in
Pulaski sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pulaski's own centroid rather than borrowed from Candler County.
What Grows in Pulaski
Every plant below cleared Pulaski's own zone 8b and its 290-day season. Each card opens that plant's Georgia profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pulaski?
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 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 4 — 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 Pulaski
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pulaski. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- OLD GAS STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Former Pulaski Gas StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- ZIP N FOOD #7Underground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- PULASKI GROCERY MARKETUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- EXCELSIOR ELECTRIC MEMBER CO-OPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- GA FC/CANDLER CO UNITUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- 30T004Nitrate · 2.4 mi
- MINIT MART #2Underground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- EXCELSIORUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- THE STORE AT REGISTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- FAST TRAKUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- NEW HOPE GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pulaski'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 Pulaski.
Total Sites
136
within ~10 miles of Pulaski
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pulaski
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pulaski
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pulaski, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 98 sites within ~10 miles of Pulaski. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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.
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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 Pulaski
Everything above resolves to Pulaski as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 510 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Candler 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 Pulaski Average
Pulaski Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Pulaski
- ●One soil character for all of Pulaski
- ●Frost dates read at Pulaski's scale: Feb 17 to Dec 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pulaski's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pulaski
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pulaski, Georgia — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pulaski averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pulaski — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pulaski average
How we know this about Pulaski
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 Candler 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 Pulaski
When does frost risk typically end in Pulaski?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pulaski typically lands around Feb 17, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Pulaski?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pulaski typically arrives around Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 20, so the watching starts about Nov 4 — about 290 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pulaski?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pulaski sees about 290 frost-free days — roughly Feb 17 through Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 10 to Nov 20, about 255 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pulaski?
The federal record around Pulaski is a meaningful one — 136 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (98), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Pulaski?
From about Nov 4 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pulaski's scale — its 8b band and its 290-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pulaski'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 Pulaski’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Pulaski's own scale — the 510 acres it covers and 136 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pulaski's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 136 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pulaski, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pulaski's boundary and the 510 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~290-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pulaski's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Pulaski has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Candler County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pulaski's 510 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Candler County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Candler 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 Candler County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Pulaski's 510 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pulaski you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 510 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Pulaski-wide figureread your own land →
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